Lots of great help here. I used Tivo Desktop plus to transfer my recordings from the Tivo to the computer. Yes - I know the price of drives is getting low. In fact - I just bought a 500 GB hard drive to swap out in my series 2 Tivo. (Until I know I can do it right, I don't want to mess with my Series 3 and possibly screw it up and definitely void the warranty. Not all my shows are HD, so storing some of the series 2 is fine). My computer had nearly 400 GB of free space when I started transferring shows - and its' almost full now. So with my habits, even a 1TB external drive will get filled up. I may use one to store HD movies and things where the HD matters more. But recording sitcoms, American Idol and my daughter's kid shows doesn't require HD. So I need to get some of these shows off all hard drives since they'll be filling up and get some to DVD-RW disks (I'm assuming that in a couple of years my daughter won't want her Hannah Montana shows, etc). I looked at the computer's dvd player and it didn't say DL or dual layer. I have to figure out how to get to windows explorer and I'll doublecheck about writing dual density. I got the computer in Jan. 2008. I think I will need something like VideoReDo. Not sure if I'd still need DVD Shrink in that case or not. I'll check it out. Urlee - does your DVR also have a Tivo? I really like the Tivo. perhaps I should get a Tivo DVR with builtin DVD burner. That would simplify this whole process - but I think it would cost a lot for the unit and then again for Tivo Service. If I don't have a DL DVD burner in my computer, I wonder if it's worth getting one? Sure could help to get movies and 2 hours shows burned in one dVD. Thanks. Lynn.

Zep to the rescue. Thank you. I was afraid they would pull them from the site by tomorrow. I got them to the desktop. How did you get them to PB so fast? I've been taking "the long way home." And they're not there yet.

Have you used Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) to see the contents of your hard drive? It will show you the contents of a USB device, a DVD, a CD. Like the table of contents in a book. I find it very handy and have mine set on Details rather than Icons. As owbist said, if you put the DVD in your DVD drawer a window will pop up and View All Files is usually highlighted. Just click on that and a new window will show a listing of what is on the DVD. You can double-click on any file for it to be opened by your default picture-viewing program. If it doesn't work you may have a lower capacity CD drawer. Did it work?

How well does it do with dropped frames and out-of-sync audio. I can't seem to overcome that problem with my TV tuner card. On long video captures, I get out-of-sync audio. If you have irreplaceable video tapes I would go with a standalone DVD recorder. If these are movies you have I would get a DVD burner for the computer and rent each movie and copy it. It is much easier this way and much better quality. Pooh Bear