Hi! I can´t help you with that things, because I don´t live in the us. But a doubt came to my mind when you wrote down that your DVD players won´t play .avi files??? Really? how you record an episode? because my DVD player is so old and I can watch it on the DVD just I burned the episode in the Burner dvd of my lap, and that´s it. Because in that moment the files stop to being .avi
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So, do you have still problems?