How does everyone else copy shows from television ?
Do you use a dvd recorder or a vcr like I do and then transfer over to disc ?
It's easier for me that way,plus I haven't the heart to tell my vcr he is fired.

I record on my DVR.

For things that I want kept I transfer them to a DVD.

I still have a VCR but I no longer use it for recording.

I still had about 1100 vhs tapes that i already converted to disc and was about to trash them, then all these channels came out showing old tv shows so i am just using all the tapes as blanks.

I DVR everything. Anything I want keep (very rare these days) I record to DVD-RW and rip to a Hard Drive to store. I retired my VCR several years ago.

I haven't recorded anything in years, there is nothing on worth watching (or recording) these days! :(

A dvd recorder.

I use the vcr to record the news & shows like Dateline & 48 hours; stuff I don't normally save. Everything else gets recorded on a dvd.

How does everyone else copy shows from television ?
Do you use a dvd recorder or a vcr like I do and then transfer over to disc ?
It's easier for me that way,plus I haven't the heart to tell my vcr he is fired.



I use the VCR part on my DVD recorder and then transfer. That's probably because it's no such thing as recording OVER something on DVD

I haven't recorded anything in years, there is nothing on worth watching (or recording) these days! :(


I use a DVR
Nothing on worth recording do you have METV or Antenna TV I guess not. Theres lots of things worth recording.

I DVR first and then whatever I want to save I record to DVD-RW. The only reason I still have a VCR is because I'm too lazy to transfer the thousands of VHS tapes I have to DVD.

TVFactFan--it actually is possible to record over something on a DVD if you use a DVD-RW. The RW stands for re-writable.

I use the VCR part on my DVD recorder and then transfer. That's probably because it's no such thing as recording OVER something on DVD

There is if you have a hard drive.

I record on the hard drive of the DVD recorder and then high speed dub it to a disc after editing.

I did record onto the DVR then onto a DVD with my DVD recorder but the DVD recorder died recently.

I did record onto the DVR then onto a DVD with my DVD recorder but the DVD recorder died recently.

That's why I have several machines.

Right now, I'm working on recording the 3rd season Flying Nuns from Antenna TV. At first I didn't intend to do this because the shows are edited, but I figured what the heck it's better than nothing and there's no telling when or if the 3rd season will ever be out on DVD. I record on VHS (SP speed) then transfer to DVD.

I haven't recorded anything in years, there is nothing on worth watching (or recording) these days! :(
Seriously? Well I know certain types of shows ( variety, westerns, family programming) aren't setting the world on fire.

We have better realized documentaries on a host of subject matters, serious dramatic works who previously would only have been accomlished on film.


While their is a host of crap, there is so much of a larger canvas of material out there that decades earlier would never be reached in the broadcast medium. Just most of it isn't off of network broadcast.

Most every weekday I tape (on VCR) all the news from my local CBS affiliate WJHL-TV 11 Connects. (4:30-6:00am-- the 6-7 am is live but is essentially a re-run-- same script so I don't tape it. 12pm-12:30pm, 5-6:30pm, 7-7:30pm, and 11:00-11:35pm) I also record THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL on the same station.

Twice a year (July and January) I go back through each tape (I have around 200) and I save any news piece and any B&B episode and take the tape to my VCR/DVDR and put any thing I want to keep on a DVD. Then I take the DVD to my computer and edit it, and then when I have collected allot I save the files to a CD and add it to my collection.

I have changed my system to doing this process every three months. This week I am in the process of checking through tapes from July, August, and September. I usually use a TV and VCR that is on a cart (which I call my AV equipment) to sort through tapes, but right now I have three things going on...my TV with VCR/DVDR recording August stuff, my AV cart sorting September stuff, and I'm also listening to B&B episodes on my computer.

Each day when I start a new tape I label it with the date so I will know when It was from, then I take the tape to a small tote I keep for that month. At the end of the month I move the tapes out of that tote to a milk crate in my basement that each of the three months tapes are stored in until I have time to sort through them.

Usually its on the DVR 1st then i transfer to dvd. Some stuff i record to DVD as im watching but still dvr it just in case the dvd goes bad in recording, but thats mostly wrestling i watch record as it airs. I only record old series tv to dvd to get complete series that i like but not enough to buy the series on dvd. If its a series i like enough and the season sets are on DVD i buy the season sets and wont bother makin dvds from tv... I dvr the and then edit out commericals of anything i tape to dvd....I have almost 5000 vhs tapes mostly wrestling that my intention was to put to dvd but im not even close to getting that done

DVR. I use to have to search for a spare vhs then pop it in the ol' VCR whenever I wanted to record a show, but now all I have to do is push record with no fuss no muss. Isn't technology great?