Do stand alone tv dvd recorders work as a Mac DVD-R?

[motulist]

Do stand alone tv dvd recorders work as a Mac DVD-R? Meaning, can I use the IEEE 1394 firewire input on the unit as an external Mac DVD-R drive to burn data dvds?

e.g. set top boxes like this one:
http://www.mydropshipsource.com/prod...o.php?pid=3408

[bigandy]

It's extremely unlikely... the firewire input will be for video cameras....

[Texas04]

tried hooking up my DVD recorder to my mac... no luck :-/ was DV in and not out :-/
And my mac wouldnt recognize the DVD player to try and record video out.. so it wouldnt send any video out...

[rand()]

Originally Posted by Texas04

And my mac wouldnt recognize the DVD player to try and record video out.. so it wouldnt send any video out...

Heh.. thought I would share this interesting tidbit - there's a way to trick it into recording the video. It goes something like this - plug in a second firewire video device. For example, if you hook up both your camcorder and the DVD stand-alone, you'll get the video on the stand-alone, in digital quality!

This obviously doesn't help if you're trying to burn a data DVD, but if you just want to dump some vid to DVD, it's pretty nice.

-rand()