PVR ready?

[TiminMb]

What does it mean if a receiver is PVR ready via usb? What do you have to add to it to make it do recording? A whole PVR unit?

 

[Anole]

Which receiver?
The ones I've seen, just need an external USB hard drive.
Quite a few have hit the market since the first of the year.
I guess making the hard drive your responsibility, cuts the manufacturing cost, and lets the unit sell into the market significantly cheaper.
Plus, it's extra easy to take that hard drive over to your computer, and burn a DVD of your favorite shows.

 

[TiminMb]

A conaxsat duo pvr receiver.

On a similar vein, ever see anything like this?

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320121846437&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:CA:1

 

[SatinKzo]

I reviewed the Conaxsat Trio in the equipment review section
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=96667 In the review, note that the DUO does not have the divx function of the Trio.

You just plus a USB hard drive in one of the USB ports and set it up in the software (format etc). It works well now that the software is out for it. Supposedly the coolsat 7000 is another nice one, it even has a 40 minutes buffer built in for trickplay functionality.

The Trio I have is very easy to get recordings from and burn to dvd.

 

[Anole]

Supposedly the coolsat 7000 is another nice one...

The Trio I have is very easy to get recordings from and burn to dvd.

Over on the VideoReDo forum, someone reported that they were making DVDs from their Coolsat 7000 receiver.
I just love informative reviews (yours), and reports of success like these! :up

 

[SatinKzo]

Oh yes, take the .ts file from the USB-HD, videoredo it, then nerovision or similar to DVD! Very quick and easy. Depending on hardware of PC, it's as fast as 30 minutes from USB-HD to DVD.

 

[dgd44]

files on HD

Hi, people are referring to the .ts file. I loaned my USB HD to a friend with a coolsat 7000. Works great for him. When i got the drive back with some shows still on it, all I could see from my pc was 'garbage' file names and extensions with boxes and undercores, eg *3*_*'squarebox' 'Squarebox'122.*(square box)

Does anything have to be set on the coolsat to record in a certain format?
Or anything done to the pc to properly read the files on the drive?

I haven't been able to find anything on the web about this yet.
Thank
Dave

 

[Anole]

I believe there is a utility program with the CS7000, that lets you read the hard drive and save to your PC in either .TS (transport stream), or maybe mpeg format.

edit:
I tried to get you a link into the Coolsat web page, but it looks like they are updating their server.
You'll have to start here:
Coolsat USA - Official Web Site of Free To Air Satellite Receivers
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[dgd44]

Thank you for the info.. I have seached the coolsat site and 'googled' for a while.. I can't find any reference to any utility software. Any one with a CoolSat 7000, do you see .ts file right from the USB hard drive or use a utility to view the files??

Thanks again
Dave

 

[RtpiFan]

Give VideoReDo a try

VideoReDo Mpeg Video Editing Software, Mpeg Editor and Video Edit

That what i used when had my coolsat 7000

 

[dgd44]

Thanks RtpiFan, did your hard drive actually have .ts files or the funny names i am getting??

 

[dgd44]

Thanks RtpiFan, did your usb hard drive show .ts files or the funny names i am getting?