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OT (a little) - DVR help

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16 months ago

I have several of the games from this year on my DVR. I just hooked my laptop up using a HDMI cable and I can not find the drive in the DVR on my computer. Looking under the Computer tab.
Is there a trick to this?? I should be able to see the drive in the DVR from my computer right??
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16 months ago

Unless I'm mistaken I think you are hooking up two outputs.
The DVR HDMI outputs to TV devices, while your computer outputs to TV or similiar devices.
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16 months ago

Your laptop and DVR must be networked together to play the DVR on your laptop. There is a program you need to download from DTV called DirecTV2PC.
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Thank you both
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16 months ago

something you can do is to add an external harddrive to your DVR. I did this about two years ago and have all the Bama games from the last 4 years on it. It's easier to connect that drive to a PC/Mac and I can access or copy them to computer for burning that way. I use dish network and they make you pay a one-time fee of about 40$ to use an external drive. worth it to me. hope this helps.
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