Video from DVR to DVD

Thanks to this step-by-step tutorial at Sourceforge.net, I was finally able to extract the video recordings from the DVR and burn them onto DVD. And, it's all free! All you need is a 6-pin to 4-pin IEEE-394 (FireWire) cable to hook up the DVR (in my case, it's a Motorola HDTV dual-tuner DVR, model # DCT-6412) to the PC. From the PC you can then burn the video onto DVD (you can even make anamorphic widescreen DVDs in 720p!)

This is great because if there's an awesome show that I recorded, that means I can preserve it on DVD instead of the show being stuck in the DVR.