Before buying your dvd recorder, it is important to make sure you choose the right type. Although your budget may affect your final decision, it is important that you understand what features are available, and how they affect you.
1 - Digital or not ?
Starting in 2008, and ending in 2012, all TV in the UK will go completely digital. This process is called the digital TV switch-over and it's going to happen TV region by TV region. To find out when this will affect you, type "digital switch-over" into google. If you currently use Sky or cable, then you probably wont need to get a recorder with an internal digital, or freeview decoder - but if you dont use sky or cable, and dont intend to - then at some point, you are going to benefit from getting a digital/freeview recorder.
2 - Hard drive recorder ?
Many dvd recorders now come with a built in hard disc drive. Quite simply, this is just an internal memory within the machine, that allows you to record directly to the machine, without using a blank dvd disc.
You can hold your own little "library" of programms on the hard drive, and watch, keep or delete them at your leisure. You can also download from the hard-drive to a blank dvd disc, this is great if you want to keep a copy of it, or just free up some space on your hard drive.
Hard drives come in various capacities, usually 80GB, 160GB, or 250GB. The bigger the hard drive, the more you can record onto it. Be wary of manufacturers "record upto" times. These figures are based upon using the lowest possible recording quality.
3. still need VHS ?
Still got video tapes lying around ?
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