I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed either.

But, you can record on a DVD Player and ship the DVD Disc to your Daughter. They are pretty inexpensive now.

It is the same size as a CD.

Gayle

Yes - you can buy a DVD recorder for well under $100 now. I record TV shows that I don't want to keep on DVD-RW (rewriteable DVDs that you can re-record over). If I record a movie we want to keep, I record it on a regular DVD (my recorder takes DVD+R disk, there are also DVD-R disks - your instruction book will tell you what type you need)

You will also need to check to see if your Daughter can play what you have recorded. There are different "regions" throughout the world - and DVD's are encoded to play a certain way. I am sorry I can't explain this very well. But if you purchased a DVD of a movie and sent it to your DD, she may not be able to play it because it is encoded with the USA's region.

I am not sure if she had a DVD player or computer that was manufactured for use in the US - if the disks would then work correctly.

You have to "finalize" the disk before it will play on a different DVD player.

You can record several hours on a DVD - I think up to 6 on mine. You set it for the number of hours you want it to use - but I always try to use the setting that is 2.5 hours or less. If you go much higher, the video quality becomes very poor.

This is from WikiPedia:

Standalone DVD recorders
When the standalone DVD recorder first appeared on the Japanese consumer market in 1999, these early units were very expensive, costing between $2500 and $4000 USD. However, as of early 2007, DVD recorders from notable brands are selling for US$200 or 150 and less, with even lower "street prices". Early units supported only DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs, but the more recent units can record to all major formats DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R DL. Some models now include hard disk-based digital video recorders (DVRs) to improve ease of use. Standalone DVD recorders generally have basic DVD authoring software built in; however, the appearance of the finished DVD is very basic and usually completely under the control of the unit.

Some believe that DVD recorders will supersede the videocassette recorder (VCR), while others believe that they will remain specialty items as digital video moves to network distribution.

DVD recorders have several technical advantages over VCRs, including:

Superior video and audio quality
Easy-to-handle and smaller form-factor disc media
Random access to video chapters without rewinding or fast-forwarding
Onscreen multilingual subtitles and labeling not available on VCRs
Reduced playback wear and tear
High-quality digital copying, with little or no generation loss
Improved editing, at least on rewritable media
Playlisting
No risk of accidentally recording over existing content or unexpectedly running out of space during recording
Easy to find recordings due to chapter menus
However, an inconvenience exists in which DVDs recorded with DVD recorders must be finalized to view in other DVD players. (This disadvantage does not apply to DVD-RAM or DVD+RW discs, which require no finalization due to their 'random access' nature.) Also, the implementation of MPEG-2 compression used on most standalone DVD recorders is required to compress the picture data in real time, producing results that may not be up to the standard of professionally rendered DVD video, which can take days to compress.

A number of manufacturers have combined DVD recorders with hard disk-based digital video recorders, allowing for simple recording to large fixed disks, and the ability to spool these recordings off the DVD at a later date.

8cm miniDVDs are widely used on some digital camcorders, primarily those meant for a consumer market ("point and shoot"); such discs are usually playable on a full-sized DVD player, but may not record on a full-sized DVD recorder system. Though popular for their convenience (in the manner of VHS-C), DVD camcorders are not considered suitable for more than casual use due to the much higher level of compression used compared to MiniDV and the difficulty of editing MPEG-2 video.

Thank you "iowagirl" for all the good information.

"Can you record programs on CD's from the TV or can you still just use. VHS Tapes????"

Please re-phrase the question.
Tell us what you have to work with.