Saving from Uverse DVR

Unless you'd like to buy a brand new U-Verse Motorola receiver and be without U-verse service for a while: You can't and by all means shouldn't. TIA.

If the content isn't MACROVISION protected, you can record output to your DVD, VHS, or PC.

 

Does the U-Verse DVR have video/audio outputs? I haven't checked mine, so I don't really know.

If it does, you could perhaps use the outputs and plug 'em into a video capture card on your computer and record them that way. From what I've googled, however, the videos are split up and encrypted on the U-Verse DVR, so you can't just do some straight copy even if you could access the HDD.

 

And in my post above, I meant the "moving" part.

File this under "DUH." How else can you see it on your TV? The answer is YES, OF COURSE.

Currently, I have HDMI out to TV and Composite going out to my DVD recorder. I have many a Mexico football games I've recorded from Telemundo.

 

I've used a video capture card for sd stuff.

 

if the DVR has an eSata port, you might be able to copy it to an external HD, the plug that into your PC/Mac and go from there. not sure about copy protection, but i'd be surprised if there wasn't a program out there that would strip it out.

 

^ You're already talking about opening up your receiver. That's what SHE said.

That's a NO NO. Don't do it, man! Don't do it!

 

Yeah, that would be a DUH moment. I guess I was speaking more about composite output rather than HDMI output, but considering it records HD and SD, it probably has both.

 

(1) As some have already said, you can send composite out from the DVR box to the inputs on a DVD recorder; however, this is analog and not hi def.

(2) There are ports on the DVR, but I believe they are all disabled. (I'm not at home right now, so I can't indicate which ports are there).

(3) Theoretically, you could run the HDMI output from the DVR box into a device that can capture and record from an HDMI hi def source (doing a straight digital capture, without going to analog). If you discover such a device, please let me know!

(4) It is theoretically possible to open it up and access the internal hard drive. I wouldn't know how to do this, and I would think that this would violate some warranty or something.

 

Run it to your VHS, put a blank tape in that mug, and hit record, worked for years for me

 

Something like this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=hdmi_input_card-_-15-100-049-_-Product

 

Looks like that might do it.

 

That's what SHE said.

 

Even if you connect a DVD-Recorder or HDMI out to your PC with one of them HDMI input cards like Señor TSchmal kindly found for us... drumroll [prrrrrrrrrrrr...] and [prrrrrrr] some shows don't even let you record on your VCR or DVDs. That's the case with The Office. I have last season's episodes... and I can't record them onto my DVD recorder... damn you MACROvision... or whatever the heck that is...

THERE IS, however and if you look well enough through a GOOGLE search, a MacroVision decrypter, but it is only for COMPOSITE, not HDMI or COMPONENT video.

Maybe since it is a card on a PC, it will let you record, since that won't have MACROVISION or that protecting thingie to not let you.

 

Your age is showing, my friend.

You're sending an analog feed (containing macrovision, presumably) to a dvd recorder.

The video capture card that was mentioned earlier would do a digital hi-def capture, with no macrovision.

 

No, no... it's a DIGITAL feed, sir. It's through COMPONENT cables to the DVD recorder. Last I heard, those are digital...

Plus, I ended that there post above with "Maybe since it is a card on a PC, it will let you record, since that won't have MACROVISION or that protecting thingie to not let you"... so I think that covers my "age"...

 

Incorret - component is analog.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video

Component video is a video signal that has been split into two or more components. In popular use, it refers to a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as three separate signals.

 

What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_component_video ?? Can't I be using that?

How is it, then, that I was able to get HDTV using COMPONENT CABLES through my US Digital over-the-air HD receiver to my Hitachi 1080i Projection TV way back when I didn't have U-verse? Isn't HDTV Digital?