Dual Tray DVD Player/Recorder

Wolflord · Nov 2, 2007

I am looking to purchase a dvd recorder. One of the features I want though is to record to one disc while watching from another. Is there such a combo unit on the market?

Rackhir · Nov 2, 2007

Wolflord2176 said:
I am looking to purchase a dvd recorder. One of the features I want though is to record to one disc while watching from another. Is there such a combo unit on the market?

Even if there is, it's going to be a LOT cheaper just to pick up a second DVD player to do that.

azhrei_fje · Nov 6, 2007

The big issue with a second drive is that it takes up an IDE slot. Unless you're going SATA and have a lot of SATA ports available...

My fileserver currently has two IDE HDs and two IDE optical drives.

No more for me unless I get a SATA card for it and I hate to spend money on it given that it's almost 2 years old. I'm more likely to just get a new low-end machine from Staples or OfficeDepot or ... and move the data to the new one, using the old machine as a compile server or video transcoding server...

Rackhir · Nov 6, 2007

azhrei_fje said:
The big issue with a second drive is that it takes up an IDE slot. Unless you're going SATA and have a lot of SATA ports available...

My fileserver currently has two IDE HDs and two IDE optical drives. No more for me unless I get a SATA card for it and I hate to spend money on it given that it's almost 2 years old. I'm more likely to just get a new low-end machine from Staples or OfficeDepot or ... and move the data to the new one, using the old machine as a compile server or video transcoding server...

That's nice and all, but the OP wasn't talking about computers. He was talking about a standalone unit that could work as a VCR of sorts.