Comcast and DVR

[Ben Mishoe]

Hi,
I am a comcast HD subscriber. I was searching through the posts this morning looking for the answer to the question(s):
a) does the DVR that Comcast supplies have a hard drive and a DVD-R internally, or just the hard drive?
b) can I record whatever I download to a DVD?

I found a response where someone had linked to the 'i-Guide', and in it, they explain how you can record to a VCR, but I never saw anything about recording to a DVD player. If you cannot with the one that Comcast supplies, would I just be better of buying a DVR from Best Buy or whatever that had all the built in functionality that I want, or would I lose a lot of nice user features if I did that?

Thanks for any help.
Ben Mishoe

[oman321]

http://www.hdtvoice.com/voice/showthread.php?t=19927

A. No the DVR's provided by comcast do not have a DVD-R, none do as far as I know. Hard drive only.
B. Refer to post 2 on the link, but ya you could record to a DVD recorder if that's your question. It will become a downconverted signal though because you have to connect with a S-Video or a Composite connection.

Stand alone DVR from Best Buy will most likely work for OTA HD and perhaps unencrypted cable HD if it has a QAM tuner built in.

As a side note, if you do set up to record on a DVD recorder or VCR for that matter, you cannot interrupt the recording once it's begun because it will show up on your recording i.e. pause, ff, rw etc.