[DARARepeater] In search of some ideas to help with my project

[Tigerwolf]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, Gary Mullins wrote:

> I have something for you to ponder while you are in the "stay at home" 
> mode. I am working on trying to "cut the cord" with DirecTV and I have 
> an issue I need help with. One of my TV's has a DVR receiver from Direct 
> with quite a few movies and other shows that I would like to keep. So I 
> would like to figure out a way to get those off the DVR onto either DVD 
> media or some other storage media (USB sticks or hard drive) in some 
> format that I can later play on my TV. The shows are recorded in HD 
> (1080) resolution. The HD output from the DVR is a HDMI connection. Does 
> anyone on here have any experience with this, or have a magic box, or 
> other solution that could help me. Thank you, Gary MullinsK8UW

A quickie answer:  they make recorders that take HDMI in and record the 
signal to memory stick / HD card.

A sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeEghfUro1w

There's probably cheaper solutions.

The main thing with HDMI is that it can require whatever it's connected to 
to abide by 'security' provisions that 'protect' from copying...though I'm 
sure there's some Chinese thing that can be had to get around that.

It's 2:30am and I was heading to bed, but will nose around some more 
tomorrow.

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=^_^=  Tigerwolf