Author Topic: AGOT: 7/4/12 $25K Pyramid (Read 12107 times)

snowpeck · « **on:** July 04, 2012, 04:29:33 AM »

I feel like Chuck Donegan now... did anyone manage to record this morning's (3AM eastern time) $25K Pyramid? I forgot to set my DVR and don't know if it will even be on the Sunday lineup long enough to circulate back to that one.

PYLdude · « **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2012, 04:39:28 AM »

Gotta ask quickly- is there a way to trade recordings on DVRs, as in can you do it directly from one DVR to another provided both are hooked up to some form of internet connection? (Sorry, Greg, can't help ya big man.)

snowpeck · « **Reply #2 on:** July 04, 2012, 04:46:42 AM »

Not with ones provided by cable companies (mine is a Comcast box.) Tivo perhaps though. I've been burning the current batch of episodes to DVD lately. Been good about remembering to record until today. (Series recording is useless because it catches all the repeats.)

Pyramid80 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2012, 10:27:47 AM »

Greg, I have a copy if you still need it.

snowpeck · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2012, 10:42:17 AM »

Sent you an email through the forum.

clemon79 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2012, 12:53:49 PM »

Quote from: PYLdude on July 04, 2012, 04:39:28 AM

Gotta ask quickly- is there a way to trade recordings on DVRs, as in can you do it directly from one DVR to another provided both are hooked up to some form of internet connection? (Sorry, Greg, can't help ya big man.)

Oh my LORD would the content providers crap themselves if that ever became possible. Remember that this is an industry that would just as soon you didn't even have the DVR in the first place.

(And by that I mean "if a DVR maker ever tried to implement it." It's absolutely *technically* possible.)

Tim L · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2012, 01:17:11 PM »

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP4E3YYnz24[/media][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbqhLS0sJdw&feature=relmfu[/media]

A while back I watched some 1978 WEWS Morning Exchange Interviews on YouTube with the "Special Counsel to the Recording Industry on Piracy"..Rather a humorless gentleman actually..with Fred Griffith and Joel Rose..Check out the early Video Recorder..They are recording themselves on the Morning Exchange as the interview is going on..

Pyramid80 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2012, 02:22:00 PM »

Quote from: snowpeck on July 04, 2012, 10:42:17 AM

Sent you an email through the forum.

Responded via e-mail, let me know if you didn't receive.

geno57 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 04, 2012, 03:41:03 PM »

I have an output on my DVR which allows me to copy to VCR. I know it works, because I've done it. (16x9 becomes cut 4x3.) But other than that, I have no idea what I'd need to send the output to my computer. Software? Hardware?

clemon79 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 04, 2012, 04:00:11 PM »

Quote from: geno57 on July 04, 2012, 03:41:03 PM

I have an output on my DVR which allows me to copy to VCR. I know it works, because I've done it. (16x9 becomes cut 4x3.) But other than that, I have no idea what I'd need to send the output to my computer. Software? Hardware?

Probably depends on your DVR. For Tivo, if it's on your network your computer can connect to it to download shows, and stripping the encryption from it is a pretty simple matter. I don't know how hard it is with the Comcast and et. and al. DVRs, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was a way to do it, provided there's a way for a computer network to connect to it.

EDIT: A little Googling says it's doable via FireWire with Comcast anyhow, but holy hell is it a pain.

snowpeck · « **Reply #10 on:** July 04, 2012, 06:06:43 PM »

Nevermind... turns out Nick set the DVR and didn't tell me about it. False alarm I guess.

MikeK · « **Reply #11 on:** July 04, 2012, 06:40:14 PM »

Glad to hear Nick got it for ya. He's a good guy. Hold onto him. ;-) (HI NICK!)

You can't do "season pass"-style recordings with a Comcast DVR? And I thought Time-Warner's DVR was a piece of junk.

snowpeck · « **Reply #12 on:** July 04, 2012, 07:45:51 PM »

Comcast calls it a "series recording" and I could do that, but it would catch all the repeats as well as the Friday night marathons, which I'm not interested in for several reasons. The HD version of GSN stretches those episodes out to fill the 16:9 aspect ratio, and the SD version has local Comcast ads that never fail to cut off about a minute of the second round.

I guess it might be easier to remember to delete the recordings I don't want every couple days than to remember to set a manual recording every day.

And also, I am using the firewire method to record the shows to my computer, and then to a DVD. It's actually rather easy once you get the right drivers installed. Just hook the box up to the PC, run an application called "CapDVHS," roll the program, and hit record.

Tim L · « **Reply #13 on:** July 04, 2012, 07:45:54 PM »

Quote from: MikeK on July 04, 2012, 06:40:14 PM

Glad to hear Nick got it for ya. He's a good guy. Hold onto him. ;-) (HI NICK!)

You can't do "season pass"-style recordings with a Comcast DVR? And I thought Time-Warner's DVR was a piece of junk.

Time Warner DVR's still are a piece of junk..BTW, still liking U-Verse?

MikeK · « **Reply #14 on:** July 04, 2012, 08:04:19 PM »

Quote from: Tim L on July 04, 2012, 07:45:54 PM

Time Warner DVR's still are a piece of junk..BTW, still liking U-Verse?

Very much so! Even though I lost a few channels by leaving Time-Warner (digital sub-channels like Antenna TV and MeTV), I gained more, like NFL Network and Boomerang, at a much lower price. I like that the U-Verse DVR pads all recordings by a minute, for those networks that start early or are all over the map when it comes to start times. (I'm looking square at you, Viacom channels.) I also like that I can record a show from the DVR here in the den, but watch it down here or in the living room or bedroom. Doubling my DSL speeds to 12 Mbps down/1.5 Mbps up is also very nice.