A friend has asked me for ideas and I am stumped as I have got a bit
left behind.

He is preparing for the digital Switchover and wants to use the prompt
to get a HDD Recorder. He is a fanatic of some minority interest sport
programmes and hopes to save such programmes to DVD. (He likes things
in bookcases so a large HDD wouldn't satisfy him)
We have identified that such machines are available. We presume you
take recordings from the HDD and compile them somehow to a package to
burn onto a DVD.

Questions:
Would such a machine have the connectability to enable a VHS to be
connected so that VHS content could be put onto DVD?


Are there downsides to using DVD-RW?