Why does it seem like newer DVD recorders don include hard drives?
Built-in hard disc drives used to be a popular option on DVD recorders since they added a lot of recording flexibility. However, many people today get DVRs from their cable or satellite TV providers. As a result, the interest in DVD recorders with DVRs has waned over the past couple of years, and many DVD recorder manufacturers have found it much less feasible to put hard drives in their newer units. If you’d like to have some of the same flexibility a combo DVD recorder/DVR offers, consider a DVD recorder that can record to DVD-RAM discs. These discs can be recorded, erased, and re-recorded. Although not quite as flexible as a hard drive, DVD-RAM does allow basic editing, such as adding chapter marks and erasing or combining chapters.
