Re: KNOCK KNOCK Anyone home?

kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>
> Which reminds me- I have a request.  I need one you you University
> trained brainy-types to invent something.  You could make billions- be
> the next (dare I say it)  Bill Gates.   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?

Technologically speaking it's a doddle. However the manufacturers of
such things don't allow it very often due to copyright issues. So
you'll find that if you rip your hard drive out of your <insert generic
PVR> and plug it into your pc, it'll read bobbins. Deliberately. The
same reason getting stuff OFF an iPod is an exercise in futility that a
couple of people have worked hacks for.... and only works for certain
file formats that don't have DMR stuff attached....

80Gig gives you 14 hours. So a film of 2 hours would be 12 gig which is
f huge.

If you had a PC based PVR then you'd have no encode/decode issues, just
transferring. You'd be best burning it to a DVD then.... and by that
time you might as well have got it from Blockbusters....

G - if it's on cable, it'll be repeated within 3 months girl