Attention techies. Do DVD recorders allow you to record from a cable's DVR recorder? (vanity)

10/08/10 | me

[Doogle]

I'm interested in buying a DVD recorder. My main reason is to allow me to record certain programming for easy reference. After recording a program on my cable company's DVR and it's saved, you get the options, and one of those options is "record to VCR"....are there DVD recorders out there that allow you to record SAVED DVR programs? The reason I ask is you get people saying it's difficult because most DVD recorders don't have tuners. That's not my problem, or inquire, I don't want to record "live" broadcasts, just the ones I've saved digitally on the cable DVR.

[Doogle]

Appreciate any info from those who know. Maybe suggestions of models and set up options,likes dislikes.

[earlJam]

DVRs are designed to keep you from copying to another computer.

It has to be possible. But i have not been able to figure out how to do it.

And I had a techie kid tell me that he could not do it either.

[Codeflier]

At the very least it can always be done via outputting from your DVR to a the DVD recorder’s input. I do it all the time.

[Mr. K]

do a google search to see if anyone has cracked a device to allow you to do that

I am annoyed byt the limitted space I have for storage, and the lack of ability to group items into logical storage

[Marylander]

My son-in-law downloads his favorite shows from DVR to DVD, but I have no idea how he does it.

[J40000]

Yes. I’m no ‘techie’, but I have a DVR where my family ‘records’ practically EVERYTHING.

I had to go buy a dvd recorder so that I could put MY stuff onto dvd so that I can delete it from the DVR memory periodically.

[ClearCase_guy]

Are you saying that you stick a cable in here and the other end of the cable in there and then push the "record" button and you are good to go?

I have not found it to be quite so easy, but maybe I don't own the right hardware.

[tje]

Look here:

http://dvr.about.com/od/howtos/ht/htDVRtoDVD.htm

[kevkrom]

Video out jacks from DVR into video in jacks of the DVD recorder. As easy as that, seriously.

What I’ve had trouble with is HD programming on the DVR. I actually have to tell the DVR to convert the signal down to 480 so the DVD recorder can understand the signal — it could be that I just have a piece of junk DVD recorder.

[tje]

Look here:

http://dvr.about.com/od/howtos/ht/htDVRtoDVD.htm

[Ron H.]

At the very least it can always be done via outputting from your DVR to a the DVD recorder’s input. I do it all the time.

Bingo!

[Doogle]

that’s what I was looking for ...Thank You. I guess I worded it wrong when looking for DVD recorders. It’s that cable co DVR that has me puzzled, or hesitant.

[ShadowAce]

[monocle]

Look at Magnavox’s hard disk recorder. You can record on a dvd disk or on the hard drive from which you can copy to a dvd disk.

[MomwithHope]

My hubby hooked up (easily) a terrabyte hard drive to our DVR. The DVR can only store 500 hours and with the terrabyte, well we have over 200 movies saved and lots of space still. It shows up in the DISH menu as My Media. You can add and remove easily from their menu.Typically we record to the DVR and if we want to save it, it goes onto the hard drive.

[rarestia]

Go to mythtv.org and do some research. You cannot use a DVD-R to burn live shows, but you can compile and burn saved TV shows if you use certain software.

MythTV is a Linux-based DVR program that runs on any PC. I’m using an old Pentium III mobo with 3 GB RAM and a 1 TB disk as my TV box, and it works incredibly well. Replaces the receiver from your cable company as well.

[ShadowAce]

If you want to get away from the commercial DVR you have in order to copy to DVD, etc. then build your own DVR. It's really nothing more than a computer with a hard drive.

The instructions for building one are all over the Net.

[NavyCanDo]

Being a moviehound myself, I have only purchased DVR-Recorders that you could burn from its hard drive onto a DVD. I'm on my 3rd unit, after burning out the first two with a couple of thousand DVDs made.
Now the ones that Cable companies supply, I don't know if you can do that. I think they are more like TIVO units, where you can record to its HD for later viewing, but can't burn.

[BikerJoe]

My hubby hooked up (easily) a terrabyte hard drive to our DVR. The DVR can only store 500 hours and with the terrabyte, well we have over 200 movies saved and lots of space still. It shows up in the DISH menu as My Media. You can add and remove easily from their menu.Typically we record to the DVR and if we want to save it, it goes onto the hard drive.

Yes, but DVRs typically encrypt the video. You can watch it all you want on the DVR, but I think you'll find that if you take that terabyte hard drive and connect it to your computer, you won't be able to do anything with the video.

You can play it as analog video to your dvd recorder and record it that way.

[nikos1121]

Are you sure about that?