These devices are the latest thing in home theatre, and offer incredible versatility and convenience. You can record a program while watching another, freeze live TV, replay the scene you missed, and then skip ahead to catch up to the live feed. Your ability to program your DVD player also increases considerably, with access to online program guides that make it possible to automatically record an entire season's worth of your favourite program. Your recorded content, whether from a cable or satellite signal or your camcorder, is saved directly onto the hard drive for temporary storage.

You can choose to delete any unwanted content, save other content for viewing and discarding later on or transferring the content you want to keep onto a DVD for permanent safe keeping. You can also record video directly to DVD. Some models even let you do some basic editing before sending your video to DVD. Be careful not to confuse these hard drive recorders with a Media Center PC: this is an audio and video recording and playback device and is not intended to interface with your computer to store other file types. For more information, check out DVD-Recorder-Reviews.info.