If you own a digital video recorder, such as a TiVo, or a DVR from a cable or satellite provider, you know that you can record your TV shows to the device's hard drive to watch later, just like the old VCR. However, saving those TV shows becomes more difficult as your hard drive fills up. The answer to saving your shows is to record them to DVD! This can easily be accomplished by connecting a DVD recorder to your DVR.

Record a TV show on your DVR and save it to DVD.

Turn on the DVR, DVD recorder, and the TV that the DVD recorder is connected to. We have a Samsung DVD recorder (no hard drive) connected to the TV using an RCA audio/video cable from the rear outputs on the DVD recorder to the rear RCA inputs on my TV. We use a separate DVD player to play DVDs, but if you are using your DVD recorder as a player as well, use the best cable connections you can find to connect it to the TV. See the Types of A/V Cables article for more information.

Connect an S-Video or RCA video cable and composite stereo cables (red and white RCA plugs) from the DVR to the inputs on your DVD recorder. If your TV has component inputs, connect the Component Out of the DVD recorder to the Component In on the TV, otherwise you can use S-Video or Composite. You must still use RCA audio with your video connection