PVR to DVD Burner

gluegirl2000gluegirl2000 Illinois
edited November 2004 in Hardware
Newbie here! I don't know if this has already been asked, and I haven't spent the time to read thru every page to see (lazy girl??!). Here's what I'd like to do and what I have to work with. Please bear in mind that my noncomputer literate man will need to operate it and I'd like to do this as inexpensively as possible without compromising quality...

I've got the DVR set up from Dish Network. I'd like like to be able to burn shows onto DVD for personal use and be able to edit out commercials and whatnot. I've been holding off on getting a DVD burner as I knew the price would be dropping and the write speeds increasing. I've been eyeing the Raedon All In Wonder set up as well. I know I'll have to increase hard drive size, but I need that anyway.

Will this work or am I smoking crack? Is this the best way to go about this? Is going with a +/- burner worth it or is one format going to make the other obsolete? Are there questions I've forgotten to ask?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited May 2004
    I'm not quite sure what you want to do here... If you want to burn TV shows to DVD, the best (well, easiest) thing to do may be to just build a system with a large hard drive (or array of hard drives...) a dvd burner, and either an ATi AIW card or a PCI TV tuner card...
  • gluegirl2000gluegirl2000 Illinois
    edited May 2004
    I guess I wasn't clear, you'll get used to that.

    Since we have the DVR system to record stuff strictly off the satellite, I was told the best way to get it off there and onto DVD was the way I had outlined.

    This way, we utilze the existing satellite system and just burn when I have time to sit and edit.

    Clear as mud?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited May 2004
    Hmm... but how would you get it off the DVR and onto something with a DVD burner? Do they make standalone DVD burners now that you can hook up to your TV or something? I honestly haven't really looked into it, so...
  • gluegirl2000gluegirl2000 Illinois
    edited May 2004
    From what had been explained to my, that's where the Raedon comes in. Drop a line from the DVR (tivo knock off) to the Raedon, edit then burn. The DVR would be like an external hard drive.

    It almost seemed to simple to work, hence the reason I doubted it.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited May 2004
    I don't have an AIW Radeon, nor have I played with one, but I don't *think* they have video capture capabilities. If they do, then what you're talking about should be possible, but the way it would work is that you'd have to have the PVR play back the show, and have the AIW capture it, and then burn it. If they don't, you'll have to get a video capture card.

    But, if you got just the AIW radeon and an extra hard drive (one for your OS/software, one for recording), you could just record the shows to the hard drive on your computer and burn them from there, without ever having to deal with the PVR.
  • cltaylor12cltaylor12 San Jose, CA
    edited November 2004
    I'd have an interest in going from my Satellite Dish PVR to an external DVD Burner as well as sending VHS to a reputable external DVD Burner (are there USB external burners?) I have no more room on/within my pc to add devices, so I would definately have to go with USB.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Didn't really understand the posts but fwiw, the ATi All-In-Wonder does video capture (I believe it can do the same thing as the TiVo). I've never used one but I believe so I don't know if it actually encodes the video after recording the stream. If it doesn't, that would be a another process. If it does, you can choose if you want to burn to a dvd for viewing later on a normal dvd player or if you just want to burn so you could watch it later on on the PC.
    cltaylor12 wrote:
    I'd have an interest in going from my Satellite Dish PVR to an external DVD Burner as well as sending VHS to a reputable external DVD Burner (are there USB external burners?) I have no more room on/within my pc to add devices, so I would definately have to go with USB.
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  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited November 2004
    GG with the ati AIW you no longer need the dvr from dish network. With sufficient hard drive space the aiw can do all that the dvr can. As for what your asking what you will need.,

    AIW card or video capture card of some type.
    Large hard drive space.
    Dvd burner.

    You will need to connect the dvr to the aiw and play it will recording it to the pc. Then from the pc you can edit it and what not. You wont be able to just transfer the video over. You will have to play it to the pc. Thats why I say you wont need the dvr anymore, you can just hook the dish network box to the pc and skip the dvr middle man...

    clear as mud?

    What part of ill. I used to live in galesburg.. yes im a hick...

    Gobbles
  • cltaylor12cltaylor12 San Jose, CA
    edited November 2004
    Black Hawk and Gobbles,

    CooL!

    I'll check into this!

    Christine
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