Page 1 of Simple question on DVD recorders that I can`t find a difinitive answer for.

Can DVD recorders burn audio CD`s.

I ask this because I am a great fan of radio documentries, comedy and drama and would love to record the radio via Sat/Freeview onto CD. For instance the `sold on song` with George Michael last night was an hour long ideal for archive on CD and BBC7 are currently repeating the original radio series of Little Britian from 2001. Is it possible with all models, just some or none? At the moment I record onto minidisc or via the BBC stream on broadband to HD, but the quality is not as good.

Cheers in advance :)

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Can DVD recorders burn audio CD`s.

In most cases, no. The Lite-On LVW5005 is the only DVD recorder I know of which can burn audio CDs.

Mike

Surley skankyman, you would be better off buying a MP3 player/recorder, like the iriver. I also want to record some radio programmes & will get the iriver as it has a line in & thus can record direct from radio etc. This could then easily be draged & dropped onto a computer & burnt to Cd if neccessary. On some of the programmes you mention I doubt if you would notice the difference between `wav & MP3.

How about recording the programme onto a re-writable DVD, ripping the audio on a PC and then burning the audio onto CD? The re-writable DVD can then be used again.

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How about recording the programme onto a re-writable DVD, ripping the audio on a PC and then burning the audio onto CD? The re-writable DVD can then be used again.

No he`d need reliability, if he goes that route he would be better with DVD-RAM.

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No he`d need reliability, if he goes that route he would be better with DVD-RAM.
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Is DVD-RAM not re-writable?

Ho Ho Ho

You could always beed your soundcard with output from your audio outputs on your freeview box and put it straight onto your hard drive.

I recorded the Little Britain radio shows when R4 repeated them earlier this year-I saved to my hard drive and converted to mp3 and burnt all the episodes onto a single CD.

Thanks for all the info.

I use most of the suggestions at the moment depending on what I`m recording and from where. I was really trying to avoid any analogue convertion and go straight from digital signal to a digital recording. Sky+ has a digital out and the thomson dhd4000 has a digital out, but the only recorder with digital in I have is Mini-disc. I will carry on recording via my sound card onto HD. The quality is only noticable to the trained ear (i.e me) and I intend to get a DHD4000 in the sales.

Maybe I`ll get a sound card with digital in.

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but the only recorder with digital in I have is Mini-disc.

But you still are converting to Atrac = to MP3