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.
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.
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
My son-in-law downloads his favorite shows from DVR to DVD, but I have no idea how he does it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The instructions for building one are all over the Net.
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Be careful, be very careful. Do research, research and research, but in the end be careful about the product model numbers. They can seem the same but one little letter can eliminate a feature you had seen on ever other one with an ‘almost’ exact number. And the HD symbol, most before a certain date don’t do HD. I thought I was being careful and got distracted and got what I thought I wanted but a different manufacturing year and it had no HD. And that in/out/cable/satellite/whatever makes it even more complicated and sometimes differ from cable company to cable company.
I’m just saying ‘be careful’.
Current DVRs make it difficult to do. It can be done relatively easy with ReplayTV DVRs. I’ve not done it, but a friend does. I don’t remember how involved it is, but my friend has harvested quite a few programs from his Replayer.