bobvick- Thanks for the reply. Glad to have a workable answer, even if its not the answer I desire.

I guess this is probably a stupid question.. but maybe.. just maybe it's not. What about my team's 12 games a season. If I DVR those, can i burn them to a DVD RW I hook up via s-video out? Or let me say this.. using any method-- what's the best way to get a high def version of 1 game at a time...

where did you learn that?

bobvick- I knew that breaking the lease/paying tons of money was the bigger problem with that first idea. The idea I'm currently going with is the one I posted after that (that starts out with PS Harshness). All that (in theory, of course) would require is working knowledge of linux (and how to...

PS Harshness- Dont know how much you know about linux, but the other thing I was thinking about doing (since there's two external USB's) is hooking up a live flash drive, running some distro off there, plugging in a external usb drive, copy, then retstart. Would seem to work in theory, right?

harshness- That's actually great to know. Turns out, I'm a 5 year linux user- so can I just take out the drive after DVR'ing something, copy to another external drive, and throw it back in the box? That seems simple? Anyone play with this to determine if VLC (or another player) can play the...

bobvick- any idea why the restrictions? What good does it do DirecTV to provide service like that?

I assume then, there's no way to burn content to a DVD, either? So is it illegal to do this, or does Dish just have some problem with people doing this? Why no workaround?

so I can get my DVR to read a share on an network drive and play that, but have no way to share that content anywhere else. BTW, I have no intention of getting it to another DVR. I want it on my computer's external drive.

Hey All- New to the forum, just signed up with DirecTV/Centurylink because of how bad Comcast sucks at everything they do/don't do. Anyways, I was told I'd get this new HR34 and wondered a few things. 1) I sense this is the case, but technically, if I record a movie onto the DVR, is it illegal...