easy to use DVR

Tom_M wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
While one could use screen recording software on a PC, the result is a vastly inferior quality recording that is limited to the screen resolution of the PC which will be less than HD quality.

PlayOn is indeed screen capture software. I haven't used it in quite a while but the recording was quite good. My present notebook is set at 1080 which is HD so PlayOn should make an HD recording. Many people are quite content with playing DVDs which are only 480.

Screen capture softwares generally will result in poorer looking captures than 480, it has to do with the fact that the PC must "play back" the stream to the video card, the capture software has to the "capture" in a flash each frame at a lower resolution then the software must now encode that with the sound (which by the way is the same process) and then it must now create a file and save that to the drive..

That is a lot to ask for most FAST PCs but if you do that on what most folks will have which is a laptop with a slower lower wattage processor and add on that BASIC video card the end result will look worse than a COPY of a VHS tape that was recorded at 6 hr speed.

It will not look or sound as good as the stream and some streams may not all that great to start with..

But, you also have made an "assumption" that the stream the OP is asking about can actually be "played" on a PC.. We do not know this, I do know that the information I found on Vizios own website is the is some sort of "mobile App", they don't mention Win10 PC compatible app.. Pretty fair chance that you are not going to get the stream to play on the PC making screen recording a moot point.

Additionally, as others and myself have pointed out, it is a "STREAMING" service and with STREAMING services the WHOLE point of them is so you CAN PLAY THE STREAM AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN..

In other words NO NEED TO "RECORD" THE STREAM since you can replay it as much as you want..

The TV does not have video outputs for a reason.

HDMI is also COPY PROTECTED for a reason.

It is not easy or worth recording these streams FOR A REASON.

Pretty much ALL streams are "encrypted" (copy protected) FOR A REASON.

ATTEMPTS to circumvent, decode, decrypt any streams in order to save them to your own personal drive or media is not "Fair use" and that includes screen recording..

Telling folks how to get around encrypted streams is the same as telling them how to "pirate" someone else s copyrighted works..

If you WANT a copy, then BUY a legit copy of the program, pretty much most titles of shows and movies are readily available for sale on DVD or BR, many of them not all that expensive.. Not like it was back when VHS and Beta came out and a Hollywood blockbuster movie was $79-$100..