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Posted: June 21, 2006 3:38 pm
by land_shark3
sy wrote:Hubby has a dedicated computer hooked up to the dvr unit, runs it through and burns them off. It's not firewire, though. He bought a special video card for it.
I'm not entirely sure what program he uses, though. I'm forbidden to play with it, it's 'his baby'.
A friend of mine did that. He didn't want to pay for DVR service or for a DVR. He got a video card for an old computer and now has a 120Gb home made DVR.
Posted: June 21, 2006 4:02 pm
by RinglingRingling
sy wrote:RinglingRingling wrote:
is the computer case covered in Transformer decals?
Not that computer. That one is the red headed stepchild of all of our computers. It gets beaten regularly because the fan on the video card keeps making noise and he won't replace it.
But his main computer does have an autobot logo on it 
mine did that for a while too. Then I would touch the box to drain out any static charge, and tap the fan on the card. It stopped. On the safe side, I have a fan card running next to the graphics card tho
Posted: June 21, 2006 4:04 pm
by RinglingRingling
land_shark3 wrote:sy wrote:Hubby has a dedicated computer hooked up to the dvr unit, runs it through and burns them off. It's not firewire, though. He bought a special video card for it.
I'm not entirely sure what program he uses, though. I'm forbidden to play with it, it's 'his baby'.
A friend of mine did that. He didn't want to pay for DVR service or for a DVR. He got a video card for an old computer and now has a 120Gb home made DVR.
hmmmm... have been thinking about upgrading computers, and the old one has a hard drive I really don't need... hmmm...
Posted: June 21, 2006 5:09 pm
by sy
RinglingRingling wrote:
hmmmm... have been thinking about upgrading computers, and the old one has a hard drive I really don't need... hmmm...
It's really worth it. He was all excited when he set it up, and I thought 'what in the world will we actually burn off'. Surprisingly, it's come in really handy. I have shelves full of cooking shows I wouldn't normally be able to buy or get, and he burns off all kinds of stuff to watch while we're on road trips, plane trips, while I was in the hospital, at work, etc.
Posted: June 21, 2006 5:20 pm
by RinglingRingling
sy wrote:RinglingRingling wrote:
hmmmm... have been thinking about upgrading computers, and the old one has a hard drive I really don't need... hmmm...
It's really worth it. He was all excited when he set it up, and I thought 'what in the world will we actually burn off'. Surprisingly, it's come in really handy. I have shelves full of cooking shows I wouldn't normally be able to buy or get, and he burns off all kinds of stuff to watch while we're on road trips, plane trips, while I was in the hospital, at work, etc.
of course, now I need to get a DVD burner too..
Posted: June 21, 2006 5:30 pm
by sy
RinglingRingling wrote:sy wrote:RinglingRingling wrote:
hmmmm... have been thinking about upgrading computers, and the old one has a hard drive I really don't need... hmmm...
It's really worth it. He was all excited when he set it up, and I thought 'what in the world will we actually burn off'. Surprisingly, it's come in really handy. I have shelves full of cooking shows I wouldn't normally be able to buy or get, and he burns off all kinds of stuff to watch while we're on road trips, plane trips, while I was in the hospital, at work, etc.
of course, now I need to get a DVD burner too..
You can get them on sale quite cheap anymore. I got one for my business comp for 39.99 last black friday. I think the dual layer ones aren't much more than that anymore.
Posted: June 21, 2006 5:44 pm
by RinglingRingling
sy wrote:RinglingRingling wrote:sy wrote:RinglingRingling wrote:
hmmmm... have been thinking about upgrading computers, and the old one has a hard drive I really don't need... hmmm...
It's really worth it. He was all excited when he set it up, and I thought 'what in the world will we actually burn off'. Surprisingly, it's come in really handy. I have shelves full of cooking shows I wouldn't normally be able to buy or get, and he burns off all kinds of stuff to watch while we're on road trips, plane trips, while I was in the hospital, at work, etc.
of course, now I need to get a DVD burner too..
You can get them on sale quite cheap anymore. I got one for my business comp for 39.99 last black friday. I think the dual layer ones aren't much more than that anymore.
yep... and then comes the transfer of all the stuff over from CD to DVD..
Posted: June 21, 2006 6:25 pm
by redparrot26
I used to get that package from DirecTV, and once from DishNetwork too. I'll tell ya, you end up watching pay-per-view movies all the time. Which eventually stops you from watching HBO and the like, because you've seen all the movies before they get there.
Of course you can't watch The Sopranos or any other premium channel program on pay-per-view, so it's nice to still have HBO.
When I had that deal from DirecTV or Dish it wasn't $7500 a year though.
You already know I'm a pirate, right? just by being here? Those were the days.
Posted: June 21, 2006 9:21 pm
by ragtopW
sy wrote:I wonder if it includes all the adult channels too.
Yep... And... I hate to tell you it will be 10,000$ after the promo is over..
Posted: June 21, 2006 9:21 pm
by ragtopW
RinglingRingling wrote:sy wrote:I wonder if it includes all the adult channels too.
is there a way to get the video off the digital recorders, and burned to DVD...
yep..
