Recording TV shows

I have DirecTivo HD and would like to find a good way to record shows onto DVD. Can I do that with my Imac even though its located in the den?
I do have a powermac, but with only 40 gb hard drive (and most of that's used). Thanks.

Whatever you do, your first question is, what outputs does the Tivo have?
You don't say where your den is relative to your Tivo. But if you can run a firewire cable from your Tivo to your Mac, you can use iMovie to import and edit the video, and iDVD to burn DVDs.
If the Tivo doesn't have a firewire output, you'll need a video converter. They start at about $100. Data Video and Canopus have them, among others. Amazon carries some, and eBay is always a possibility. Most will accept either component video or S-Video input, and firewire output.
There are other, extra-cost products besides iMovie and iDVD. I don't think there's anything that will accept video onto a Mac via USB -- they all want firewire.
You might also investigate stand-alone DVD burners, similar to VCRs. Might be less hassle, but of course less flexibility (harder to skip commercials, etc., which is a snap in iMovie). Ditto Amazon and eBay as sources.

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It appears I may have mis-reported some information during my earlier post(sorry!). It appears that on the Intel Mac Mini, the clips will play fine in full-screen through QuickTime, but suffer quite badly when played back through FrontRow - as I mentioned earlier, the file jerks every second or so. (QT Playback on the other machines seems to vary in quality - but I am not as concerned about this at the moment - I just want to be able to view these videos in FrontRow!).
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I am looking to use the Mac Mini as a HTPC - I have it hooked up to my TV and am hoping to use it to play recorded TV shows from my Windows box. I've only had the box a couple of days, and am quite surprised that a dual core intel machine is struggling so badly with a simple mpeg2 file that my old 1ghz windows laptop will quite happily play!!
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