Comments on: A Call To Arms

By: mike davis

mike davis — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:11:28 +0000

Thanks, George, for the kind gesture shown on our serviceman’s request. Wish I was enough of a computer geek to help, other than suggest recording the race on DVD.

Your appeal was answered by a lot of warm-hearted people, with some great suggestions. I know our country’s guardian will appreciate the response.

Mike D

By: Randy Holbrook

Randy Holbrook — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:55:23 +0000

George, I just got around to reading this and haven’t taken the time to read through all of the responses but if you haven’t found anyone yet, I would be glad to help. I am certainly no computer whiz, but I do have a DVD recorder at home that I use to archive the races. It works for me, I am able to watch what I record on a computer or a DVD player. Let me know if I can help. I really enjoyed your articles this year. I always read them but seldom get to comment because I am always a few days behind. Keep up the great work!

By: Bent Wickerbill

Bent Wickerbill — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:20:58 +0000

George,
Sorry, what I meant to say was, someone with a DVR-DVD burner would be able to help.
For example, this Magnavox MDR513H-F7 would do the trick….

MAGNAVOX MDR513H/F7 HDD and DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner, Black

Best regards.

By: jameso

jameso — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:10:23 +0000

George: you may want to repeat this close to the beginning of the season…

By: JohnMc

JohnMc — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:32:47 +0000

If I could I would. Thanks George for making the call to arms and it looks like it is going to work out.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:52:46 +0000

It’s easier than you all are making it out to be. What I plan on doing is splitting the output from my DirecTV box and using a $80 TV tuner that hooks into the usb port on my computer and the recording it to my hard drive and then I can burn it to a DVD-R and the first one I’d send in different formats so that it’ll play for sure on almost any dvd player or computer.

By: Boo Boo

Boo Boo — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:09:47 +0000

Not sure if I understand what you’re asking, what with all the folderol about politics and such. You never really got around to saying exactly what he wants.

If what he wants is to receive recordings of next season’s races on DVD, though the mail, in Afghanistan… that’s easy.

The easiest, most straight-forward way to record an IndyCar race to DVD is to buy a DVD recorder, which works just like a video recorder. Something like this:

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_052DR430/Toshiba-DR430.html?c=16&tp=2715&avf=N

Probably available even cheaper elsewhere, but ~120 bucks seems like a reasonably small price to pay to get IndyCar races mailed to Afghanistan. Your friend just needs to buy the machine and give it to someone willing to record the races for him.

If you have a Tivo machine, you can hook that up to your home network via ethernet, or a WiFi adapter, and then transfer the video of races that you Tivo to your PC using free software from tivo.com. Then you “burn” DVDs using Windows Media Player.

On a Mac you have to buy Roxio Toast ($80), which does both the transferring and the burning. It’s easy to burn DVDs on a Mac, but Tivo doesn’t provide any Mac software for getting the video off the Tivo machine. Bummer.

If it was me, I’d probably just buy the DVD recorder, because screwing around with this sort of stuff on PCs is good way to drive yourself nutz. Nonetheless, it is possible to transfer Tivo video to a PC, and then make DVDs.

If I still had a Tivo I’d do it myself, but mine died and I’ve felt no need to replace it. Guess I just don’t watch much TV anymore.

By: Oilpressure

Oilpressure — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:55:56 +0000

He is looking for copies of the 2011 races. I do not know what he will be playing the DVD on.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:39:52 +0000

Is this for races next year or is he just looking to take some past races with him? Also will he be playing them on a dvd player or a laptop? Sorry I have more questions than answers right now.

By: Ron Ford

Ron Ford — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:51:40 +0000

Hello George,

Like Redd and the others, I have limited computer skills. For example, I bought a DVR recorder as BW describes and I could not even figure out how to hook it up. My six year old neighbor boy was unavailable. So, it is still in the box holding up books. I am willing to donate it to you if you want it. It is a Memorex Dual Format DVD Recorder. Never used, obviously.