What should I look for when buying a DVD recorder?

I want to get a DVD Recorder for my Husband for X-Mas, but not sure what to look for as far as affordability and usage.

I want to buy a dvd recorder ( Probably panasonic or Sony) with a hard drive but I'm not sure what the main things to look for are. I spoke to someone in a store but didn't ...show more

I want to buy a dvd recorder with a vcr in it but do not know what to look for, there are so many to choose from. Thanks

Hello Folks, I'm thinking about buying a DVD recorder with a hard drive. My main purpose is to replace my old VCR and to avoid paying monthly DVR fees to Directv. I intend to record tv shows/movies. What I'm wondering is should I just buy a DVD without...

I have heard i can still record through a freeview box even though i have built in freeview, if i need to get a digital dvd recorder what are the things i should look for when buying

i am buying a dvd recorder, i want to be able to watch them on the other dvd players, they can all play dvd-r. I also want to be able to transfer lots of my videos to dvd, is there anything i should look out for or will any dvd recorder do this?

here's the deal, i recently have been looking at external video capture cards online(dazzle, and others), and tey're pretty cheap, going around 30-60 bucks, but then i noticed that a friend of mine has a dazzle DVD RECORDER, which has the same look and...

...can I do this on my comp? I was thinking about buying the Samsung dvd recorder model# vr-375 at Circuit City. Or, If I could do this on the computer, what would I need? My camcorder is a Sony digital Handycam DCR-TRV 140 NTSC and this still works...