http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/01/lgs-hr400-blu-ray-recorder-gets-outed/ Engadget HD Comments for LG's HR400 Profile 2.0 Blu-ray recorder gets outed http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/01/lgs-hr400-blu-ray-recorder-gets-outed/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/01/lgs-hr400-blu-ray-recorder-gets-outed/Jun 1st 2009 11:42AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/01/lgs-hr400-blu-ray-recorder-gets-outed/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/06/01/lgs-hr400-blu-ray-recorder-gets-outed/
Come on now!!!! Please release a stand-alone BR recorder in the US.
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If you have an OTA receiver and a firewire connection, you can record straight to an HDD. OTA is not (and cannot be) encrypted. Even if you have a firewire cable box -- by law, if you ask for one, they have to give you one -- the OTA channels are not encrypted from the cable box, even if all the others are. So it's a straight dump to the ol' HDD.

That means an *OTA* recorder has limited use -- especially for that price! -- unless you're dead-set on recording to BD.

What's missing is 5C compatibility. With 5C, you could plug it into your cable box and record ANYTHING. Something that no device on the market can do right now! (Hauppauge records component A->D, not the raw digital transport stream.) Why we don't have 5C compatible BD recorders in the US is beyond me. Its a travesty. Something LG cold have rectified, but didn't. :-(

-Pie]]>Jun 2nd 2009 11:29AM