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Moving films over from hardrive TV recorder to DVD
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Hey!
I might have a bit of a dull question, but I'll try though. We have a hardware TV recorder and we have recorded a rather lengthy documentary (a series) which we would like to keep. But the hardware recorder is full and there is no DVD burner. The quality of our old VHS recorder is not so great. So any options or suggestions? To be honest, I wouldn't like spending any money, but I dunno... I thought, if I spend a bit, there might be two options: A DVD recorder (or can you borrow one?) or something like EyeTV and connecting that, then recording on the Mac, then burning - and I still wonder about the quality.
Any ideas? Any advice...? Helpless...
Pete
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If there is a Firewire port on the recorder - there very often is - you can pull the video in that way with the right software. I don't have any specific examples, but I know that that feature existed in some video software about a decade ago.
You can also disassemble the drive from the recorder, install it in any computer with the right port (it's usually 2.5" SATA drives) and see if you can mount the drive that way and copy directly. It is frequently an e2fs partition, which you can read on the Mac with e.g. FUSE. Alternatively, just clone the partition onto a bigger drive, grow the partition and then install that in the recorder.
If you really have to re-record, then yes, EyeTV is an option, but the quality is likely to be so-so.
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Can't you just copy the recordings to you computer over the network?
My TiVo has supported that for a long time.
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Can't you torrent another copy of it?
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Originally Posted by mduell 
Can't you just copy the recordings to you computer over the network?
My TiVo has supported that for a long time.
What's the DRM like when you go that route?
Non-TiVo DVRs often don't have that kind of functionality.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
What's the DRM like when you go that route?
Non-TiVo DVRs often don't have that kind of functionality.
Pretty thin, tivodecode takes care of it.
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Also, it's kind of funny that I'm working on getting stuff OFF DVD.
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