Is it true you can hook up a dvr to your computer and download it's disc space?

Question

My dvr has two usb slots and am told I can download it's disc unto my computer

Answer 1

This is inaccurate. Tivo is the only DVR that allows you to transfer recorded shows over to your computer. As for cable and satellite DVR's, I believe there isn't a conventional way of transferring files over to your computer, such as through a serial or USB port. I believe the only way to do this is to pull out the hard drive and connect it to your computer. Even this, may not work due to the operating system, filing system or encoding system that your cable/satellite company may use.

Answer 2

Step a million, discover out how massive your stressful disc is Step 2, see if a number of it (or on occasion, as much as 0.5-3/4!) is taken up with a variety of of of: a/ restoration Partition b/ abode windows Autorecovery information the two are particularly pointless area hogs, incredibly in case you have have been given a partition taking over 0.5 the disc that holds not something yet reinstall advice and autorecovery information.... back that up onto DVD or in spite of, then wipe all however the essential stuff and flow your information in the time of into it (and disable Autorecovery - which will additionally supply you a velocity advance) Step 3, get something like 0 Assumption Disc area Visualiser (wow, pimping it two times in 2 posts - I promise, i don't paintings for them, and in spite of if I did this is in all probability dropping the money) to work out the place the vast majority of the information is getting used up on your HD, in case some folder is filling up with belongings you probably did not comprehend approximately. Step 4, sparkling this out if needed. Be careful of deleting gadget archives. purely kill stuff this is the two a/ massive (OR a lot of tiny/0-length* archives), b/ decidedly non-smart (ideally, back it up onto CD/DVD THEN nuke it) which you have have been given CHECKED the non-usefulness of, if this is not e.g. an obtrusive undesirable music document. * those nonetheless take in an entire disc block each and every, that's sometimes 4kb or greater. THEN get Ccleaner, and so on, to do an computerized sparkling up of everywhere else you have not regarded. Or, somewhat of adjusting the workstation, you may desire to get a great secondary stressful disc for little or no money (memory and disc advancements are chickenfeed good now). incredibly in case you like your P2P etc (which has in all probability filled your workstation with short-term archives, and if this is a form of dispensed hub issues, encrypted archives that at the instant are not even yours and are purely on their thank you to somebody else on the LW community), this could be appropriate, and as far as i be attentive to the Dell workstation computers are somewhat elementary to paintings on whilst it includes including drives and so on. this is all brightly colored plastic tabs and swing-doors, somewhat than a myriad of screws and sharp steel edges.