I hardly ever use the DVD burning, but it is a DVD player as well, of course (albeit not blu-ray) The 160 gb HD is nice.

It does not have the "record everything you think I might like" function, but I don't particularly want that. I have never found programming a VCR ( got my first one in 1976 ) to be particularly onerous. And I have two other DVRs on other cables - an RCA which doesn't have a much cool stuff and only an 80gb HD but is very easy and convenient to use, and a Polaroid with a 160gb HD, and the worst, weird rubberized remote I've ever seen on a device as well as a very clunky interface. ( got those two on Woot or ebay or someplace for about $100 each )

The DVRs with HDs are surprisingly hard to find in the US, but Walmart seems to usually have the Phillips. Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer and others pulled theirs from the US market when they cut deals with the cable and satellite companies or something.

>Intriguing. I don't like the sound of the manual recording, though -- "similar to programming a VCR." Does that mean you have to set recordings by day, time, and channel? No equivalent of TiVo or Dish options to search or record every new episode of a series?
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>I don't know how much use I would get from the DVD burning capability. I only use DVRs to time shift and watch shows at my convenience. Once watched, recordings get deleted. (Except when it's my daughters who set recordings, in which case they stay there until I clean them up ;-) Sort of like the rest of the house....)
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>>Naw, lo-tech. Drive to sister's house, plop in chair, use remote <g>
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>>My home setup is a true DVR/DVDR so I can burn from HD to DVD without much problem.
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>>http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DVDR3576H-Recorder-160GB-Built/dp/B0013WM0BQ
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>>cannot recommend this piece of equipment highly enough. Even has USB input. Plays AVI, WMV etc
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>>>How are you doing that? Is your benefactor transferring from the TiVo to a PC and then sending it to you? I no longer have a TiVo (switched to the freebie from Dish Network, even though it's not as good) and remember that process being very time consuming. Maybe it's easier now.
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>>>>Just made a few calls. Thank God for TIVO. I'll be watching it tomorrow night :-)
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>>>>>>Did I miss the mogul skiing or is that still to come?
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>>>>>You missed it big time, http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-news/n/news/afp-news/freestyle--bilodeau-wins-moguls--canadas-first-gold_278166Th.html it was the first Olympic gold for a Canadian in Canadian soil
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>>>>>http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-freestyle-skiing-schedule-results/