Humax DRT800 DVD-R/RW Recorder/TiVo Series2 DVR Combo
Sweet as Apple Pie
We've owned one of these for a few weeks now and love it! We already had TiVo but decided that being able to record DVDs was worth getting this machine.  <br /> <br />At medium quality you get four hours' worth of shows on one disc. Other settings give you more or less disc space accordingly. When TiVo burns a disc it creates a DVD menu for all the shows on the disc. It allows you to burn the shows in the order you want and name the DVD as well.  <br /> <br />Speed of burning depends on the speed rating on the disc; R/W discs take twice as long as R in our trials. The quality of the DVD recording reflects the quality the show was recorded at, so if you record at basic then that's what you'll get on the DVD as well (so don't be surprised if the DVD you burn is not \\"DVD quality\\" -- it's just a storage medium reflecting the TiVo recording quality).  <br /> <br />You can mix quality-level ratings on one DVD, and the manual says that shows needing more than one disc will be automatically created to span DVDs if necessary (although we have not tried this capability yet). <br /> <br />The DVDs we've burned played fine on both Windows and Macintosh computers as well as a Sony portable DVD player.  <br /> <br />When watching a DVD with this machine, all the regular TiVo remote buttons perform the same, including the 8-second back-jump, which is great for catching a line or two of dialog just missed.  <br /> <br />No drawbacks found so far. Highly recommended. <br />