phunkyb Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 I have a digital personal video recorder box. I rent it from cogeco and it gives me the ability to records, pause and fast forward live TV.My question is; is there a way to take the shows I have recorded and transfer them onto my laptop to burn them onto a DVD. I have an svideo cable and usb cable connection on the box. It is a Motorola box, anyone else have one of these or know how to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 There is a way, but I don't know how to do it. Check with Cogeco or Rogers. I believe it's as simple as running a cable (USB) out of the back into your computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunkyb Posted November 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 i checked with Cogeco, they were of no help.Been searching online too, can't seem to find any info on how to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Go to a computer store or a good independant audio/video store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunkyb Posted November 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Um, thanks for the suggestion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\/\/illy Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Technically you could 'play' a show back while you have your video card hooked to the outputs on the PVR and re-record the show. As far as just being able to copy the files off the HDD and redistribute or archive them, I believe they have specifically designed the device to prevent that. I use a Windows Media Centre PC to accomplish the same thing and it keeps things in nice files that I can move around or watch on other machines with the correct CODECs installed. Unfortunately it doesn't access my 'digital' cable without a kludgy 'USB based IR transmitter stuck to the IR receiver' solution that just isn't practical in my setup. I do however, expect to see video cards that are capable or reveiving digital and HD signals in the near future.The 'media centre' functionality is going to be included with some, if not all, versions of Vista from what I understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 There is at least one firewire port on those PVRs, but it is disabled. I've read that someone hooked up one of the Scientific Atlantic ones to a Mac and it RECOGNIZED IT! However, they couldn't get anything off of it.Check out this forum for ROGERS specific topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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