Digital DVD recorders

[Ext User(Andy)]

Is there a law or secret agreement between the DVD people and the
governments around the law that prevents digital receivers to be integrated
with DVD recorders?

[Ext User(Justin)]

Andy wrote:
> Is there a law or secret agreement between the DVD people and the
> governments around the law that prevents digital receivers to be integrated
> with DVD recorders?

No. They exist in the UK (Panasonic). In terms of burning to DVD,
they're going to be a bit underwhelming at first (until HD-DVD or blue
ray) as they'll only fit an hour or so of recorded TV on a DVD. The
advantage will be being able to record both DVB-T & analogue sources on
to the one hard drive.

Justin

[mddawson]

Andy wrote:
> Is there a law or secret agreement between the DVD people and the
> governments around the law that prevents digital receivers to be integrated
> with DVD recorders?

No. They exist in the UK (Panasonic). In terms of burning to DVD,
they're going to be a bit underwhelming at first (until HD-DVD or blue
ray) as they'll only fit an hour or so of recorded TV on a DVD. The
advantage will be being able to record both DVB-T & analogue sources on
to the one hard drive.

Justin

Not quite true. There is no reason that the digital recording cannot be re-encoded on the fly to fit longer length recordings onto a disc. The current batch of Pioneer DVD/HDD recorders do this during a file transfer from HDD to DVD.

[Ext User(Ozdude)]

"Andy" <Pandermyandy@blogmog.com> wrote in message
news:44611526$1@news1.veridas.net...
> Is there a law or secret agreement between the DVD people and the
> governments around the law that prevents digital receivers to be
> integrated with DVD recorders?
>

I believe there is a LG 2XHD Tuner/DVD Recorder/HDD unit coming to the
general market in Aus. shortly (available now in some places).

I don't have specific model numbers or anything, but I believe this is the
start of what's coming later this year.

Oz