Get rid of dish, but keep the dvr

[elface]

Anyone had any experience in getting rid of dish and then buying or keeping the dvr. I've got a s/l of world cup games, movies, etc that I want to keep. Will dish go for an offer made by me to buy the dvr?

if not, is there someplace I can take it to burn the material from the dvr hard drive before returning it?

Thanks.

 

[14tokihorn]

From what I've read: When you get rid of your provider, and (someway) keep the DVR - it won't work for you. It has to do w/ the DVR & the providers' system being digitally linked.Just think of this as the DVR "phoning home". Perhaps this is why, when you buy a Tivo, you choose one based on a particular provider (I think?).

Someone can confirm/deny, but I assume satellite is the same.

I did something while subscribed to Uverse. I had a lot of content that I didn't want to part with, so, while waiting for the truck to replace the DVR, I removed the disk drive, and imaged the the entire thing. It had some flavor of Microsoft CE on it.... didn't work, couldn't access it. No phoning home, no workie.

 

[elface]

Thanks for the response. I unhooked the dvr from the wall and can still view the recordings. According to the verizon guy, the recordings are saved to the hard drive of the dvr, so I don't think they can erase the recordings without access to the dvr.

 

[JohnnyYuma]

Can't you just hook the output of the DVR to a recorder and record what you saved onto DVD's or VCR tapes??

 

[eugene11]

what is this vcr you speek of?

I tried to do this with a direct tv dvr box and couldnt watch my recorded shows with out it phoning home first. I bet if the box were to be reset after you unplug the signal then you wouldnt beable to access it again. but what do i know?