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Comcast DVR YIPPEEE!!! UODATE: IT HAS FIREWIRE OUTPUT ACTIVE But how....

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Epoman

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I will be getting the DVR on Friday but I want to know if anyone here has figured out a way to send it to your computer to archive?

I ask because I heard it has ports I/O but there disabled. Anyone know?

Also anyone here have the 2 TUNER version I want the 2 tuner version.


Update But how do I use it? If I have firmware 7.07 or high (I do!) it has the DVI and firewire outputs ACTIVE So whats the next step? how do I use it? I want to connect teh firewire output to my computer so I can archive the shows on CD instead of a VCR tape.
 
Its free. Just $9.95 a month. It has an 80gb HD. I have digital cable. You have to have a Digital package.
If you have an HD package its $4.95 I am in SoCal. I am wondering though if it has 2 tuners.
And If I can output.
 
Originally posted by: Modeps
dont be too excited, the comcast dvr is pretty featureless... it's just a tapeless vcr.
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I love uninformed posters!

This DVR has:

The usual Pause,
Rewind,
Instant replay,
Season pass (record every episode of a series)
2 Tuner (I just called there sending me the 6200 series)
Onscreen Menu,
21 day advance schedule,

What more do you want, Sounds good enough for me.
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Guess I'll stick with our ReplayTV 5040 although I wish it had two tuners.
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True, but this still wouldn't allow you to record two digital cable shows at once without two digital cable boxes. 🙁

One day... or just wait for on demand...

-geoff
 
Originally posted by: Epoman
Its free. Just $9.95 a month. It has an 80gb HD. I have digital cable. You have to have a Digital package.
If you have an HD package its $4.95 I am in SoCal. I am wondering though if it has 2 tuners.
And If I can output.
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Its free. Just $9.95 a month. ??? which one is it?
 
Originally posted by: Toasthead
Originally posted by: Epoman
Its free. Just $9.95 a month. It has an 80gb HD. I have digital cable. You have to have a Digital package.
If you have an HD package its $4.95 I am in SoCal. I am wondering though if it has 2 tuners.
And If I can output.
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Its free. Just $9.95 a month. ??? which one is it?
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I think he meant the DVR hardware is FREE but it costs $9.95/mo to lease it or for the service.
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: Toasthead
Originally posted by: Epoman
Its free. Just $9.95 a month. It has an 80gb HD. I have digital cable. You have to have a Digital package.
If you have an HD package its $4.95 I am in SoCal. I am wondering though if it has 2 tuners.
And If I can output.
Click to expand...



Its free. Just $9.95 a month. ??? which one is it?
Click to expand...

I think he meant the DVR hardware is FREE but it costs $9.95/mo to lease it or for the service.
Click to expand...

Correct is YOU!
 
my g/f and her roomy love their Comcast DVR. It is very nice and they use it all the time.

As soon as Sage 2 comes out with a trial ed though, I'm going to get a PVR 350 and build a HTPC 🙂 I really want the option to archive stuff if I choose to.
 
Originally posted by: nitsuj3580
my g/f and her roomy love their Comcast DVR. It is very nice and they use it all the time.

As soon as Sage 2 comes out with a trial ed though, I'm going to get a PVR 350 and build a HTPC 🙂 I really want the option to archive stuff if I choose to.
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Yeah I want to get around to building a HTPC it would be nice to archive the shows. But for now this will do! I'm still wondering if theres hacks out there to send it to my PC (DVRtoPC) I think I've read the outputs on the comcast DVR are disabled. :disgust:

Anyone have ideas or links?

Whats the legallity of saving the shows? Its the same as using a VCR right? I can save them but not sell them? I know its a grey area of the law. I mean you don't see the law going after VCR owners.

By they way what is Sage 2?
 
Originally posted by: Epoman
Originally posted by: Modeps
dont be too excited, the comcast dvr is pretty featureless... it's just a tapeless vcr.
Click to expand...

I love uninformed posters!

This DVR has:

The usual Pause,
Rewind,
Instant replay,
Season pass (record every episode of a series)
2 Tuner (I just called there sending me the 6200 series)
Onscreen Menu,
21 day advance schedule,

What more do you want, Sounds good enough for me.
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I love people that talk graces of something they dont have! Wow!

I have one... lets see here:
-Pause, Rewind... VCR features.
-"Instant Replay" rewind a few seconds and play again
-season pass isnt anything like Tivo's.. you can record only on one channel, and it records ALL episodes, including repeats.
2 Tuner is good
Onscreen menu, if you have digital cable, it's nothing new.
21 day advance schedule... wow! 21 days?! isnt that already on your digital cable too?
 
Originally posted by: DopeFiend
I'm assuming, get ready to capture the video and just press Play on the DVR deck?
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So your saying its possible it will record to both the DVR's HD and my external HD on my computer?

The DATA is saved as a Mpeg2 so thats good!

I guess I will have to try it.

But how will it know which HD on my computer it will be sent to? and DIR?
 
Go over to the AVSForums and do some reading. It's done rather easily using Macs and OSX. On the PC side, it gets complicated. It involves "acquiring" drivers from a japanese only video-editing suite and runing a DVHS emulator on the PC side, as well as having additional software to translate those files.

On linux, it's supposedly doable using the 2.6 kernel. As soon as I get my real PVR250, I'm going to reload linux and give it a try.

Oh... btw, I tried hooking up my LCD (computer) monitor to the DVI-out on the box, but it didn't work. 😛 I was hoping they wouldn't force the... what is it, HDCP (?), but they did. 🙁

Anyway, good luck and have fun!
 
on Time Warner Cable's DVR, there is now an option to output to VCR for recorded shows. This happened after their latest software upgrade..not sure if Comcast has this feature yet.
 
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