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Q: On DVD recorders, what is the difference between one that has a ‘tuner’ and one that is ‘tunerless’? Why is one preferable to the other?

A: A tuner in this case is actually just like the tuner you would have in most TVs. This means you could directly connect the coax from your cable company or the coax from your antenna and you could control what channel your DVR would see. Read the rest of this entry »

Q: I have a zone pzn6190 dvd recorder with a seagate 250gig hdd. I would like to know if i can hook the drive to my windows xp comp and if there is any software I can use to resize the partition in raw format as the partition space allocated to hold any video files I have transferred from an external device just not big enough to hold those files (roughly 5 gigs, I wish to resize it to about 100gig). The only software that is available that resizes partitions in fat, fat32, ntfs, etc but haven’t found any for raw.