Archiving Content from a PVR?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday June 27, 2002 @05:37AM from the PVRs-need-built-in-ethernet-jacks dept.

ayden asks: "Now that the universe has conspired to keep me unemployed for the foreseeable future, I'm taking the time to fill in the gaps in my Babylon 5 collection thanks to the SCI-FI channel. I'm frustrated the linear nature video tape and the problems associated with recording directly from broadcast to tape. It occurs to me that there has to be a better way. I've thought about using my ATI All In Wonder Radeon to record the program directly to my hard drive and editing the resulting file to remove commercials. Should I then record the file to video tape? Or would it be better to make a Video CD I could play back on my DVD player? Are there other options should I consider? How are people archiving shows from their Personal Video Recorders? What techniques are people using to accomplish these tasks?"

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Great quality, only one D--A conversion by derinax · 2002-06-27 06:04 · Score: 4, Informative

I've gotten quality that rivals ExtractStream from the TiVo by recording S-Video onto Mini-DV tapes through either a Sony DV Watchman or a Canon digital video camera.

Once on MiniDV, you can go firewire into your machine. From there, it goes onto DVD via mi iMac.

Easy, no weird cropping (like you have to do with ExtractStream), and the quality is top.