No, you can not
You will need an adapter such as the Elgato unit (See links below) to get the recording from the Sky box S Video sockets into the Mac. You will then need to re-record them in iMovie, or similar, for passing to iDVD for burning to DVD. An alternative route would be a DVD recorder connected directly to the Sky box.
Hi, You should be able to do it with the right equipment. A lot depends on your DVD recorder and its capabilities and whether or not your cable box has the appropriate outputs on it. Just remember, "Where there's a will, there's a way". Hope this helps, Cubby
Yes, you can use an HDMI cable to connect your dish network receiver box to your DVD recorder or the normal AV cables. However, HDMI is perfectly advisable to use.
You don't need anything extra - just connect them in this order... Freeview box - DVD recorder - TV. The signal will be recorded by the DVD recorder before it gets to the TV
You cannot download a file inside the DVR unit onto a DVD disk the same way you can download a music file from the iTune store. But you can record output from the DVR to a DVD disk using either a stand-alone DVD disk recorder or computer's DVD writer. Connect an analog output on the DVR (such as S-video, component, or composite for video and RCA / red and white audio) to the input sockets of your stand-alone DVD recorder. Or buy a USB or PCI 'video capture' device for your computer so that you can connect DVR's analog output to the video capture device on your computer. While a TV show is played on the DVR, the stand-alone DVD recorder or computer will record it.
The tuner allows you to record from multiple channels, i.e. record from Channel 12 at 9:00, then from Channel 23 at 10:00. "Tunerless" DVRs rely on something like a cable box to change the channels.
I believe that you can use your cable turner or the TV turner to record TV Shows. It all in the setup for RCA style inputs into the DVD/VCR from outputs from the cable box or TV if they are available. You can only record TV shows that are playing on the TV/Cable Box and if they do not have outputs setting up the DVD/VCR to record is not possible. The single channel use prevents you from watching one show and recording another on that TV. This is what I was doing before I got the DVR on my cable box and now I fast forward past all the commercials.
The modern VCR / DVD recorder does not work like the old VCRs. The switch to OTA digital TV has made the tuner less useful and was deleted from most device. VCR / DVD are now used to transfer the data to DVD . You could however attach cables fron an exernal digital tuner/ or cable box/ satellite into the VCR/DVD with the input line to record. (RCA / HDMI/ composite)
Try using the composite (analog) outputs from your cable box instead of the digital outputs.
the record is 500
Record everything (or as much as you can) until something happens.
Commercial DVD's are not burned they are pressed from a master in huge numbers. That is why you cannot duplicate a commercial DVD to a DVD-R for example. You can burn from a DVR to a DVD but you won't be sble to do it digitally if there is copy protection. For example if you record a program from cable and it is copy protected, you are only able to put on digital media (Recorder or DVD) once. The next transfer will be blocked if there is copy protection in the program. About half the programs have this protection now.