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Cyberhome DVD recorder
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Posted by: jrrob8

anyone using this (model 1500) to record from their tivo? Walmart has them for
$249, they record +r/+rw. have any thoughts on this machine?

Posted by: PaulaBerge

Thank you for the tip!

I purchased this today at Walmart in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota, was $248. They also have an APEX for the same price but it's not in stock in any of the stores near me. Earlier this week, I was going to buy the Philips DVDR75 at Best Buy, but had been researching others trying to make up my mind.

We've only had it running for 5 hours, but so far, excellent. I've recorded several full programs and a few partial that had been recorded on TiVo (video 2), and several things on demand from live TV (video 1) and set up a few timer recordings - the unit has to be put on standby to do timer records, but gives a warning screen. There are also inputs on the front on the unit for easy camcorder transfer and tried that as well, but playing back the DVD +RW on another DVD Player, the sound was extremely low. This might be because our camcorder is a VHS-C - I don't know, maybe someone has some ideas for that (it's not S-Video).

Haven't tried recording onto +R yet, but don't anticipate that to be a problem (saving discs while I get the hang of this).

Only recorded in the SP (2 hour) speed. Video quality was excellent. We only record 'best' on TiVo, and I don't think I'd go any lower on either.

It has pretty straight-forward title and chapter editing, as well as chapter marking and hiding. Has a setting for automatic 5 minute chapters too. Editing titles could be a pain as you have to up/down for each character/number/letter.

I suppose the biggest drawback would be timer recordings, as you need to input all info. - the Philips came with GuidePlus or something similar - but hey, saving $227 is worth that.

I have Comcast Digital cable, now we can watch channels 1-99 on the TV itself while TiVo is recording anything, and also have the DVDR record something else at the same time on channels 1-99. My Apprentice/American Idol dilemma for next week is solved :)

We have two older DVD players that wouldn't play the recorded copy, but the newest DVD player we own worked great, and that's where I noticed the sound problem from the camcorder - sound was fine playing on the DVDR. I'm wondering if the +R will be different, as +R goes through a finalization and +RW has a "make compatible" mode. I'm really new at this so this might sound stupid to the pros.

I'd say to go for it, we haven't been this happy since the day we got TiVo and in this electronic-cluttered house, that means a lot.

It sure seems to have nearly everything I wanted from the Philips.

Posted by: ZeoTiVo

it just hit me while reading this

If I have an ATI all in wonder that records video, could I just not hook ap the video cables from Video out on TiVo to my ATI card in PC and have "TiVoToGo" without the Dongle and in whatever format I choose to record it?

anyone try this ? Looks Like I am going to dig my long cables out.

Posted by: jwjody

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Originally posted by ZeoTiVo
it just hit me while reading this

If I have an ATI all in wonder that records video, could I just not hook ap the video cables from Video out on TiVo to my ATI card in PC and have "TiVoToGo" without the Dongle and in whatever format I choose to record it?

anyone try this ? Looks Like I am going to dig my long cables out.

I thought about this, but the All-in-Wonder card I was looking at didn't have support for sound.

You can get the Pinnacle MovieBox and use it to do a recording from the TiVo to your computer.

There was a good thread about this a week or 2 ago.

J