InfiniteNow Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 There was another thread on Hypography that touched on a similar topic to this (HD TV gets HD HDD DVR), but my question is a bit different... So, I was cueing up my DVR after work last night to watch some previous episodes of 24 when I had a thought... Any chance of having an external device (perhaps even a memory card of sorts) on which one could store data from DVRed programs without the requirement of deleing once space is used (i.e... get a new device. keep all data from previous)? I love having the option to DVR shows, but hate deleting them. Transferring to VHS is just not an option. Possible yes, but reasonable, no. I would also want to add labels and catalogue shows attaching certain key words on which I could search to find all programs I have which might reference various topics (let's say... cooking salmon, or some random nonsense) then have that serve as my "recorded list" and play only shows matching this subset from the search criteria.<sorry..long and poorly worded sentence> I would ultimately want to route all of these hard drives (or memory cards or whatever) through a central hub... then further search for and launch programming at the touch of a button regardless of where it is stored. Is this being developed somewhere? Is it possible given current context and limitations? I am on the right track, but there's a better way to do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 http://www.superwarehouse.com/Maxtor/G01Y006/p/726077 that should keep you going for a while, if thats to much there are smaller cheaper options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted January 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Man... that's sweet. One could do some serious archiving if you have a room full of those.Don't the cable/satellite companies have some sort of encryption with their programming? I mean, storing it is all well and good, but it won't make much difference if you can't play it back.<sorry, tech is not really my forte. I appreciate any insight shared> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 I dont know - if you can already record and play-back shows and you can hook this up with your current system then I dont see why it should make a difference. I have no idea about encryption of broadcasted T.V and such... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 um, how about a MythTV box running all this, you could have removable USB drives and store as much stuff on them as you want really... http://www.mythtv.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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