General DVR advice

 

Anonymous
I live in New Zealand and we don't have Replay TV etc however I want to know which DVR you recommend for recording TV. Can the hard drive be upgraded?
Is the image better than say recording to a computer with a top video card?
Thanks in advance for your help.
 

Bronze Member
Username: Tonytiger

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Post Number: 44
Registered: Feb-04
I have two Panasonic DMR series one in 40 gig and one in 80 gig. There was an article in a computer monthly magazine titled "Hacking TiVO". But to do so on a new unit will definitely void any warranty. If you found a used one on ebay or somewhere, you might want to research the hack. IF you come up blank I can look through my "magazine ripped out page archive" but that's a manual process. I think it was in Maximum PC, (but I'm getting older and can't be sure without finding the article).
 

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Username: Tonytiger

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Post Number: 49
Registered: Feb-04
Here's a hack page:
http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=all
 

Bronze Member
Username: Littleyama

Post Number: 13
Registered: Apr-04
I am in the market for a DVR unit. I will be dubbing old VHS tapes to DVD. I plan on spending up to $2000 for a recorder. A recorder w/hard drive is what I have been looking at. Please give me some brand & model names/#'s that are in the $2K ballpark.

Also, can these units record vinyl records, cassetes,reel-to-reel tape to CD-R?
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