Shaw PVR

[steve-o]

anyone have any experience getting recordings off their PVR onto a computer so you can burn the shows to disc.

I need to transfer the whole season of supercross soon as my PVR is at 91% capacity.

[KanadianIceMan]

I think the easiest route would be to find the shows/episodes online, burn those & get a DIVX codec player.

I know costco has some PVR's with DVD burners on them. However transfering your shows may be hard to that new unit to burn.

Is there an option to add a USB hdd to your PVR? I reccomend going to memoryexpress in calgary and grabbing a 500GB-1TB hdd for 150$

[cedric]

I think generally they (Shaw, etc.) don't want you to be able to do that, so it's not going to be straight forward. It is just a hard drive though, so I'm sure there are hacks being done out there.

[Ricktc]

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If you need to download the episodes, they are all there, plus many other seasons and other movies as well. I use Limewire to download, works great.

-Rick

[dirtyboy]

I noticed the latest one is Salt Lake City. I was expecting Las Vegas. What's the scoop? Is Vegas still to come?

[steve-o]

I noticed the latest one is Salt Lake City. I was expecting Las Vegas. What's the scoop? Is Vegas still to come?

Season finale this Saturday at 8PM, live tv. This is the Vegas round! Should be good!! DB, I though tyou wanted to host a kegger for this one?? Go Bubba!!

[absurveyor]

The PS3 will play avi and Divx files. You can put 2 hours of non copyright video on a regular cd in just a few minutes. Use bittorrent for downloading. A word of warning Telus may send you a piracy warning notice if your bandwith usage is high, or if you are downloading a copyright program. Shaw does not care because Canadian laws do not make file sharing illegal.
I would expect that the PVR has a regular hard drive. Pop it out and take it to memory express. They will set you up with an external hard drive adapter (under $30) that you can use to copy the files to your PC for burning. Then spend under $80 and pick up a larger internal hard drive for the PVR ($59 for a 640 GB).

[markvfr]

I would expect that the PVR has a regular hard drive. Pop it out and take it to memory express. They will set you up with an external hard drive adapter (under $30) that you can use to copy the files to your PC for burning. Then spend under $80 and pick up a larger internal hard drive for the PVR ($59 for a 640 GB).

You sure about that? I thought Shaw and Bell encrypt their recordings in the PVR so they could not be copied.

Edit: A quick search on google shows the Bell PVR footage can be ripped but not Shaw.

[cedric]

If you don't want to pony up for a PS3, you can get a DVD player from SuperStore that will play DivX and Mpeg files and the like. Best $40 I've spent in a long time.

[cladoo]

I believe that I can copy a program off my Bell PVR if I watch it at the same time.