[dba-Tech] Question about cable tv and recording therefrom

This is a start but that is all that it is. I have a Scientific Atlanta box
with standard RCA outputs and diagrams how to copy to VCR but this seems to
me a very lossy route. I have been told that instead I could select a
recorded program and pipe it to a DVD burner and thus capture 1+ programs to
a single DVD. That is that I want. I am NOT into bootlegging this stuff. I
just want to watch episodes repeatedly. Unfortunately, the series of
interest are not available at the CBC store or I would simply buy them.
I might be wrong, but I am guessing that first recording to VCR and thence
to DVD would result in a serious loss of resolution. I am most willing to
stand corrected on this.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: December 28, 2005 2:06 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Question about cable tv and recording therefrom

Hi Arthur,

PC Magazine just ran an article on using your PC DVD burner to burn
your VCR Tape based content to DVD. You would be doing a similar
process from the Rogers hard drive recorder.

Have a look here

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1892657,00.asp

There is a nice diagram on the second page of that artical "Hardware"
that shows how it all fits together.

Gary