Home audio & video: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs?
- 3/7/08 11:37 AM
VCR
by Kees Bakker - 3/12/08 3:24 AM
In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
In fact, it's a quite new VCR. I bought it December last year as a Christmas present for myself and my wife, because the old was breaking down and becoming unusable.
I hope it will keep working for 10 years or so, like the previous one.
Kees
DVR
by DesertDweller - 3/13/08 1:47 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I record to DVR. If a show's a keeper, I then record to PC, where I can store it permanantly or copy to DVD if I choose.
I do everything on PC. My DVR's hooked up to my PC, which is what I use to watch tv. So, my setup's heavenly. Everything I need all in one easy-to-use setup.
use PC for TV recording
by blacksharkL82 - 3/15/08 6:19 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use my HP m9000t.
Windows media center, TV guide, find the show I want to record and click on it. When the new page comes up, click record. Click off that screen and resume what I was doing.
Realy simple.
Windows Media Center!!!
by mkaz91 - 3/15/08 7:30 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
With Windows Media Center, I can watch, pause, rewind, and record any TV program I want (I know, I sound like and ad). It's all saved straight to my computer, where I can access it on my TV any time I want. Also, with Media Center, I can play music and home videos stored on my computer on my TV. I think Windows Media Center (Vista Edition) is one of Microsoft's best technologies, but their most under-hyped.
TiVo (How’s that working out for you?)
by psiddle - 3/15/08 8:11 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use the TiVo Series 2 thru basic cable (Comcast) and absolutely love it. Can't imagine doing anything else.
How Do You Record TV Programs
by jack5226 - 3/15/08 9:06 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Through stand alone VCR recorders.
DVR through Dish network
by dinox64 - 3/15/08 2:02 PM In reply to: How Do You Record TV Programs by jack5226Could not live without any type of DVR system.
DVD and VCRs
by davanzo - 3/15/08 6:42 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
4 VCRs (they each have their purpose, though one in a pair records off air while the other plays) + 1 DVD recorder - Toshiba D-VR5SU. The Toshiba has some undocumented quirks which have to be discovered and occasionally will just stop on a frame during playback. The only way to get back to where you were that I've found is to restart and quickly skip over the problem frame.
We use DISH (like TIVO) and we love it
by arminfields - 3/15/08 7:27 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
DISH is satellite TV that provides a free DVR amd all we pay for is the programming.
We can record two programs at once, save 100 hours of recorded programs, never watch commercials by clicking through the program (and not watch 20 minutes of prime-time ads), and easily set timers for everything we want to see.
We love our DISH and will never go back to regular TV
Armin
MCPC
by thenunz - 3/16/08 8:44 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a media center pc running mediaportal
Got it down to a nice combo system...
by SWLinPHX - 3/24/08 3:53 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I originally purchased the cutting edge Toshiba RD-X2 in 2003 (was over $700 at the time). It included an 80 GB hard drive and DVD burner with a multitude of editing features and VCR Plus system.
A couple years later I got their updated RD-XS34, which much faster processor, burner and double the hard drive space. It also replaced the antiquated VCR Plus with TV Guide OnScreen, for a nice user interface for recording scheduled programming without manually programming and including all recorded show information.
A couple years after that, I ended up going with my cable company (Cox) DVR as well. I dropped a program tier and switched it for my regular digital box, so the cost increase was only about $5/month. I like it for simple recording that I am most likely to erase, and it has the dual tuner.
I still have all three hooked together, along with my old VCR. Anything on videocassette or the Cox DVR can be easily transferred to one of the Toshiba recorders, edited, and saved to DVD-R.
TiVo!
by jenniferrolson - 6/4/08 12:14 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
We LOVE our TiVo! For awhile we also had a DVR through our cable company, but it was a piece of junk compared to our TiVo. It is incredibly user-friendly, and the menus are easy to navigate - even our 8-yr-old has no trouble. It connects wirelessly to our home network, and we can pop online to schedule a recording if we aren't in the house. With their TiVo Desktop software, I can transfer any recordings to my computer and convert them to a variety of formats for my iPod or PC. I even taken some educational programs (e.g. Discovery channel), edited out the commercials or the segments I didn't want, and used them in my classes. That has a been a helpful and easy to use feature that wasn't possible with the cable company's DVR.
The only problem....we about to purchase an HDTV, and our current TiVo is a Series 2 DT (not HD). But that upgrade may have to wait a bit.....
Tivo
by Clarkhill37 - 6/4/08 3:39 PM In reply to: TiVo! by jenniferrolsonWe would love to have a Tivo Hd unit to go with our HDTV. However, we have been told that our Hughes internet satellite service will not work well with Tivo. We have no choice of DSL or Cable because of our remote location. There is something wrong when we can't buy an HD hard drive recorder other than Tivo to replace our Panasonic DMR-E85H.
Stand alond DVD recorder and occasionally the VCR
by dpgray1962 - 6/11/08 10:35 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you record your favorite TV programs? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have the older Panasonic DMR-E155 if I recall the model # right (about 3.5 years old now) so it has the analog tuner in it, no HD, no Firewire either but does have progressive out and S-video amongst the outputs and can take in 3 external sources and I love it and it will record to RAM and DVD-R only, but will playback most other formats though. The newer ones allow one to use the other formats to record to, which I'd have preferred but oh well.
I use it for both TV recording and for capturing vinyl tracks from my turntable and then use the finalized DVD to rip them to my computer and then edit/clean up from there.
However, I'm not on cable, nor satellite so it's off air and if I stay off air, it's a set top box for sure as both still work fine for now. My living room TV will be a new HD LCD.
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