paulr

Anyone recommend one under 200 ish allowing you to record 10-15 hours of tv.
Once you have it on the hard disc can you edit it and transfer it onto a dvd?

cheers
Paul.

GC8

Hauppauge PVR150 will do this; most hard disk recorders dont enable you to export the video streams (that Ive seen). It has a hardware MPEG encoder so the video quality is excellent. Assuming you dont have a DVD writer already; itll cost you about £80 to do this, you cant go wrong. Unless you want to record DVB in which case its easier to use a WinTV Nova (which's a 'freeview' TV card; you can use the PVR but you have a Freeview box able to output S-Video); as DVB is broadcast in MPEG2 it just writes to disk without processing it so the quality is exactly the same as broadcast.

Simon

jbryant

I know this blows the budget but for £300 the Panasonic DVR allows you to record on 80gb hard disk, perform basic editing (chop ads, splits, etc) and then burn hi-speed to inbuilt DVD-R using built-in software to auto-create fancy menus. I picked one up from Richer sounds for £299 multiregion as I couldn't be arsed messing around with transferring TV stuff to my PC to edit/record. Link here http://ws4.richersounds.com/showprod...id=PANA-DMRE85
I'm chuffed to bits with it and even the wife loves it

Most of the cheaper digital video recorder/freeview combo boxes that go for £150-£200 have limited or no edit capabilities. I was looking at these for ages (eg. Digifusion FVRT150 from Argos) but decided if there was no archive I'm be constantly juggling data and deleting stuff I'd prefer to keep on a cheapy 20p DVD-R. Excellent comparison of all the PVR recorders right about here http://www.emsee.co.uk/pvr/

Check out the Digital Video Recorder Forums on www.digitalspy.com for waaaay more information than could possibly be good for you. You'll need to register to search but you can browse without registration.

Hope this helps
Julian

paulr

Thanks.At the moment i'm just trying to sort out what i want.

cheers
Paul.

Chip

Pioneer DVR 420. Excellent.

Chip

paulr

I think all i need is something to record up to 15 hours HQ tv and with an output to then transfer to my dvd recorder if i need to save.

Dont need a built in recorder.
Preferably under £200.