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Capture HD Recordings from DVR
Hello, Some Joe. I'm glad I found this thread from 2010. I have a dilemma. Seems that my DVR stopped working on Sunday night. After going through all of the troubleshooting with AT&T, they told me they are sending a new DVR. I asked how I can get the recordings off of the old DVR and they said, "You can't." I researched the Hauppauge PVR and it seems like it would work.
My question is this - can I take the DVR and bring it upstairs to my computer and hook it up without the TV? All I want to do is pull the recordings from the DVR, put them on my PC, and then make DVD's out of them. I especially need to get the Rolling Stones PPV concert off of there. Breaks my heart that I could possibly lose that forever.
Before I buy this thing, I'd like to know if I'll be able to use it. Thanks so much!
super-ice
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9 years ago
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dhascall
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9 years ago
@super-ice The DVR's are not owned by the subscriber, they are owned by the company. There is no, as far as we know, company blessed way of swapping drives. It may be a moot point, at some time, if they go to cloud based DVR storage.
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chaseyoboy
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8 years ago
Im trying to move recordings to my usb storage i have plugged in the box. Can i do that and how
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mibrnsurg
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8 years ago
@chaseyoboy The usb is only good for charging cell phones and other devices by usb. No data connection whatsoever. 😉
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JefferMC
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8 years ago
@chaseyoboy, the USB port on the DVR (and other U-verse TV Receivers) only provides power on the USB port. You cannot usefully hook up any kind of USB Storage to it. You cannot transfer recordings from you U-verse DVR by any mechanism other than playing them back and re-recording them on the device that you're playing them back to. There are many video-capture devices that will accept the Coax or Composite video outputs from the U-verse Receivers. The HD outputs are copy protected.
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cia.jfr
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7 years ago
Thanks!
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That Don Guy
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7 years ago
You hook up your "recording device" to the set-top box as if it was a TV. You can have two things hooked up to the same box; for example, connect the box to a TV using HDMI, and also to a recording device (like a Hauppauge box) using component cables.
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