Re: KNOCK KNOCK Anyone home?

On 24/11/06 22:49, "kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" wrote:
> 
> I was watching something on TV
> the other day, and it was on cable- here we have cable-boxes with DVR.
> Well, I wanted my friend to see it, but since I hadn't videotaped it,
> and I can't physically give her something that's been Ti-Voed, I
> thought it would be neat to have a device like a USB cord to attach to
> the DVR and into the computer and just send it to her via email- like
> an MP3 or WAV. Does anything like this exist?

If your DVR is a real TiVo then I believe it is possible to extract
video files from it, but it does require installing software onto
the DVR, and maybe other warranty-cancelling actions.

An alternative is to attach the output of the DVR to your PC using
something like this:
  http://www.hauppage.com/pages/products/data_hvr950.html

It does require a PC with some serious grunt, though.  Oh yes, and
with video files coming in at about 1.5GB/hour, your friend's going
to need a bomb-proof email inbox.

I use one of these: http://www.elgato.com/
 but that's Mac-only.

Stuart