TIVO home media to burn saved shows.

[Guest]

Is this process difficult?

[pyrohydra]

What kind of Tivo do you have? If you have one with a DVD recorder built-in, then I imagine it will be very easy to do. If not, you can always use the "Send to VCR" function and send it to a stand-alone DVD recorder (or an analog capture card).

Or, you can use the preferred method: extracting the recordings off of your Tivo to a PC over a network, and then doing whatever to the recordings once there. However this involves installing hacks on the Tivo.

[Guest]

What kind of Tivo do you have? If you have one with a DVD recorder built-in, then I imagine it will be very easy to do. If not, you can always use the "Send to VCR" function and send it to a stand-alone DVD recorder (or an analog capture card).

Or, you can use the preferred method: extracting the recordings off of your Tivo to a PC over a network, and then doing whatever to the recordings once there. However this involves installing hacks on the Tivo.

I would do it over a network and thought u just needed home media option to do this.

[gcutler]

The Home Media Option is supposed to allow

1) Moving of Pics and Music off of PC to TiVo
2) Transferring movies between multiple TiVos
3) Programming via the internet...

The whole extracting movies to PC is not part of the HMO and is only available via HACK, there was a survey about allowing it as part of a HMO+ or something like that, but it dosen't exist yet...

[pyrohydra]

I think Tivo would allow it, but they are afraid of getting sued by the likes of the MPAA and their ilk. I think they may eventually allow it for the stand-alone Tivos. Heck, they even sell units with built-in DVD recorders now. The Directivos however are a whole different story. The content providers are too paranoid that people would be able to copy the "perfect" digital content that DirecTv provides.

[DVDDave]

i have excellent success at pretending my TIVO is a VCR. i run the second out puts to my PC. sound going into the line in on the soundblaster and video going into a pinnacle av/dv capture card. believe it or not, i use sonic MY DVD, i tell it what the title of what i am recording is, i set it for the amount of time to capture, and then i walk away and come back an hour or so later and have a very high quality DVD!!!

[Meritocracy]

The existing DVDR units that also have Tivo built-in may sound like a great idea initially, then comes the realization that the units have crippled the ability for you edit ANY of the content on the HDD. Without this mandatory feature present units offering this at the moment are a joke IMHO.

[gcutler]

I think Tivo would allow it, but they are afraid of getting sued by the likes of the MPAA and their ilk. I think they may eventually allow it for the stand-alone Tivos. Heck, they even sell units with built-in DVD recorders now.

Thats exactly it...Nothing preventing it from being reality but legal issues (or threat of legal issue).

[andkiich]

As previously stated, the only way to get the content directly off the Tivo is to hack it.

I just use my TIVO as a VCR when copying things off of it. I get excellent results.

[Guest]

i have excellent success at pretending my TIVO is a VCR. i run the second out puts to my PC. sound going into the line in on the soundblaster and video going into a pinnacle av/dv capture card. believe it or not, i use sonic MY DVD, i tell it what the title of what i am recording is, i set it for the amount of time to capture, and then i walk away and come back an hour or so later and have a very high quality DVD!!!

As previously stated, the only way to get the content directly off the Tivo is to hack it.

I just use my TIVO as a VCR when copying things off of it. I get excellent results.

DVDDAVE-is your method using a hacked unit?


I could have sworn that somewhere on the tivo screeens or in the manual there is an option"copy to vcr"

[Gil T Pleasure]

Dr. Gee,

If so don't have a TiVo and you're planning on getting one, get a 5xxx series ReplayTV instead. With the use of an awesome software called DVArchive (freeware, btw), you can transform your PC into a virtual ReplayTV (ReplayPC) and transfer the shows off the ReplayTV unit to the ReplayPC, edit out the commericals and finally burn the finished product to DVD.

Gil

[Guest]

Thanks but I already have one. I did notice when I got home last night that there is indeed a save to vcr option on the tivo menu. Do you only need a hacked unit if u want to save it thru a network?

[pyrohydra]

Thanks but I already have one. I did notice when I got home last night that there is indeed a save to vcr option on the tivo menu. Do you only need a hacked unit if u want to save it thru a network?

Pretty much. There are many things that can be done with a hacked unit that couldn't be done otherwise.

[DVDDave]

i have excellent success at pretending my TIVO is a VCR. i run the second out puts to my PC. sound going into the line in on the soundblaster and video going into a pinnacle av/dv capture card. believe it or not, i use sonic MY DVD, i tell it what the title of what i am recording is, i set it for the amount of time to capture, and then i walk away and come back an hour or so later and have a very high quality DVD!!!

As previously stated, the only way to get the content directly off the Tivo is to hack it.

I just use my TIVO as a VCR when copying things off of it. I get excellent results.

DVDDAVE-is your method using a hacked unit?


I could have sworn that somewhere on the tivo screeens or in the manual there is an option"copy to vcr"

nope--my unit is not hacked--at least for copying. i just have the second set of outputs hooked up to mu capture and sound cards. it is hacked for capacity--two 160gig hard drives!!!