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Burning DVDs With TiVo, Without Burning Money
Electronics | Apr 28, 05
It's difficult to beat TiVo for ease of use in recording television, but it's when you combine that service with a DVD-R recorder that you get to experience the full potential of both technologies. Freed from a hard drive and burnt on a DVD, your TiVo recordings are now more permanent (you don't have to loose them to free up disk space) and portable, ready to be replayed on any DVD player.
What's really interesting is that TiVo enabled DVRs have of late become far more affordable. Consider the Pioneer DVR-57H DVD-R with TiVo and an 120 GB hard drive, which at the beginning of last year would have run you over $1,200 and today can be had for under $600 (see graph below.
Time Period: 10/20/2003 through 4/25/2005
Each tick mark represents one week
Red = High Price, Blue = Average Price, Green = Low Price
You get a lot of sophistication for that price, including 2:3 progressive scan and Faroudja directional correlation de-interlacing. In the same price range you can pick up a bit more hard disk space with the Toshiba RS-TX60, a 160 GB model that will allow up to 200 hours of recording. Both models come with TiVo Basic service right out of the box, allowing entry-level manual recordings by time and channel. The TiVo Plus (essentially the service currently enjoyed by TiVo's existing subscribers, with Search by Title, Season Pass and WishList functionality) is available for $12.95/month or $299 for the life of the product.
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