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If I'm going to keep the flat panel I've just bought, despite the ringer it's putting me through, it seems that I'll have to replace my DVD recorder, since discs recorded by it are 480 and not very good.
But, searching for a Blu Ray recorder, I've only found a few kilobuck units.
Aren't people recording stuff? Why aren't there any Blu Ray recorders?
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Your best bet is a PC equipped with an ATSC/QAM tuner and a Blu-ray burner. ATSC and Clear-QAM (US digital cable) can be easily recorded as a faithful copy (no transcoding). Since it's an MPEG-2 Transport Stream, it should just need a little cleaning up to be Blu-ray compliant. Try MultiAVCHD (free software). Or, it may be OK to leave the capture as a transport stream or turn it into an mkv, if your Blu-ray payer or media player handles those.
Blu-ray burners for the PC are under $100 now, which makes them pretty much a no-brainer for your next optical drive. However, you may find that a mere DVD will hold enough to be useful.
If you have an HD cable box or DVR, there may be a way to extract recorded content, or it may even have a Firewire output. See the mythtv wiki...
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There are Blu-ray recorders/drives, but mostly for PCs as data (not video) devices, and recordable BR discs (the price has come down from $5 each).Then there's the issue of content protection. The content owners (e.g. movie studios) don't want to give you a cheap way of distributing their stuff. They already let the DVD cat out of the bag; they don't want to make the same mistake twice. This time they have HDMI in place.
I record OTA programs direct to hard disk drives. I've only converted a few programs to DVDs; the PQ was quite decent on playback, which seems to indicate that the picture detail in "high definition" content is not anywhere near the spec. I've read that typical HD cameras are 1440x1080 (fewer horz pixels than 1920) and then filtered (down in detail) to ease compression.
Edits: 10/28/11 10/28/11
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