DVR Tomfoolery

[Moozik: Curve - Cuckoo]

I love my DVR. It has two tuners so I can watch live TV while recording another channel. Or record two channels while watching a third I'd already recorded. Which is all kinds of convenient. But it comes at a price. I now have more TV shows & movies to watch than I'm ever going to get around to watching in my lifetime. But at least there will be something for a rainy day or lazy Sunday afternoons.

I also love music videos. Being an MTV addict in the 80s will do that to you. So I usually record my fair share of stuff from VH1 Classic seeing as they're the only "music" channel that actually play videos these days. But this presents a problem because I like to keep certain videos permanently so I can watch them whenever I want. That takes up precious space on the DVR hard drive.

I read all kinds of warranty voiding solutions on how to get the content off of my DVR's hard drive and thought there has to be an easier way. So, I says to myself, why not just do it the old fashioned way? And I did. I hooked up an audio/video cable to the output of my DVR and attached the other end to the input jack of my LiteOn DVD recorder [0]. And lo, music DVDs are created. Oh yes, I'm the master of low-tech ;-) I'm sure there's some loss of video/audio quality in my approach but to be honest, I can't tell and hey, it works and sure beats removing the hard drive and ripping/transcoding the content on my computer.

[0] Which I also love because it's a play anything, any region, PAL/NTSC/Secam/Alien box of goodness.