Hi folks, I am hoping someone can help me and point me in the right direction. So, you can download recorded programs from the dish hopper DVR to an external hard drive but when you connect the drive to the computer, windows can't even read the drive because the DVR had previously reformatted it in order to download the recordings. So basically what this is saying to me is you can download programs to an external drive but in order to watch these programs at a later date you have to upload them back onto the dish DVR meaning that if I want to keep these recordings I will have to be beholden to Dish forever!!!!!
There has to be a way to be able to get the programs from the DVR to an external hard drive, convert them to VLC friendly format such AVI or MP4 and watch them to my hearts content when ever and not be stuck with Dish.................or am I wasting my time even looking for a way..................would I have better success if I was using a TIVO or is that going to give me the same problems.
At the end of the day, my wife would be extremely grateful because she loves her old movies and unfortunately there are some that she has recorded that you can't even buy on DVD let alone bluray.
There has to be a way to be able to get the programs from the DVR to an external hard drive, convert them to VLC friendly format such AVI or MP4 and watch them to my hearts content when ever and not be stuck with Dish.................or am I wasting my time even looking for a way..................would I have better success if I was using a TIVO or is that going to give me the same problems.
At the end of the day, my wife would be extremely grateful because she loves her old movies and unfortunately there are some that she has recorded that you can't even buy on DVD let alone bluray.