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Old 09-17-2024, 11:55 PM
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Default Recording What Is Saved On Your DVR Cable Box.

I get my TV channels through a DVR that I rent from my cable company. On which I have quite a number of programs saved. Years ago I used to have one that went bad. Though I could view the programs I had saved on it, it stopped being able to record new programs. I had to get a new DVR from the cable company.

That means all the programs I had saved on my old DVR were lost. I asked the cable company if there was any way to record what was saved on the hard drive of their DVR's. Of course they said there wasn't. All of their programming that you can see on your TV has HDMC protection. Or DRM protection. That is because they want to keep people from being able to save copyrighted programming. But there used to be a time when you could record and save anything you wanted with a VCR. I don't think that the digital age should be allowed to take that ability away from people.

This sent me on a quest to find a way of doing it. Though it took some doing, I did it! I can now record and save to a USB drive anything that my TV is showing. If I choose to, that includes any pay per view movie. In HD. Would you like to know how I did it? I bet you would. And I would tell you. Except for one thing. Just about everybody I have run across at this forum is a god damned troll. Most of whom I put on my ignore list. So you cal all suck it!


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Old 09-18-2024, 12:42 AM
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Well, I am happy for you.
Everyone should have a hobby.

Our granddaughter rigged up something like that on her home server, and we can all connect to it, and watch all sorts of flicks and concerts and shit.
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One advantage to being a pig-ignorant moron is that you can learn something that most other people already know, and it feels like a brilliant discovery.
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i made slashdot once for writing an article about doing this, back when the TiVo was new.

fwiw, i would not describe this as a particularly advanced or tricky thing. this is like finding someone who claims to have discovered the most amazing thing, which is that if you put a piece of paper in the copier, there is a secret way you can duplicate images on that piece of paper, which he discovered after spending several days scouring the internet to find the phrase "PUSH THE BIG GREEN BUTTON", but he's not going to tell us how because imagining it's a major discovery makes him feel good.
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