But these recordings cannot be accessed by a computer connected to the PVR via USB, and needless to say, PVRs don’t come with DVD recorders. The PVR adds a hard drive to optionally record shows for later playback. The set-top boxes by themselves are only devices that receive an encrypted video signal through broadband cable, decrypt them and pump them out to the television monitor. As far as I know, there are digital set-top boxes sold without recorders but digital video recorders sold by themselves are a specialty accessory.
It is digital set-top box combined with a digital video recorder. Let’s start by looking into the question of what is a PVR. This is the same business model as for mobile phones.īut what if you really wanted to save a copy of a show off the PVR to play back on a computer or another device? This post is about how I went about doing it. You can buy your PVR from your cable company, or from your local electronic big box store but still locked to particular cable companies. So the cable encrypted their signals and Personal Video Recorder (PVR) manufacturers only sold units that combined signal decoders with recorders and these units would be locked to particular cable operators. Why this is so is another story! In short the television stations, but mostly the cable companies were worried that viewers would make perfect copies of their shows and collect them, or skip the commercials when playing them back. My collection of recorded television shows stopped growing when our digital television replaced the old analog one. Yet, nothing has really replaced the VHS tapes.
#TRANSFER RECORDINGS FROM ROGERS PVR TO USB TV#
Now, televisions are digital and at least for consumers who get their tv by cable (or from satellite), PVRs have replaced VCRs.
People would record their favorite shows on VHS (or Beta) tapes to watch later and reuse, or in many cases for pack rats to keep in their collections. When television was in its middle years and receivers were analog, videocassette recorders (VCRs) were a most common accessory. I say that the word ‘critically’ is redundant because non-critical thinking is not thinking. Thinking critically means applying the rules of logic and evidence to the thought process. I put this word in brackets, because frankly it is redundant. Or maybe, going by gut instincts, and feelings is all that matters. Maybe old folk tales and ancient books transcribed from older oral traditions capture all what one needs to ‘live’. So its easier (they think) to follow the crowd. Maybe such people don’t have the inclination, maybe they’ve been browbeaten in the past and mocked when they expressed themselves. What could be clearer ? I supposed for some, this is very hard. Yes, that’s a verb that exhorts others to, well, think. Yes folks, calling on people to think critically for themselves was construed to be an offensive recommendation! Let’s parse this very short statement: It starts with THINK. But then one person took it as an offense. A friend called it my motto and that’s fine by me. It is after all my primary tag line, and the default signature on my email. This is an apt subject for my first blog post.