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

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

OP check this out sumvision cyclone micro. Im pretty sure its a USB thumb drive with some softmod software on it than enables your USB ports on your DVR. From there you can transfer all the shit you like. Or you can look into WDTV which is a hardware mod for it.

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

Music should never be about the money, some of the best music out there comes from the bands who aren't signed...Your trying to say that because they can't get rich off it, less people are starting bands? Well that's fine then, because the bands that are just looking to make money don't deserve to exist anyway.

Hey so should your job. Humans should want to better man-kind instead of just themselves. But they don't. A person can't be a musician because he can't turn down the opportunity to make steady money at a day job.

So according to you, if someone has musical talent, they should become poor and ride around in a van selling their records to you for 5$ and live off T-shirt money? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif:laugh://content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Good god thats a great incentive to become a musician.

I already said that bands make their money from touring and merchandise. I'd rather pay 5$ for a cd from a band that burned it in their basement because I know 100% of my money is going to the band. Where in the other case you pay 15$ for a cd in the store, and a huge cut goes to the record label, and the recording studio, etc, etc. I love how you automatically assume since I disagreed with you that I'm a huge pirate. If you read back through this thread you'll see that I already stated I buy all my music. I pirate it to demo it, if I like it, I buy the cd, if I don't like it, it get's deleted.

These are some ignorant statements.

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

I already said that bands make their money from touring and merchandise.

No, they don't. That's actually the area I work in. Live music venues have also melted down and closed down. Fewer bands can play live and fewer people pay to see live music than ever. Thanks to pirating, rising costs for the venue and fewer people going out for entertainment when they can stay home play X-box, order a pizza and download their music/movies.So it's okay for them to "get rich" off performance and merch, but not for the music they sell? Live performance is completly seperate business from recorded music. You're saying the only way a "musician" can make a living is as a "performer" living on the road out of a suitcase? A home life is not allowed? So Bethoven and Gershwin are deuchebags because they didn't tour? How is that an incentive to make better music for you? Assholes then pirate video our live shows and post them on youtube, so others don't have to pay for the show.

I'd rather pay 5$ for a cd from a band that burned it in their basement because I know 100% of my money is going to the band. Where in the other case you pay 15$ for a cd in the store, and a huge cut goes to the record label, and the recording studio, etc, etc.

I've never seen a band sell a CD for $5. Do you think recording studios and record labels are getting "rich" off this? Then why are they closing? It's a business and the investment has to be paid back. You pay more for a quick lunch than a $15 CD you cheap bastard. How much is a tank of gas? $45. Not long ago is was less than $20. Yet, a CD is still $12-$15. That $15 has to pay for the store front you bought it from, the marketing and distrubution to get it to you, duplication house, publication and licensing, recording studio, producer, engineer, band gear and finally the band. Do have any idea how much a concert piano costs? $130,000!!! A mixing console? Studio monitors? Not every musician wants to work in their basement on shitty gear saving up thier pennies to buy another batch of t-shirts to sell. Yo-Yo Ma does not. Sting does not. Aretha Franknlin does not. The Clash, Rolling Stones and the Beatles did not.

I love how you automatically assume since I disagreed with you that I'm a huge pirate. If you read back through this thread you'll see that I already stated I buy all my music. I pirate it to demo it, if I like it, I buy the cd, if I don't like it, it get's deleted.

You are arguing for pirating and against the "rich" evil music business that provides you with the very product you steal. Pirating a "demo" is theft. I have bought lots of albums that after I got them home I didn't care for them that much. Some of them later became some of my favorite albums after a while. I paid for the "demo" as you call it. You're a thief.

It's amazing how people can argue for pirating and not realize their theft hurts the musicians they are stealling from. You actually believe that condeming all "musicians" to living out of a van, selling T-shirts and basement CD's (which is now their job instead of making music) is somehow going to produce "better" music for you?

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

I've actually seen people go thru an art gallery during a showing taking pictures of the paintings (or even photo art) ,with a price tag on it, talking about how they were going to blow them up and hang them on their wall because they liked the painting/picture but didn't want to pay $100 for it. They really didn't understand they are stealing from the artist and the gallery and everyone who they have to pay to provide that work hanging there with a price tag on it. The people who make the paint, canvas, frame, own the bulding, taxes, insurance, electric company, HVAC, the guy who mowes the lawn out front, the sales lady, etc. What about the aritst and his rent, food, medical and electric bills? Fawk 'em. I can just take a picture of it, print it on my computer and hang it on my wall for less than $2.

It's the same issue as stealing music, movies, art, patents, books, medicines, etc. You're stealing intellectual property and all the resources/investment it took to produce that end product. Not just the individual physical copy.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Look, I'm not going to sit here and argue about how/why musicians make money, I'll be the first to admit that you obviously know more about it than I do. But to call me a thief is just stupid. If I don't like an album and I'm not going to listen to it, why would I want to pay $15 to find that out? I'm not hurting the band by downloading it and listening to it. Because if I like the cd, I'm going to go buy it. If I don't like the cd, I sure as hell don't want to contribute to the band because that would just be encouraging them to make more music I don't like. Call me whatever you want, but I support the music industry more than most.

I go to many concerts every year, I know it's possible to just download a live show but that will never replace the feeling of actually being there for me. I know I could download the albums for all the bands I like, but I like having the original cd, I like the quality it brings, and I like that little bit of satisfaction I get by knowing I'm supporting a good band.

Bottom line is, I refuse to support crappy bands, so if that means I have to download a band's cd to see if I like it before I buy it, so be it. You can call this stealing if you want, but this has also lead me to get into bands I never thought I would. If suddenly for some reason I couldn't download music anymore, then theres no way I would buy as many cds as I do, because I'm not going to just gamble if I'm going to like the band or not.

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

Then at least admit, you're a theif. You can listen to lots of music at the store, on the radio or on TV before you buy, but only what the license holder has authorized you to hear. That's called marketing and promotion. By listening to the whole album first, you have already stolen the intellectual property. Now your just buying a copy. I see why you think the copy is overpriced. Because you don't understand it is the intellectual property that is valuable and expensive to produce, not the physical copy. You already stole the intellectual property, so the mechanical copy should be cheap, right?

Do you decide if your going to pay for a movie at a cinema after you've seen it? "I didn't really like the movie, it was boring. I'm not going to pay. I refuse to support crappy movies, even after I watch them. But I taped the whole thing on my video camera so I'll show it to all my freinds and see if any of them want to pay for it."

Do you run out of a resturant without paying if the meal was boring?

Yet you somehow think this will produce better music, movies and food? You really believe you're not a thief?

 

[westman995 10+ year member]

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Then at least admit, you're a theif. You can listen to lots of music at the store, on the radio or on TV before you buy, but only what the license holder has authorized you to hear. That's called marketing and promotion. By listening to the whole album first, you have already stolen the intellectual property. Now your just buying a copy. I see why you think the copy is overpriced. Because you don't understand it is the intellectual property that is valuable and expensive to produce, not the physical copy. You already stole the intellectual property, so the mechanical copy should be cheap, right?
Do you decide if your going to pay for a movie at a cinema after you've seen it? "I didn't really like the movie, it was boring. I'm not going to pay. I refuse to support crappy movies, even after I watch them. But I taped the whole thing on my video camera so I'll show it to all my freinds and see if any of them want to pay for it."

Do you run out of a resturant without paying if the meal was boring?

Yet you somehow think this will produce better music, movies and food? You really believe you're not a thief?

Im a thief and I rip music because Im a cheap ***.

 

[westman995 10+ year member]

Im a thief and I rip music because Im a cheap ***.

Me too.

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

Im a thief and I rip music because Im a cheap ***.

Me too.

Then you are the reason that music sucks and is getting worse. Miley Circus and Lady GaGa thank you.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Then you are the reason that music sucks and is getting worse. Miley Circus and Lady GaGa thank you.

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[westman995 10+ year member]

Then you are the reason that music sucks and is getting worse. Miley Circus and Lady GaGa thank you.

Your welcome.

 

[osiris999 10+ year member]

get one of these http://www.sonicviewusa.com/product.html and be done with it.

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

No, they don't. That's actually the area I work in. Live music venues have also melted down and closed down. Fewer bands can play live and fewer people pay to see live music than ever. Thanks to pirating, rising costs for the venue and fewer people going out for entertainment when they can stay home play X-box, order a pizza and download their music/movies.So it's okay for them to "get rich" off performance and merch, but not for the music they sell? Live performance is completly seperate business from recorded music. You're saying the only way a "musician" can make a living is as a "performer" living on the road out of a suitcase? A home life is not allowed? So Bethoven and Gershwin are deuchebags because they didn't tour? How is that an incentive to make better music for you? Assholes then pirate video our live shows and post them on youtube, so others don't have to pay for the show.I've never seen a band sell a CD for $5. Do you think recording studios and record labels are getting "rich" off this? Then why are they closing? It's a business and the investment has to be paid back. You pay more for a quick lunch than a $15 CD you cheap bastard. How much is a tank of gas? $45. Not long ago is was less than $20. Yet, a CD is still $12-$15. That $15 has to pay for the store front you bought it from, the marketing and distrubution to get it to you, duplication house, publication and licensing, recording studio, producer, engineer, band gear and finally the band. Do have any idea how much a concert piano costs? $130,000!!! A mixing console? Studio monitors? Not every musician wants to work in their basement on shitty gear saving up thier pennies to buy another batch of t-shirts to sell. Yo-Yo Ma does not. Sting does not. Aretha Franknlin does not. The Clash, Rolling Stones and the Beatles did not.

You are arguing for pirating and against the "rich" evil music business that provides you with the very product you steal. Pirating a "demo" is theft. I have bought lots of albums that after I got them home I didn't care for them that much. Some of them later became some of my favorite albums after a while. I paid for the "demo" as you call it. You're a thief.

It's amazing how people can argue for pirating and not realize their theft hurts the musicians they are stealling from. You actually believe that condeming all "musicians" to living out of a van, selling T-shirts and basement CD's (which is now their job instead of making music) is somehow going to produce "better" music for you?

EXACTLY!! thank god the entire USA isn't stupid. there are a few left who have common sense.

I've been saying a long time, People wanna point fingers about the economy, when in reality it is the people and their insatiable greed that makes capitalism fail. And it's to the point these days that people can't even understand that what they are doing is wrong. These people really just honestly can't fathom why downloading a song (YES EVEN 1 SONG) on lime-wire is theft.

You can listen to music on the radio, myspace, sites that specifically market music. When you stop listening to music on the radio for example, because you've downloaded all your favorite songs and burned them to CD, Radio profits drop, jobs get lost, advertisements get lost, more jobs get lost.

 

[osiris999 10+ year member]

Anytime you listen to a CD even if you buy it your not listening to the radio. So what your saying is all cds and itunes etc. Are bad because radio are losing listeners. Maybe people want to hear the music they want and not one good song every 15min followed by advertisements for things they don't want.