I've owned a TiVo sine 2005, and I've done a helluva lot of taping through it. When I set up the wireless from my router to the DVR I was able to transfer things to the computer, watch them on Media Player (the only program I know which could read the "TiVo" extension) and then copy them to DVD.
When I was offered a "free" DVR from DirecTV (with an additional 2 year contract), I ordered it, but I'm now hearing from DirecTV that while I can "stream" to my computer, I can't actually copy the shows to there, and certainly won't be able to copy episodes onto DVDs!
Am I misinterpreting this information? And what do I need to even do that much? I'm told I don't need the separate wireless adapter, but I swear my IQ goes down a point every time I try to make sense of some of the directions at the site.
Any help, info, or whatever would be helpful.
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To my knowledge, DirecTV doesn't have a means to do that yet. I was told by a rep that I could "link" a PC via USB to one, and it would show up as a drive. What a dumbass he was to tall me that, and a dumbass I was to believe it.
Anyway, the only way to do what you want is to hook that thing up to a capture device on a PC and get it that way. TiVo has TivoDesktop for their units, not the DirecTV ones.
SOOOO...if your primary use will be to get stuff to the PC, don't accept the DVR from DirecTV, because it won't do it.
FYI - It CAN stream. However, last I checked, the software was still in beta, and didn't really work that well for me. I'll be ditching them as soon as I can. -
Originally Posted by funnel71
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What a bunch of hooey! To me, what I'm trying to do is the equivalent of copying shows to videotape. The DVDs last longer than tape, of course, and they're way easier to catalog. Very much useless if they can't be stored aside from the DVR.
Thanks for the info--I thought I was somehow misinterpreting information--now it appears I was correct in my original evaluation. -
Originally Posted by hyphenate
You would simply play the recorded show and record on the receiving device. Of course any onscreen graphics would show during recording. And depedning on your recording device fastforwarding through commercials while dubbing may not be a good idea (transfer rate and such stuff).
But as has been mentioned digitally transferring a recorded show as a simple video file is being severly restricted on cable/sat/fios machines.
If you're looking for high def captures try looking into a hauppauge hdpvr. I have one and can capture in high def widescreen with 5.1. Of course it is physically connected via component cables and a fiber optic cable for surround sound. And I have to make sure I am not recording anything that will end while I'm dubbing it. My motorola dvr from comcast has a nasty habit of showing "recording finished" when a show is done recording. I have not found anyway to disable this so I have to make sure I am not recording any show while dubbing to get a "clean" copy of the show that was recorded.
Hope this is helpful.Donatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
Originally Posted by hyphenate
Have no doubt about it, Hollywood is looking for ways to make you pay every time you view a movie. And to eliminate the first sale doctrine so you can't rent them. They have lots of money to spend lobbying congress and will continue to do so until they get what they want. -
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Originally Posted by hyphenate
I too can see a day when they only have an HDMI output -
Originally Posted by jjeff
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/hollywood-drives-us-
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http://www.curtpalme.com/Products.shtm#HDFury
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Well, I guess this answers the question of where my DirecTV DVR recording signal went, "the "do not record" signal" must be present when I try to record a DVR recording to my Sony VRD-MC6 recorder. The strange thing is that it seems to record "live" broadcasts OK, it's just when I try to do a program that was previously recorded on the DVR that the signal disappears.
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Originally Posted by dlcampbe
And all have to pay extra for this feature.
http://www.eff.org/issues/broadcast-flag
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2005/07/microsoft-sells-out-public-cgms
http://w2.eff.org/IP/broadcastflag/three_minute_guide.php
the Broadcast Flag as only the first step in a three-step plan. The next step is to lock down all devices that can create digital media from the world around us, like scanners, digital cameras, digital audio recorders, tuner cards, etc... The final step is to lock down the Internet itself, so that anyone making software would have to get it approved first
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization_Copyright_Treaty
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-provisions-three-strikes-and-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/15/eu_ratifies_copyright_treaty/ -
Originally Posted by dlcampbe
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