I have a Samsung DVD-SH893M PVR which normally seems fine. However, I have never really used the DVD rcording mode on it and only occasionally the DVD player so all my recordings are on the hard disk. Now I want to save some recordings onto DVD to clear some HD space but I am having real problems.

The main issue is that I cant seem to get a disk to format fully - Everytings starts OK but then the last few percent take for ever and then the disk seems to finish but in fact it fails. I have tried many brands and types of DVD disk including - and + versions.

Last night I got some new Sony DVD - disks and this time managed to get a recording onto a disk - I even watched it back - but then when I finalised the disk so I could use it on my other DVD player the recording seemed to fail and the disk is now unreradable on either the PVR or on a DVD player or on my PC.

As I have loads of stuff on the HD what are my options for geting it off and onto other media - or is there something I am not understanding. Help please.....