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<blockquote data-quote="hokiethang" data-source="post: 15100">The finished product between the two is more than likely going to be the same quality. With the DVD burner you can edit the video whereas with the recorder it would be a direct copy with all of the stuff you may have wanted to edit out. The process of doing it through the computer is a bit tedious and definitely takes a bit more skill, but will result in a better quality and probably more watchable DVD. The DVD recorder does the translation and compression automatically, because when recording television it would have to take an uncompressed analog stream and make it an mpeg2 stream for the DVD. Both devices are limited by the amount of data you want to store, not so much time. It works just like video tape (just not as much time as a VHS tape), if you do lower quality video, you can get more time out of the disc, (because the video will not take up as much space). The format depends on the software used to create the DVD. The data that is burned to the disk is mpeg2, but the conversion is usually handled by the software used to author the DVD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hokiethang, post: 15100"] The finished product between the two is more than likely going to be the same quality. With the DVD burner you can edit the video whereas with the recorder it would be a direct copy with all of the stuff you may have wanted to edit out. The process of doing it through the computer is a bit tedious and definitely takes a bit more skill, but will result in a better quality and probably more watchable DVD. The DVD recorder does the translation and compression automatically, because when recording television it would have to take an uncompressed analog stream and make it an mpeg2 stream for the DVD. Both devices are limited by the amount of data you want to store, not so much time. It works just like video tape (just not as much time as a VHS tape), if you do lower quality video, you can get more time out of the disc, (because the video will not take up as much space). The format depends on the software used to create the DVD. The data that is burned to the disk is mpeg2, but the conversion is usually handled by the software used to author the DVD. [/QUOTE]

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