Burn saved TiVO moves to a computer DVD?

[Staz]

I have a TiVO system and have several movies saved on it. I also have a DVD burner on my computer, close by. TiVO gives me the ability to record my saved movies to my VCR, but if I wanted to saved them to my computer's DVD as a playable DVD movie, what hardware/software is needed and how would you do that?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

How? Illegally, of course.

 

[tiap]

Google for Tivo forums and you will find lots of discussions/directions. Some machines are networkable and others not.

They are saved in .tivo files and have to be re encoded to play on a pc. Not legal. WMP 9 or 10 can play them with a filter.

Easiest is to get a Tivo dvd recorder and play them on any dvd player.

 

[Staz]

How is it legal to copy the saved movies to my VCR, an option built right into TiVO, but it is illegal to copy them to a DVD???

 

[tiap]

Originally posted by: Staz
How is it legal to copy the saved movies to my VCR, an option built right into TiVO, but it is illegal to copy them to a DVD???

They tried to copy protect vcr's too, but it just didn't work as well. Now with the popularity of computers, they are much more worried about it. I believe the federal law states that it is not illegal to copy a movie, but it is illegal to circumvent the copyprotection to do so. I don't know if they have ever tried an individual for this who has just made backup copies for their own use.

 

[ND40oz]

Buy a replayTV, it encodes as mpeg2 and has built in ethernet, use dvarchive to pull the mpg's onto your pc and burn away, you can even edit the files...sorry shameless plug for the underdog.