On air Digital Video Recorder

You can also use RAM disk or DVD-RW disks as scratchpads.

Google is your friend...

HDTV capable as well (which is still rare) ordinary DTV disk based systems are already on supermarket shelves in the UK.

Regards, Martin Brown

You need TiVo.

Look into old D-VHS units. Quite impressive.

Since you are posting to a *design* group, I assume you can assemble stuff yourself. Buy an ATSC tuner card (PCI/PCIe), then

Next time you have a question about off-the-shelf consumer gear, take it to the rec.* hierarchy where it belongs. If it about video gear, find a group with *video* in its name.

What you want is a PVR (Personal Video Rrecorder), in Australia here the shops are full of them, they are massively popular.

Available in SD and HD versions, it's basically what you call a "converter box" but it has a hard drive to record the programs. The more expensive ones have dual tuners so you can record two shows at once while also playing one back something else. If you use it as your HD veiwing box then you can do cool stuff like pause live TV.

Dave.

That's a cable DVR. The OP appears to want one with OTR capability.

The UK and Australia (according to Mr. Jones) may have these things on the store shelves, but here in the USA, they appear to have mysteriously disappeared.

My brother was looking at upgrading from a nice Sony analog DVR, what with the impending cutover. He told me that he had seen a digital model with the equivalent features about a year ago. But he waited for better prices, more features. But now, the digital models have disappeared and used models are getting scarce. That's based upon his research.

I may end up building him a MythTV box, but that's about all that's left.

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@hovnanian.com:

WalMart sells a DVR receiver-DVD burner that has a 160G hard drive. You'll need an antenna,preferably amplified.

There's the Philips DVDR3576H DVD Recorder with 160GB Hard Disc and Built-In Tuner

Thanks. I'll have to tell my brother to look into this. Google found the

One has to be careful about sending the technical neophytes out to shop for things like these. Quite a few stores are trying to clear old analog equipment off the selves. Although they are supposed to inform customers that they are being sold old NTSC equipment, if you don't ask the correct questions, they'll send you out the door with the wrong stuff.

Salesman: "Digital Tuner? Yes, it has a digital tuner. See the 7-segment channel number display on the front? That's digital."

I built a MythTV box using MythBuntu. I've gone bonkers trying to get it to work. So I'm looking for something off the shelf. I check with a local supplier of HDTV equipment and he told me such an item is not available as far as he knows and that if I fo find one, let him know.

Al

Hey, looks good! I'll check it out further.

Now why couldn't I find that myself?

Thanks.

Al