SargeW
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True. I just bought a 128 Gig San Disk SD card amazingly cheap. So it really is turning into more of a challenge than a necessity.
SargeW said:True. I just bought a 128 Gig San Disk SD card amazingly cheap. So it really is turning into more of a challenge than a necessity.
SargeW said:That was what I was curious about. I did a little experimentation with that stuff back when "tower" computers were the popular item. All the drives and plug in cards were simple to switch around. It sounds like now though that the drives may be coded to prevent just that now days.
Corky said:If the drive in question can be downloaded, couldn't the data then be uploaded to the new drive?
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BinaryBob said:I've had a similar problem when the cable company upgraded my DVR box and I had stuff on the old one I wanted to keep.
I have a recorder to SD card. You simply "play" the program to the card. Takes some time, but you get around the coding issue.
Assuming they use a standard Computer type hard drive (most do) to swap hard drives it is basically open it up and either release a couple latches or remove 4 scews. pull two plugs and swap.xrated said:Can you explain to me....even in some small way.....what this has to do with the original question?
SargeW said:I wanted to post the resolution to my original post. Here is my really low tech solution. We are in a park in the Ca Redwoods where satellite signal is impossible. So I pulled out the old DVR and plugged it in. I also pulled the HDMI plug from the back of the current DVR and plugged it in to the old one.
Turning it on, the old DVR started going through it's boot up process as expected. When it got to the end, and of course found no antenna signal, I just hit "menu" on the remote. (I did have to program an old remote because my newer one has different operations codes than the old one) The DVR gave me the option and I selected "list" on the DVR. All of my old shows popped up, and we were able to watch everything as normal on the living area TV.
I will be here a week, so I just left it plugged in and will use to play a variety of saved shows from the old DVR. In this case, KISS was the best option!