HDD or tv tuner?

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I have been asked by my boss to investigate the best way to record tv/private feeds to DVD. Currently we have a 2 x UPC digital boxes, which have digital to analogue converters on them (for what reason I don’t know), which are then fed to numerous tv’s throughout the office. We also have a private feed coming from another institution, which is fed via the same coax cable to the various tv’s and can be tuned in as if it were a normal channel. I’m not sure if this is a digital or analogue signal.

My boss wants to be able to record the private feeds and then burn them to dvd. He has suggested a HDD box. We already have one in one meeting room, a Sony DVD-870B, which I set up, and it works fine. I’m able to record and then burn to disc. However, this new device will be used and managed by an ordinary joe soap in their own office so it will have to be simple to use. The Sony HDR is staying put where it is.

Having done a little research, I can see that HDD boxes are a dying breed. If we were to purchase one, I would prefer to get a Panasonic as they are supposed to be a bit simpler to operate. I have also looked into buying a tv tuner card. I believe a Hauppauge WIN TV HVR-4400 would be the one to get as it’s half height pci express, does analogue and digital and can handle both mpeg2 and mpeg4. I would then need to fit a dvdrw drive into the person’s PC.

The person who wants to record/burn the feeds already has a tv in their office which is fed by a coax cable. I also want to future proof this so it would have to be capable of receiving both analogue and digital (mpeg4).
Any advice on what is the best method?

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Anybody?