Get shows off of DVR onto computer

[angrymissy]

I'm ditching cablevision for FIOS tomorrow, and have shows I haven't watched yet on my cablevision DVR.

Is there any way for me to take the shows off the DVR and throw them on my comp or something?

[topless_mike]

loooooooooooooooove my FIOS.

but the on-demand is not much to be desired.

[topless_mike]

could you bust that bitch open and plug the hd into your comp as a slave drive?
you might be able to pull everything off that way.

it'll void your warranty, but um, you dropping them, so i dont think it would matter.

[foodcourtdruide]

loooooooooooooooove my FIOS.

but the on-demand is not much to be desired.

If something is not much to be desired, wouldn't that mean it's really good?

[topless_mike]

If something is not much to be desired, wouldn't that mean it's really good?

its sub par compared to comcast on-demand.

my verbatum is a lil off today.

[Walt1028]

could you bust that bitch open and plug the hd into your comp as a slave drive?
you might be able to pull everything off that way.

it'll void your warranty, but um, you dropping them, so i dont think it would matter.

Only problem is that everything will be encrypted and you won't be able to watch them.

Really the only way to do is to rerecord them on to tape/dvd or if you have a tv tuner or other video input on your computer you can rerecord them on to your computer

[hunnerbun]

I seem to recall one of my clients a couple of weeks ago talking about something her husband did. He hooks up an external HD to the PVR and transfers everything to that then when they want to watch them they just transfer them back. I think that's what she said. It might work.

[angrymissy]

We ended up just watching like 8 hours of DVR straight the night before, ugh

[SP1!]

I seem to recall one of my clients a couple of weeks ago talking about something her husband did. He hooks up an external HD to the PVR and transfers everything to that then when they want to watch them they just transfer them back. I think that's what she said. It might work.

Oh I need more info on how that set up works, Im just thinking of using an old desktop and getting a video in card then also a 1 TB drive to make my own DVR and tell them to screw off.

[boosterp]

Only problem is that everything will be encrypted and you won't be able to watch them.

Really the only way to do is to rerecord them on to tape/dvd or if you have a tv tuner or other video input on your computer you can rerecord them on to your computer

Yea, it's not in a format your computer is familiar with. But there are programs out there that solves this problem, it's just I might get banned for pointing people to them.

[duck_of_death]

I work for a cable company and this is a question that I get all the time from customers.The simplest solution is to get a gadget called a NEUROS OSD. It is extremely useful for getting things off of a DVR or for converting DVDS. Simply plug it into the RCA output of your DVR,attach it to a USB enabled hard drive, and plug it into your TV.

There are two drawbacks to this device: First off, it only supports analog programming. Second, it has to record in real time.

Walt is correct that the data on the drive is encrypted and cannot be taken directly off the drive.

Hopefully this will help.

[PD]

what duck was basically saying is you can use the "record to vcr" function to record the stuff either to a vcr (if you still have one) or to a video in on the computer if you have one.
Ive done that - recording it to my ATI All-In-Wonder vid card.
the other thing you can do is walt was saying - back it up to an esata drive; however i don't know if the fios dvr has same format or not.

Im not sure what program boosterp was referring to; however I find these kind of questions are often answered on this board: AVSForum.com (http://www.avsforum.com/)