Can I record directly from my DirectTV (harddrive) to my computer

I was wondering how do I record directly to my computer using Media Center. I
know it can record direct from TV but why can it not record input that is
coming directly from the same DirectTV box its the same input signal but HOW
do I do it? If it can't be done that is a very very sad mistake by
Microsoft...But it wouldn't be the first time. I do not have Vista I am using
XP with the Media Center.

Curious
Sat Jun 07 06:27:55 PDT 2008

DirectTV receives all of its digital satellite in encrypted form and the
DiretTV box decrypts them
Currently DirectTV does not provide a tuner for use in a PC that can
decrypted their signals, however, they have said in the past that they
would.
A direct TV satellite signal is not the same as a ATSC OTA digital signal.
"SuperDave99" <SuperDave99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I was wondering how do I record directly to my computer using Media Center.
>I
> know it can record direct from TV but why can it not record input that is
> coming directly from the same DirectTV box its the same input signal but
> HOW
> do I do it? If it can't be done that is a very very sad mistake by
> Microsoft...But it wouldn't be the first time. I do not have Vista I am
> using
> XP with the Media Center.

Jaime
Sat Jun 07 09:52:24 PDT 2008

I'm not sure if I am understanding what you are asking. By "record direct
from TV", do you mean from a standard TV signal (like an antenna)?

If so, you can record from your set-top satellite box, you just need to use
a composite or s-video signal out of your box into the tuner card and MCE
would control the box with the IR hardware.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL

"SuperDave99" <SuperDave99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F3EF3471-1298-4C26-98B0-6B67A89FBAB7@microsoft.com...
> I was wondering how do I record directly to my computer using Media
> Center. I
> know it can record direct from TV but why can it not record input that is
> coming directly from the same DirectTV box its the same input signal but
> HOW
> do I do it? If it can't be done that is a very very sad mistake by
> Microsoft...But it wouldn't be the first time. I do not have Vista I am
> using
> XP with the Media Center.

SuperDave99
Sat Jun 07 10:37:00 PDT 2008

NO what I mean is I have DirectTV. Its a satellite TV service. Instead of
cable I have a dish on top of my house and I have a reciever that recieves
the signal. Now my question is I have shows and movies recorded on the
harddrive in the reciever and I wanted to hook up my computer to the
reciever and copt to my computer to get them off of the DirectTV
reciever...Get it? Its not incripted at all once its on the harddrive I could
record to a VHS or a DVD recorder but mine broke done and wanted to go direct
from DirectTV reciever harddrive to computer harddrive using Media
Center..Can you do that?

"Jaime" wrote:

> I'm not sure if I am understanding what you are asking. By "record direct
> from TV", do you mean from a standard TV signal (like an antenna)?
>
> If so, you can record from your set-top satellite box, you just need to use
> a composite or s-video signal out of your box into the tuner card and MCE
> would control the box with the IR hardware.
> --
> James
> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL
>
> "SuperDave99" <SuperDave99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F3EF3471-1298-4C26-98B0-6B67A89FBAB7@microsoft.com...
> > I was wondering how do I record directly to my computer using Media
> > Center. I
> > know it can record direct from TV but why can it not record input that is
> > coming directly from the same DirectTV box its the same input signal but
> > HOW
> > do I do it? If it can't be done that is a very very sad mistake by
> > Microsoft...But it wouldn't be the first time. I do not have Vista I am
> > using
> > XP with the Media Center.
>
>

SuperDave99
Sat Jun 07 10:38:00 PDT 2008

NO what I mean is I have DirectTV. Its a satellite TV service. Instead of
cable I have a dish on top of my house and I have a reciever that recieves
the signal. Now my question is I have shows and movies recorded on the
harddrive in the reciever and I wanted to hook up my computer to the
reciever and copt to my computer to get them off of the DirectTV
reciever...Get it? Its not incripted at all once its on the harddrive I could
record to a VHS or a DVD recorder but mine broke done and wanted to go direct
from DirectTV reciever harddrive to computer harddrive using Media
Center..Can you do that?

"Curious" wrote:

> DirectTV receives all of its digital satellite in encrypted form and the
> DiretTV box decrypts them
> Currently DirectTV does not provide a tuner for use in a PC that can
> decrypted their signals, however, they have said in the past that they
> would.
> A direct TV satellite signal is not the same as a ATSC OTA digital signal.
> "SuperDave99" <SuperDave99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F3EF3471-1298-4C26-98B0-6B67A89FBAB7@microsoft.com...
> >I was wondering how do I record directly to my computer using Media Center.
> >I
> > know it can record direct from TV but why can it not record input that is
> > coming directly from the same DirectTV box its the same input signal but
> > HOW
> > do I do it? If it can't be done that is a very very sad mistake by
> > Microsoft...But it wouldn't be the first time. I do not have Vista I am
> > using
> > XP with the Media Center.
>

Curious
Sat Jun 07 11:08:24 PDT 2008

I fully understood that you have DirectTV and a DirectTV STB.
If you have an analog tuner that is Media Center compatible and you have
the a Media Center IR receiver and remote then you can easily feed the live
program output from your DirectTV STB to it in standard NTSC 480i SD format
using either RF over channel 3 or 4 or via S-Video (preferred and record
it). You then can also fool MCE by telling it to record a live program and
then use DirectTV remote to actually play a previously recorded program.
The recorded encoded files on the DirecTV STB are not in a disk format that
is recognized by Windows so they can not just be transferred.


"SuperDave99" <SuperDave99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BFD59051-A463-49F3-ACD3-E4A3722742F2@microsoft.com...
> NO what I mean is I have DirectTV. Its a satellite TV service. Instead of
> cable I have a dish on top of my house and I have a reciever that recieves
> the signal. Now my question is I have shows and movies recorded on the
> harddrive in the reciever and I wanted to hook up my computer to the
> reciever and copt to my computer to get them off of the DirectTV
> reciever...Get it? Its not incripted at all once its on the harddrive I
> could
> record to a VHS or a DVD recorder but mine broke done and wanted to go
> direct
> from DirectTV reciever harddrive to computer harddrive using Media
> Center..Can you do that?
>
> "Curious" wrote:
>
>> DirectTV receives all of its digital satellite in encrypted form and the
>> DiretTV box decrypts them
>> Currently DirectTV does not provide a tuner for use in a PC that can
>> decrypted their signals, however, they have said in the past that they
>> would.
>> A direct TV satellite signal is not the same as a ATSC OTA digital
>> signal.
>> "SuperDave99" <SuperDave99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F3EF3471-1298-4C26-98B0-6B67A89FBAB7@microsoft.com...
>> >I was wondering how do I record directly to my computer using Media
>> >Center.
>> >I
>> > know it can record direct from TV but why can it not record input that
>> > is
>> > coming directly from the same DirectTV box its the same input signal
>> > but
>> > HOW
>> > do I do it? If it can't be done that is a very very sad mistake by
>> > Microsoft...But it wouldn't be the first time. I do not have Vista I am
>> > using
>> > XP with the Media Center.
>>

Jaime
Sat Jun 07 13:05:57 PDT 2008

No need to be snide (especially when you want someone to help you for
free) -- you might notice that I said "your set-top **satellite** box", so
obviously I know that DirectTV is satellite service.

Are you currently connecting Media Center to the set top box, if so how? If
not, there are several ways to you could connect the output of the box to
the Media Center PC, if in fact the signal is just a normal non-encrypted
output. You could also just use some program outside of MCE, if you have no
desire to use the rest of the MCE functions -- most tuner card come with
their own capture software.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL

"SuperDave99" <SuperDave99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0E50710F-1F73-47FB-A6AB-62ACEE7096E8@microsoft.com...
> NO what I mean is I have DirectTV. Its a satellite TV service. Instead of
> cable I have a dish on top of my house and I have a reciever that recieves
> the signal. Now my question is I have shows and movies recorded on the
> harddrive in the reciever and I wanted to hook up my computer to the
> reciever and copt to my computer to get them off of the DirectTV
> reciever...Get it? Its not incripted at all once its on the harddrive I
> could
> record to a VHS or a DVD recorder but mine broke done and wanted to go
> direct
> from DirectTV reciever harddrive to computer harddrive using Media
> Center..Can you do that?
>
> "Jaime" wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if I am understanding what you are asking. By "record direct
>> from TV", do you mean from a standard TV signal (like an antenna)?
>>
>> If so, you can record from your set-top satellite box, you just need to
>> use
>> a composite or s-video signal out of your box into the tuner card and MCE
>> would control the box with the IR hardware.
>> --
>> James
>> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL
>>
>> "SuperDave99" <SuperDave99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F3EF3471-1298-4C26-98B0-6B67A89FBAB7@microsoft.com...
>> > I was wondering how do I record directly to my computer using Media
>> > Center. I
>> > know it can record direct from TV but why can it not record input that
>> > is
>> > coming directly from the same DirectTV box its the same input signal
>> > but
>> > HOW
>> > do I do it? If it can't be done that is a very very sad mistake by
>> > Microsoft...But it wouldn't be the first time. I do not have Vista I am
>> > using
>> > XP with the Media Center.
>>
>>