Stand Alone DVR?

[olds]

Can an aftermarket DVR be added to Comcast/Xfinity and work?

 

[allisolm]

TiVos work fine with Comcast.

 

[olds]

Forgot about Tivo.
That would work but anything cheaper? It's for a business to use on news stations in or Emergency Operations Center. Looking for no subscription fee.

 

[Drako]

Have you looked into a Tablo?

 

[olds]

Have you looked into a Tablo?

Bad reviews on Amazon.

 

[Elixer]

Sure, SiliconDust has products that work with CableCards, and when I had cable, worked great. I loved my HomeRun Prime.

3 tuners, so it could record 3 shows at once, and use local storage, no DRM either.
The only issue is, if the channel itself has DRM, then you need to use a DRM aware recording program, and that was only Windows Media Center on win 7. (You can use a VM with that OS if that is the case.)

*edit, oh, you said stand-alone. Hmm... there was some, but I don't recall the names.

 

[BD231]

This is gunna get ugly

 

[Skunk-Works]

Can an aftermarket DVR be added to Comcast/Xfinity and work?

Sure, why not? All you're doing is recording the video out. Thing is, it shouldn't cost anyone to record a show. That's ludacris. I remember back in '08 a stand alone, non-subscription DVR was going for a lot of money on ebay, but I can't remember its name now. I'd like to have one myself. I don't own a DVR. There's no way in hell I'm paying Comcast for that feature. Bad enough I pay over $100 for X1 and have shit to pick from in the guide.

 

[Ken g6]

I don't suppose getting just antenna stations would work? Homeworx and others make DVR tuners that work with an external hard drive.

 

[bbhaag]

Keep your eye out for a good price on the Tivo Roamio OTA then head over to Ebay and buy one of these and then mod the Roamio as done in this thread on the Tivo forums.

I believe it's the cheapest way to get dvr functionality using cable without paying a monthly/yearly subscription fee to Tivo.

 

[who?]

You mean ludicrous.

 

[BoomerD]

Aren't you still working for Gov. Moonbeam? Is money so tight that you can't afford to pay for the service?

 

[olds]

Aren't you still working for Gov. Moonbeam? Is money so tight that you can't afford to pay for the service?

Contrary to what the papers and the ignorant say, we don't operate that way as a normal course of business.

 

[Ichinisan]

Sure, why not? All you're doing is recording the video out. Thing is, it shouldn't cost anyone to record a show. That's ludacris. I remember back in '08 a stand alone, non-subscription DVR was going for a lot of money on ebay, but I can't remember its name now. I'd like to have one myself. I don't own a DVR. There's no way in hell I'm paying Comcast for that feature. Bad enough I pay over $100 for X1 and have shit to pick from in the guide.

LOL

 

[Mike64]

That's ludacris.

No, no, no. That's not ludacris, this is ludacris.