Reply #12: My Friend Has One

[ProfessorGAC]

The price of those has dropped DRAMATICALLY! Believe me, he's way too cheap to have gone DVD/R if they hadn't come WAY down in price. I'm pretty sure he paid around $220 for a DVD recorder, that does re-writable. It only needs to be finalized if it's going to be played on a non-recorder (iow, my or another friend's machine). So, he can record, watch something later, and then when it's watched, use the same disk over and over.

Also, it has Chase View, which is like TiVo, where he can pick up viewing a show he's recording after the show began and watch what's been recorded while recording what's still on the air. He's actually then scanned forward during commercials and caught up to where the actual program was. It's way cool!

I'm gonna have to get me one, too!
The Professor