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You may find that a number of devices doing these sort of recordings have the equivalent of digital protection on them to stop you effectively making a recording and then copying onto other media and effectively sharing the stuff you have created. It will be a copyright protection type thing. Pain in the backside for a home user wanting to copy on one home device, and watch elsewhere in the home, but thats the paranoia of rights holders for you. It's a bit like DVD playback on computers if often restricted to an output to a screen but making a copy of the DVD for archive becomes a challenge.