We have a DVD recorder!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I will be able to transfer my entire video collection onto DVD. (Woohoo!)

But blank DVDs are so much more expensive than blank videocassettes. (D’oh!)

But DVDs take up so much less space than videocassettes. (Woohoo!)

But I will have to guard my blank disks even more fiercely than I guarded my blank cassettes (from Mr. Rilch, who was CONSTANTLY asking to “borrow” a cassette, since he didn’t have any. (D’oh!)

But I will be able to create disks with all like things together. For instance, my reaction, when Mr. Rilch told me he wanted to buy this, was “Now I’ll be able to create a disk with all of David Patrick One-Scene Kelly’s finest moments one after the other, and not have to scan past scenes he’s not in!” (Woohoo!)

But I put so much time and effort into cataloguing my videos, and now I am no longer be able to record anything on cassette. (D’oh!)

But my catalogue will still be useful as a guide while I transfer stuff from video to DVD. (Woohoo!)

But I just now set it to record something, and the whole time I was programming it, I kept thinking of Chef’s TV that put forth arms and legs and terrorized South Park. (D’oh!)

But it’s just a matter of sitting down and studying the instructions until I know them inside and out. (Woohoo!)

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Sounds very cool! Congratulations!

I know there are DVD burners attached to computers (high end G4 Macs come with them) but I don’t know much about DVD burners other than that. Is this a stand-alone burner? How much did it cost? How did you edit the DVDs? How do you do this? Please, please, details! :smiley:

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It’s stand-alone.

The sticker price was $1200, but the cost to us, with the help of coupons and rebates, was considerably less.

One can either record directly onto the disc, or onto the hard drive. In the first case, you’re stuck with the entire recording, commercials and all; I think you can erase such programs, but you sure can’t edit them. In the second case, you can transfer from the hard drive to the disc and edit out anything you don’t want.

Bonus: I just found out that the machine records the closed-captioning! My VCR didn’t capture the closed-captioning signal on programs it recorded, but this machine does!