How do I copy DVR recording to laptop
My wife has hundreds of things recorded, well maybe not hundred but a lot, on the DVR from the cable company. She wants many of them converted to DVD for traveling. When I had a DVD recorder, I coul...
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It depends on your Cable-Co, mine (Wave) has their Motorola DVR programed to be stupid if it's powered up and not connected to the cable system and able to talk to their up-stream equipment
I learned this a couple winters ago, after a major storm outage, we got power back before the Cable-Co box upstream of us. So we couldn't watch any of the programing we had recorded.
I have a box connected to my computer (with software) that allows me to record any NTSC, clear-QAM or ATSC direct to my computer. That's the only easy way I have to record TV to an un-encoded format.
It depends on your Cable-Co, mine (Wave) has their Motorola DVR programed to be stupid if it's powered up and not connected to the cable system and able to talk to their up-stream equipment
I learned this a couple winters ago, after a major storm outage, we got power back before the Cable-Co box upstream of us. So we couldn't watch any of the programing we had recorded.
I have a box connected to my computer (with software) that allows me to record any NTSC, clear-QAM or ATSC direct to my computer. That's the only easy way I have to record TV to an un-encoded format.
