Thursday, May 14, 2020

DVR to COMPUTER?

Scot Sepulbeda: hi

Raye Tredennick: Generally cable company/satellite DVRs are specifically designed to prohibit this. You would have to open the DVR, remove the HDD, and plug it into a computer and hope it's not encrypted. That will void the warranty of the DVR and my experience with cableco DVRs is that they all overheat and you'll end up shelling out a ton of money to AT&T once yours dies because you opened it up. A much, much better option is to make your own DVR and use that to record your video from the outputs of the U-verse box. I use MythTV and since it runs on a regular computer that's mine, I can simply copy the video files to my other computers through the network, burn them to DVD, etc. I record 1080i HDTV from a DirecTV set-top box using an old Core Duo-era desktop and a Hauppauge HD-PVR #1212 and it works fine....Show more

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