Okay DirecTV DVR People...

[Carbon Can Kat]

Is there a way I can take shows recorded on our DVR and burn them to a DVD? I have looked in the manual and it mentions a USB cable port and ethernet port but I don't see any mention of how to transfer the show to my computer. Looking for advice before I screw something up big time.

[Snafu484]

I have a DirecTv DVR and I think I looked this up a long time ago.... but its useless... yes the DVR has all of those ports but they are disabled out of the box from what i've read. I could be wrong... been a longtime since ive looked into it.

UPDATE : Was flipping through the DirecTV forums... apparently anything recorded to the DVR's hard drive is encrypted and will only play on the original recorder.
http://forums.directv.com/pe/action/forums/displaythread?postID=10340588&ie=x#e10340588

[Gmoney]

yeah and the encryption changes so much..

[eddie98]

yup those ports are not hooked up on the inside.

[bigmixx]

What they said. The USB ports are disabled. They put them on the box for future upgrades about 4 years ago. Guess the future hasn't got here yet.

[FireMedicATL]

they are correct, you can copy them to a new dvr, but that is all.