Hi Harald! >> We need a high end pc which produces pretty much heat and noise just to >> view non-recordable copy protected stuff. >> > > There is no such thing like HDCP end-to-end > (broadcasting station - TV set) encryption (or am I missing something here? > I think this is what THEY try to archive. > We aren't talking about illegal watching here, are we? > No, we are talking about having a harddisk recorder with all the comfort we currently have using the great VDR. Being able to do recording and timeshift. I have to admit I stopped exporting recordings to dvd (too error prone and due to self-destroing dvd medias), but having such a feature might be nice for others. > So - don't give up that quickly... > Ok. Ciao, Mario