I have video card that lets me watch TV on my computer.  There have been a few times when I wish I could have burned the show to a DVD for viewing on our TV or somebody else's TV.  I've tried to do it from Windows Media Center but it never worked.  It would take hours and still nothing.

I discovered that I can take the DVR-MS file into Windows Movie Maker and create a DVD from there quite easily.  In addition I can cut out the front lead in and the garbage at the end of shows.  If I wanted I could even take out all the commercials.  That however would require more work than I want to invest.

I'm running Vista Ultimate with 4GB of memory and a dual core 2.4 GH processor.  It takes almost 1 hour for a 1 hour show, but I can do whatever else I want while it's working. 

I think at some point I will upgrade to a newer processor and a lot more memory in a newer computer.  I'd like to cut that time down to about a 3rd of that.