I have a High Defenition DVR from Directv. I would like to archive my recordings in HD to my computer. I know the information is encrypted but does anyone know if there is a software out there that can accomplish this?
2006-06-13 07:46:34 · 5 answers · asked by James T 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TiVO & DVRs
The key thing is that the info is encrypted. I can't use a tuner card for these reason.
2006-06-13 08:44:39 · update #1
Too my knowledge you can't record HD content from a DVR to your PC yet or ever. However ATI is coming out with a read HD recorder that works with your cable connection instead of it current product that just records over the air HD signals. Check out http://engadget.com/2006/01/06/atis-ocur-worlds-first-cablecard-hdtv-tuner-for-vista-pcs
The only bad this is that you have to wait for Windows Vista to come out for it to work and you have to upgrade to the new Windows operating system.
Hope this helps. Sorry there's nothing better out right now. It really sucks. I'm sure if there was it was sell pretty well. I'm sure there's going to be copy protection too. So don't get you hopes up for sharing copy righted movies with your friends. :( "You BASTARDS!" as Kyle from South Park would say. lol
2006-06-14 09:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by leof 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Too bad your DVR doesn't have a built DVD burner. My burned DVR disks(not high def) can be read on any computer DVD drive. My DVR also burns to reusable DVD-RAM disks which my computers have special drives to read those too.
What I'd would do is get a second DVR with a burner and record the AV outputs of the HD DVR. This will only work with a Macrovision free video signal of course. The quality won't be as good as High Def, but you will get DVD like quality thought. Plenty good enough video for any AVI encoder to work with. I would also be recording to DVD-RAM disks because they can be reused up to 100,000 times.
2006-06-15 05:12:03 · answer #2 · answered by biller19 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no there is not but you can still do it. its not very easy or convienent but you need a HD tv tuner card for your PC. then you hook up the DVR to the tuner card and PLAY the recording. on the tuner card interface (software) you RECORD the channel that the recording is playing on. so its kind of like dubbing a tape or doing a VCR toVCR recording. some tuner cards are ATI HD TV PRO or MIT labs cards.
2006-06-13 14:53:43 · answer #3 · answered by phxem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
urrrm well you have done the right thing buying a hd recorded they are great there is no software at the moment that i am aware of as this in affect would be piracy try calling the manafactuer of the the company/place of which you purchased it also keep looking on the web on blogs try google it is a very powerfully search engine also as a last resort you could look in the insruction manual or even better buy a satellite that supports this feature !!!!!!!!11
2006-06-13 14:54:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll need to purchase a IEEE-1394. Connect your RCA cables (red,white,yellow) into the composite. I may even want to use an S-Video cable too.
2006-06-13 14:51:14 · answer #5 · answered by Kyle W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋