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Originally Posted by caph
Stuart, are you sure about this? I know that section 27 sub-section 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows "making a single accessible copy for personal use".
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"accessible" is the key word here (see section 31A). It is in relation to making copies for the visually impaired. For example, if you bought a book but the print was too small for you to read, you would be permitted to make a copy with larger print if a large-print version wasn't commercially available.
I'm not going to enquire into your personal circumstances, but I can't think of any way that having a DVD copy would let you access a recording that you couldn't access on the TiVo.
In general, the only lawful copies you can make in a domestic environment are for time-shifting purposes. Your TiVo already meets that requirement.