Can I transfer movie from Directv DVR receiver to my external HD?

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

My HD is getting full and want to delete my DVR, but i have like 10 movies i wanted to transfer over

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[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

No, that would be illegal.... DTV disables the usb port on their DVR's I think. only way would be to use a video capture card

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

No, that would be illegal.... DTV disables the usb port on their DVR's I think. only way would be to use a video capture card

why would it be illegal tho? If i paid $55 for a PPV or I have a bunch of shows I wanted to transfer or use elsewhere whats the big deal? If I bought/watched it on my tv then I think I should be able to do whatever i want with them.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[4solobaricz 10+ year member]

x2!!!

 

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

well it is called Pay-Per-View, so your supposed to pay everytime you wanna watch. But i agree with ya.

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

well it is called Pay-Per-View, so your supposed to pay everytime you wanna watch. But i agree with ya.

Yea i understand I guess.. But I just dont get why if i buy a ppv movie or event , it still stays in my HD ( dvr ) .. Not complaining, but just thought it would delete itself after 48 hours or so //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

why would it be illegal tho? If i paid $55 for a PPV or I have a bunch of shows I wanted to transfer or use elsewhere whats the big deal? If I bought/watched it on my tv then I think I should be able to do whatever i want with them.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

It's called Copyright. That's COPY-right. The right to make copies. No, you do not have the right to do what ever you want them, the people who own the copyright does. You paid for a singe viewing right, not for copies, distrobution, resale or broadcast. Consumer digital gear has all these special codes built in to prevent additional copies because the public is stupid and would just make copies and give them away or even sell them to friends and destory the industry. Which is basically what has happened to music. One person buys an album, puts it online and "shares" it with 2 million of his closest friends. That's 2 million people who stole the album instead of buying it. Movies and books are the same.

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

It's called Copyright. That's COPY-right. The right to make copies. No, you do not have the right to do what ever you want them, the people who own the copyright does. You paid for a singe viewing right, not for copies, distrobution, resale or broadcast. Consumer digital gear has all these special codes built in to prevent additional copies because the public is stupid and would just make copies and give them away or even sell them to friends and destory the industry. Which is basically what has happened to music. One person buys an album, puts it online and "shares" it with 2 million of his closest friends. That's 2 million people who stole the album instead of buying it. Movies and books are the same.

Music artists could try their hardest not to produce absolute shit. RIAA could probably try to adapt to digital instead of outright attacking.

No artist goes bankrupt cause of stolen cd's. Nothing will. For every person who copies, there are sold out shelves of the same material. Pirating is a bullshit, crybaby excuse for industries producing shit and not adapting.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

I wanted to do the same thing with my Comcast DVR. There are things you can do, but they void the warranty on the DVR and the company can tell if youve altered them. Its easier to find what you have online and download them.

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

Why not just Hook up a down-stream recorder via a thru-input? May not be a digital format but who cares? the quality on most of them **** anyway.

Simple way to do it is with a DVD-R and then convert the file to whatever format you want for digital storage.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Why not just Hook up a down-stream recorder via a thru-input? May not be a digital format but who cares? the quality on most of them **** anyway.
Simple way to do it is with a DVD-R and then convert the file to whatever format you want for digital storage.

That defeats the entire purpose of paying $55 for an HD PPV and not having it in HD. Also defeats the purpose of an HD TV.

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

Music artists could try their hardest not to produce absolute shit. RIAA could probably try to adapt to digital instead of outright attacking.
No artist goes bankrupt cause of stolen cd's. Nothing will. For every person who copies, there are sold out shelves of the same material. Pirating is a bullshit, crybaby excuse for industries producing shit and not adapting.

This is just ignorant.

In 2004, there were an estimated 70 million people participating in online file sharing.[44] According to a CBS News poll, nearly 70 percent of 18 to 29 year olds thought file sharing was acceptable in some circumstances and 58 percent of all Americans who followed the file sharing issue considered it acceptable in at least some circumstances.[45]In January 2006, 32 million Americans over the age of 12 had downloaded at least one feature length movie from the Internet, 80 percent of whom had done so exclusively over P2P. Of the population sampled 40 percent felt that downloading copyrighted movies and music off the Internet constituted a very serious offense, compared with 78 percent who felt that of taking movies and music from a store.[46]

In February 2008 the LA Times Blog published results of a US campus attitude survey which showed that 64 percent of respondents download music regularly through file-sharing networks and other unauthorized sources. The respondents were also asked to rate on a 1 to 7 scale "how nervous they were about being punished for illegal downloading" (1 being "not concerned" and 7 being "extremely concerned"), two-thirds answered 1 (43 percent) or 2 (24 percent). Only 4 percent answered 5 or 6, and none answered 7, "extremely concerned".[47][48]

In July 2008, 20 percent of Europeans used file sharing networks to obtain music, while 10 percent use paid-for digital music services such as iTunes.[49]

In February 2009, a Tiscali UK survey found 75 percent of the American public polled were aware of what was legal and illegal in relation to their file sharing. However, there was a divide as to where they felt the legal burden should be placed; 49 percent of people believed P2P companies should be held responsible for illegal file sharing on their networks, 18 percent viewed individual file sharers as the culprits, while 18 percent either didn’t know or chose not to answer.[50] In the same survey, 60 percent of people reported downloading music because of a limited budget. A common attitude concerning music downloading was that of ‘why should one pay for something when they can get it for free?'

According to an earlier poll, 75 percent of young voters in Sweden (18-20) supported file sharing when presented with the statement: "I think it is OK to download files from the Net, even if it is illegal." Of the respondents, 38 percent said they "adamantly agreed" while 39 percent said they "partly agreed".[51]

In a Major Corporation. A thousand dolar loss is a huge deal that has the potential to get people fired.

In the entertainment industry, those losses are in the millions and the only reason it happens is because there is no good way to stop it.

Sure the industry is not desolate, but keep up the free-marketing bullshit and there won't be any entertainment industry left.

Take TV for example. In the pre- "reality TV" era. You had talented actors being paid well and producing great shows. Well with the rise of these MTV and VH1 reality shows, major networks started catering to the call for cheap to produce entertainment.

Why pay a cast of 5 well-known actors 100,000 per episode, when 10 people will sell their freakin soul to be on TV for the chance to win 500,000.

And then we evolve from game-show Reality TV to shows about people no one cares about. Camera men literally follow some loser around and the "oh so soft" young minds of America's magnificent future are led like cattle to the slaughter to believe anything they see on TV is the "real world." (give me a freakin break.)

And now the profits of the entertainment and TV industry are cut to fractions of what they once were.

I mean seriously, How many bachlorette spin offs are we going to stomach before we realize how fvcking stupid they are. It's sad that this shit passes for quality programming.

And you people wonder why the world is heading down the shit hole? Media/TV influences the average American life more than any other factor.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I wanted to do the same thing with my Comcast DVR. There are things you can do, but they void the warranty on the DVR and the company can tell if youve altered them. Its easier to find what you have online and download them.

Yup, //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif You can dl stuff in HD now too..

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

That defeats the entire purpose of paying $55 for an HD PPV and not having it in HD. Also defeats the purpose of an HD TV.

No it doesn't.

when you buy a pay-per-view movie, you aren't buying a digital copy of the movie, you are buying the right to view it for a set amount of time.

If you keep the movie, you are doing it illegally. Period.

So I'm telling you that yes you can rig your DVR to illegally download your pay-per-view movies to permanent storage, and easily end up in jail.

Or you can hook up an unformatted raw signal receiver and have an un-traceable and reliable method of illegally ripping off your movies.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

This is just ignorant.

In a Major Corporation. A thousand dolar loss is a huge deal that has the potential to get people fired.

In the entertainment industry, those losses are in the millions and the only reason it happens is because there is no good way to stop it.

Sure the industry is not desolate, but keep up the free-marketing bullshit and there won't be any entertainment industry left.

Take TV for example. In the pre- "reality TV" era. You had talented actors being paid well and producing great shows. Well with the rise of these MTV and VH1 reality shows, major networks started catering to the call for cheap to produce entertainment.

Why pay a cast of 5 well-known actors 100,000 per episode, when 10 people will sell their freakin soul to be on TV for the chance to win 500,000.

And then we evolve from game-show Reality TV to shows about people no one cares about. Camera men literally follow some loser around and the "oh so soft" young minds of America's magnificent future are led like cattle to the slaughter to believe anything they see on TV is the "real world." (give me a freakin break.)

And now the profits of the entertainment and TV industry are cut to fractions of what they once were.

I mean seriously, How many bachlorette spin offs are we going to stomach before we realize how fvcking stupid they are. It's sad that this shit passes for quality programming.

And you people wonder why the world is heading down the shit hole? Media/TV influences the average American life more than any other factor.

If they wouldnt charge $10+ for a CD that costs .75 to make then nobody would steal shit. Same thing goes for pirated software. CAD software for example can go for $2-$3Gs for the suite for a single license. Nobody is going to pay that except a corporation that strictly does that or a school that teaches that.

People steal CDs because they arent going to pay $10+ for a CD that has 1 good song. There arent very many CDs that are good from the front to back.

To add to your little quote:

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-research-p2p-filesharing-no-barrier-to-music-sales/

93% of fileshares buy and of those 93%, 47% of people buy the same amount of music as they used to, and 19% still buy but not as much. You cant use pirating as an excuse. Like BDS says its a bullshit cry baby excuse. Produce better shit and people will pay simple as that.