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Posted by bassbinotoko (A) on November 02, 2011 at 03:13:25

In Reply to: RE: Why No Blu Ray Recorders posted by Mike Porper on October 28, 2011 at 08:40:28

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...

• http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Recording_Digital_Cable   (Open in New Window)