FrankenTIVO!
Now Optimum Cable comes with a a DVR that holds a TON of hard drive space and at good quality and HD programs (I still get Monsters HD). Now until recently I had no way to transfer my Optimum holdings to TIVO and then transfer to my computer (well I did but it was really backwards). Now I all I do is simply set a manaul record time on TIVO and then switch over to cable and play a DVR'ed movie. Tivo will record it. When its over I switch to my auxilarly cable screen (just think of it as input 2) where I can control tivo (switching to aux will otherwise cut the DVR or live tv signial) and setup to do another one or just test it. Then I send it to my comp free the .tivo extension and covert and burn.
Now here is the best part instead of using a cable box I can use a VCR for the input and violia I can transfer tapes to tivo then to my comp and burn them to dvd-r. Cool thing is I can transfer HD materials (from Monsters) and it will downcovert it to SD so I can burn it.
Now Optimum Cable comes with a a DVR that holds a TON of hard drive space and at good quality and HD programs (I still get Monsters HD). Now until recently I had no way to transfer my Optimum holdings to TIVO and then transfer to my computer (well I did but it was really backwards). Now I all I do is simply set a manaul record time on TIVO and then switch over to cable and play a DVR'ed movie. Tivo will record it. When its over I switch to my auxilarly cable screen (just think of it as input 2) where I can control tivo (switching to aux will otherwise cut the DVR or live tv signial) and setup to do another one or just test it. Then I send it to my comp free the .tivo extension and covert and burn.
Now here is the best part instead of using a cable box I can use a VCR for the input and violia I can transfer tapes to tivo then to my comp and burn them to dvd-r. Cool thing is I can transfer HD materials (from Monsters) and it will downcovert it to SD so I can burn it.
