Tivo DVD recorder vs DVD recorder?

Just purchased a Toshiba DVD recorder with Tivo. I am going to transfer
my video home movies to DVD. With the Tivo, the video is first recorded
to the harddrive then you transfer that to the DVD-R. Will this have
worse resolution or the same as using just a regular DVD recorder? I am
using the "Best Quality" recording setting on the Tivo.

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Just purchased a Toshiba DVD recorder with Tivo. I am going to transfer
my video home movies to DVD. With the Tivo, the video is first recorded
to the harddrive then you transfer that to the DVD-R. Will this have
worse resolution or the same as using just a regular DVD recorder?

It would be the same (assuming, of course, that the quality setting you
pick on the TiVo is similar to what you use on a non-TiVo DVD recorder).

The TiVo DVD recorders record everything in DVD format MPEG-2. When you
copy from the hard drive, it just copies the bits over to the DVD without
any change. One advantage to this is that you can write DVDs at much
faster than real-time.

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It should be the same. For some reason, it just seemed to
look better going through the TiVo, rather than going
direct.

Is there something, perhaps, in the TiVo that addresses
imperfections in the video, smooths them out a bit?


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It should be the same. For some reason, it just seemed to
look better going through the TiVo, rather than going
direct.

Is there something, perhaps, in the TiVo that addresses
imperfections in the video, smooths them out a bit?

In order to get good compression with MPEG-2, you need a clean signal.
It might be that TiVo is applying some filtering before compression to
clean it up a bit. Filtering that makes the image "softer" tends to make
it compress more easily.

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shaped the electrons to say:
Just purchased a Toshiba DVD recorder with Tivo. I am going to transfer
my video home movies to DVD. With the Tivo, the video is first recorded
to the harddrive then you transfer that to the DVD-R. Will this have
worse resolution or the same as using just a regular DVD recorder? I am
using the "Best Quality" recording setting on the Tivo.

Recording to the HD first makes no difference - once it is encoded to
the drive, it is digital, and the copy to the DVD is a pure digital
copy. So there is absolutely no quality change going from the drive
to the DVD.

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