Everyone’s Looking For: An HD TiVo with DVD

Sorry – it just doesn’t exist. We really wish it did. We have the standard definition Humax DVD unit, but nothing for the HD world.

There really aren’t even consumer-level DVD burners that can make Blu-ray DVDs at this point, and they may never come. With the HDCP copy protection on HD broadcasts, really the biggest candidate for recording to DVD in HD would be video from an HD video camera.

So what are the next-best options?

-Recording as standard def to DVD with a standalone player

or

-Transferring data to a Mac or PC over a network. For Macs, you’d need Roxio Toast, and for PCs you’d need TiVo Desktop Plus.

To transfer data, you need to have your TiVo on a network. If you aren’t already on a network, see our list of TiVo networking adapters.

Finally, we really don’t expect a unit with both HD and DVD to ever exist, so if you’re waiting for one to make the jump to HD, our advice would be to just get an HD unit now and enjoy it without DVD.