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__________________ 2004 Honda CBR 600RR current 2009 Suzuki DL650 V-Strom current 2009 Subaru WRX - current 2011 Nissan Pathfinder 4x4 current 1975 Datsun Fairlady Z RHD Project 2004.5 Nissan 350Z (gone, but not forgotten) 2008.5 Nissan Titan(Goodbye my monster truck)
__________________ 2004 Honda CBR 600RR current 2009 Suzuki DL650 V-Strom current 2009 Subaru WRX - current 2011 Nissan Pathfinder 4x4 current 1975 Datsun Fairlady Z RHD Project 2004.5 Nissan 350Z (gone, but not forgotten) 2008.5 Nissan Titan(Goodbye my monster truck)
HR-21. It does have a USB port as well. I just have never tried hooking anything to it except a phone line. Don't want to fry it or especially my $$$ laptop! That product you listed Mike, have u used it?
you should be able to piggy back the DVR's internal hard drive to your computer and copy the information over. You will probably need to down load some sort of program to play the shows though.
__________________ 2004 Honda CBR 600RR current 2009 Suzuki DL650 V-Strom current 2009 Subaru WRX - current 2011 Nissan Pathfinder 4x4 current 1975 Datsun Fairlady Z RHD Project 2004.5 Nissan 350Z (gone, but not forgotten) 2008.5 Nissan Titan(Goodbye my monster truck)
Most DVRs from satellite providers do not support that due to them using a different file system. In order to get the drive to mount you would have to format it completely, losing all your information.
Most DVRs from satellite providers do not support that due to them using a different file system. In order to get the drive to mount you would have to format it completely, losing all your information.
HR-21 has an ESATA port, you can connect an external drive and then connect that to your computer. Don't know if there's any way to convert / watch the files. Someone else pointed to dbstalk, that's where I would look too. Note that only certain drives / enclosure combinations work. Even if you can't or don't hack it I recommend going at least 1TB eSata.. So much more storage for shows and movies. DirecTV reserves so much space on the internal drive for code and other stuff that there isn't much left for shows.
I thought I remembered there being a DirecTV app for Windows MCE that would officially, legally stream content off an HR21, but I could be smoking crack. But if it exists its probably limited to watching on the PC, can't extract the video, burn DVD, etc.
I've got an old Tivo HR250 hacked and I used to extract video including HD movies off of HBO. I had it networked to a MythTV box where I stored the movies and could burn DVDs and transcode to iPhone format. I was even streaming movies from there to the iPhone over wifi. That was a 600Mhz Pentium III and would actually play 1080i without stuttering. If they haven't hacked the HR21s yet one of those may be your best bet. But you can't get the new HD channels so you'd be limited to SD and the original HD channels, and OTA HD.
The drive that plugs into the ESATA "combines" with the internal drive to form a type of RAID array. If you disconnect the drive after recording something, neither of them will retain any of the recorded info. The internal drive will format itself if you reboot without the ESATA drive plugged in.
If you want to go ESATA, I suggest the MX1 external drive enclosure from Antec along with a 1TB WD Drive. DBStalk has a ton of info on the best drives to use.
It's either / or. As soon as you boot with the eSata drive connected and on, it replaces the internal drive for storing programs and scheduling. If you reboot with the drive disconnected, it will revert to the stored programs and schedule on the internal drive. And the software always / only is on the internal drive.
That said there have been / were issues, especially earlier on that caused content to get lost. Some of those issues caused people to lose recorded programs even without an eSata drive.
And it will format the eSata drive the first time you plug it in to the unit. And the schedule / program content on it are tied to that unit.
I second the recommendation for the Antec MX-1 enclsure and WD drive. Check the dbstalk site for the particular drive model, its important. That seems to be the most common / tested configuration. I also recommend connecting both to a UPS. This keeps them in sync, either from rebooting unnecessarily, keeps gaps out of the programming when the power blips, and reduces the pain of the 15 minute startup time of the HR21.
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