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I have a Pioneer DVD recorder. It has a DVR drive, editing capabilities, and TV Guide’s free tivo-like service (no subscription, no registration).

It cost me about $250 new in the box, no warranty (Pioneer had dropped support for my model but the vendor backed it up for something like the first week or month of performance).

I don’t know if Tivo has a free service, but TV Guide does. And not all DVR systems can burn DVDs or give you editing capabilites (there are also some that just burn straight to DVD-R, no caching to DVR drive).

Hope this helps.

7 posted on 07/10/2007 9:27:23 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)

I have 2 TiVos...no DVD recording capability, though.

The thing about TiVo is, you have to pay not just for the box, but for the service (if you go with TiVo...)

Check to see if your cable provider (if you’re on cable) offers a DVR service.