What DirecTv set up do you have?
We’ve got the Genie II with the dish and connected to WiFi, with a 2 TB hard drive that is connected to 7 TV’s in the house, through the mini genie receivers. If one of our recordings get’s accidentally deleted, most of the shows can be found on the on-demand feature and resaved to the hard drive for future viewing.
^^^We’re not near that fancy. One reciever with DVR. One TV.
All this griping about missing my TV and I swear I can’t find anything to watch. Gah!!
I’ve got CNN on, muted.
There is a TiVo for DirecTV. ( THR22 DIRECTV HD TiVo DVR - Upgraded with up to 300 HD Hours) And you can generally recover programs from a TiVo drive, as long as the drive is still readable. (It may be complicated though.) Years ago we switched to DirecTV because we stopped being able to use our TiVo with cable. Then we switched back to cable with a newer TiVo. Then we cut the cord, and we mostly just stream stuff via Chromecast. But I still think TiVo is the best DVR system out there. If I were to sign up for a “cable” deal these days, I think it would be YoutubeTV.
Those, like all TiVos, have encrypted HDs that are matched to the motherboard. Both have to be working to be able to access the recordings.
I recently replaced an ancient DirecTV HR21 DVR, requesting a HR24 for the replacement. Of course, they sent the Tivo HR22. I complained. They reluctantly sent the HR24.
I asked if they wanted the Tivo back. They said no, that I could just throw it and the HR21 away. Yeah, thanks for sending me a Tivo that you literally consider as garbage.
They politely asked me to recycle my broken receiver responsibly. They said to remove the card first. I could’ve had a free empty box UPS’d to me with a shipping label to an electronics recycling center(postage on me). I said, nah I could handle it. Went right in the burn barrel.
Yeah, maybe so. I’ve replaced failing hard drives, but I have been able to get them to work long enough to successfully clone them (outside of the TiVo.). Then the new drive still matched the motherboard. (It’s complicated – moreso than ordinary drive cloning). And I don’t know if you can do it on the newest ones.
I hope you’re joking.
I am.