Direct cust with a question:

[bderouen]

Hi all!
I'm a very, VERY satisified Dish customer but I'm actually asking this for a friend who is a Direct customer. I think I know the answer, but I'll try asking anyway.

My friend has DirecTV - their DVR and has seen my Dish setup. He wants to switch when he moves to his new house in about a month or so, but his wife is giving him all kinds of grief about it. Her problem is she's recorded a bunch of movies on their Standard Def DVR and she doesn't want to switch, cuz "Then I'll loose all my movies "

Anyway...the model DVR he has from Direct is an R-15, I think. Is there anyone that has figured out how to copy movies from their DirecTV box if they're moving to Dish?

Any help would be appreciated!

Bruce

 

[gary s]

It seems to me it would be better to ask in a Directv forum how to copy movies to something to save them, possibly vcr or maybe even dvd.

I'm pretty sure you can't transfer a recording from a Directv box to a Dishnetwork box if that's what you're asking.

 

[bderouen]

Good point. I'll post my question there too. I was wondering if there was a way to export it to anything really, digital, DVD, VCR, whatever. I asked here thinking there may have been others in that same boat, but you're right, exporting to anything else...ANYTHING else is a good option.

Thanks!

 

[Claude Greiner]

If you own the DVR, can't you just keep it hooked up without a satellite signal and it will let you replay the content on the hard drive?

I know you can do that with Dish network DVR's

 

[jegrant]

OTOH, DVD recorders are pretty cheap these days. Yes, there is some loss due to re-encoding, but if you use a high quality (high bitrate) recording mode, you would be able to make permanent copies of those recorded movies.

 

[captpjd]

OTOH, DVD recorders are pretty cheap these days. Yes, there is some loss due to re-encoding, but if you use a high quality (high bitrate) recording mode, you would be able to make permanent copies of those recorded movies.

Thats what I was going to say--get a VCR/DVD recorder, then you can hook up the sat receiver to the DVD recorder and copy the wifes movies to DVD. 1 movie for best quality on 2hr setting DVD

 

[bderouen]

If you own the DVR, can't you just keep it hooked up without a satellite signal and it will let you replay the content on the hard drive?

I know you can do that with Dish network DVR's

hmmm. I was wondering the same thing, Claude. I didn't know you could do that on Dish's DVRs though. Of course, I think he may have to turn that equipment back in if/when he disconnects, since Direct is like Dish now...considers this leased equipment. When I dumped Direct, I was able to keep my machines (for all the good it did me) but mine was not DVRs.

Thats what I was going to say--get a VCR/DVD recorder, then you can hook up the sat receiver to the DVD recorder and copy the wifes movies to DVD. 1 movie for best quality on 2hr setting DVD

That sounds like a good idea. I wonder...if he doesn't want to fork over the money to buy one, I wonder if those furniture/electronics places rent them. Believe me, his wife probably would not let him buy one , but maybe if I rent one for them as a gift or something...then she can't gripe at him for spending money!

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I appreciate it!!

Bruce