TWC DVR Editing?

[George99]

Hello,

Can the TWC DVR be used to edit the recorded material?  For example can you remove commercials, change start and end of programs, etc?  

Reason I'm asking is that the DVD burner I have attached to TV only does limited editing in VR mode and almost none in video mode.  So I end up editing DVD-R on the computer.  Probably should have gotten a DVD burner with HD.

George

[summerfun]

NO, unfortunately there is no editing ability of the TWC DVR.

Not sure about your comment about DVD burner with HD. As you know, DVD cannot record HD. It must be converted to SD to record onto a DVD.

I have found that editing is much easier on a computer than trying to do it on the fly with any stand alone DVD burner. Get an HD card for your computer and capture your TV from there, then edit and then burn to DVD right on the computer.

[George99]

OK, that's what I wanted to know.  Yes, as you noted, the material must be SD to work with my DVD burner; it is output on the S-video jack of my TWC Pioneer 3510 hdtv box.  Too bad the DVR box doesn't have editing... that would be a very nice feature.

Right now I'm only interested in recording SD not HD. So I guess I'll stick with my current procedure.

[George99]

It's probably bad form to reply to one's post but I just re-read my original post where I said something like "should have gotten a DVD burner with HD"..  Here I meant Hard Drive not high definition.   As far as I know there aren't a lot of hdtv DVD burners around yet.

[summerfun]

Originally posted by George99
As far as I know there aren't a lot of hdtv DVD burners around yet.

Correct, that is why I pointed out that you can only record SD. Many people do not realize that DVD cannot record HD.

There are a few new competing HD DVD formats being developed, but nothing standerdized for general use yet.