Tivo Audio/Video Incompatibilities?

[drshame]

I recorded off air material on 1 Tivo, transferred it thru my wireless netwrk to my DVD Tivo, but couldn;t burn a DVD from the file.
The error message said it was an incompatible format.
WTF?
It came from a dual-tuner Tivo, and it was recorded on best quality and I needed changed any other settings.
Are the newer Tivo's "incompatible" with the DVD units?

The transferred file plays fine and seems like all my other Tivo files.

But I can't burn it because "the files are incompatible".

[lafos]

This is a "feature" of all the DVD units. You can only burn shows recorded on the unit itself. If you search the threads in this forum, you should be able to find more details.

[windracer]

The DVD units record in DVD-compliant resolutions so there's no transcoding necessary when they're burning the disc. As a result, you can only burn content that was originally recorded on the box itself.

A (clunky) workaround for this is to hook up TiVo #2 to the video inputs on your DVD TiVo and then do a manual recording. Then you can burn the resulting recording to DVD.