well dont get all pissy "CD-RW part is sort of like a TiVo type deal going on. You can record television programs and such". that statement is wrong. Its now been corrected.

Im guessing you are talking about an adapter (internal or external) that will allow televisions to plug into the drive and archive footage.

no you can't burn a dvd onto a cdr or cdrw and watch it. you would need to burn a dvd to another dvd with a dvd burner which then you would be able to watch it. if you want to burn a dvd to a cd you would need to compress the dvd to make it fit onto a cd. cd are max 870mb whereas dvd's are about 5 gigs of info. what would be burned onto a cd would make it a video cd(vcd).

i'm not sure what was meant by being like tivo. u can record tv shows on ur pc and burn them to make a vcd to watch on ur dvd player but in no way would that be like tivo as tivo records to it's own hd's

hope this makes sense

if you want to put a dvd on cdr, yo have to rip it, and encode it so it i small enough to fit on a cdr, then make and svcd, and you can play it in your dvd player, why it says cdrw/cdr i dont know

Any one have any idea how much Dvd players are which you can actually copy dvds on??