Question: What Would I Be Able To Record on a Blu-ray Disc Recorder?
NOTICE: HD-DVD is now officially discontinued. However, information on HD-DVD, and its comparison to Blu-ray, is still contained in this article for historical purposes, as well as the fact that there are still many HD-DVD player owners, and HD-DVD players and discs will continue to be sold and traded on the secondary market for some time.
Answer: You can (or will be able to, if such units become available in the U.S. market), record anything on a Blu-ray Disc recorder (Since HD-DVD is now discontinued new HD-DVD recorders are not available) that you can on a DVD recorder or VCR, only at much higher quality than current technology allows, provided your source material is of good quality (VHS will still look like VHS!). Blu-ray Disc recorders will have both analog and digital video input capability for recording from any type of VCR or Camcorder, and will most likely include both an analog and digital TV tuner, so you can record both standard and high definition Television shows.
However, keep in mind, copy-protection issues. For instance, many pay-cable channels, such as HBO, do not allow certain types of recordings to be made (such as trying to make a copy of an original recording for a friend that you made of the Sopranos). Also, you will not be able to make copies of copy-protected DVDs or Blu-ray or HD-DVD discs.
