My Dilemma

[marenlee]

I'm with Dish Network for a couple more days and am changing to Directv on Tuesday (mostly for Fox College Sports and ESPNU HD). Unfortunately my VIP 722 DVR has the Bison/Minnesota game, Bison playoff games from last year, and the NC game. I really really do not want to lose these. So I'm hoping for alternatives. Are there sources out there where I can get the full games? Anyone with the VIP 722 can I transfer the files to an external HD? I really wanted ESPNU in HD for the playoffs and future Bison games on TV with Fox College sports. I figured that was worth ditching Dish for Directv. And I'll get to watch the Vikings choke again year after year.

[loudsilverado]

BriDog or CaBisonFan are experts, pm one of them imo.

[TILIS-BisonFan]

I have used this to transfer files to my computer. http://www.amazon.com/Honestech-VHS-.../dp/B0040FT30O im sure there is something out there that is better but this is extremely easy to use and relatively cheap for something like this.

[IDDUKES]

I'm with Dish Network for a couple more days and am changing to Directv on Tuesday (mostly for Fox College Sports and ESPNU HD). Unfortunately my VIP 722 DVR has the Bison/Minnesota game, Bison playoff games from last year, and the NC game. I really really do not want to lose these. So I'm hoping for alternatives. Are there sources out there where I can get the full games? Anyone with the VIP 722 can I transfer the files to an external HD? I really wanted ESPNU in HD for the playoffs and future Bison games on TV with Fox College sports. I figured that was worth ditching Dish for Directv. And I'll get to watch the Vikings choke again year after year.

I think you can attach an external HD to the receiver, there is a one time fee that unlocks the receiver to allow you to hook up the HD, once it on the HD I have no idea what you can do with it, if it's readable with another program like windows media player or some other software other then another dish receiver.

[CaBisonFan]

There's a type of encryption on most DVRs that makes a transfer of data to another hard drive very difficult...but the product that TILIS listed has been known to be successful. I bought a cheap DVD recorder and plugged it directly into the DVR...and recorded each game directly. The quality is average...but better than nothing. Wish I had a better answer. It sucks to lose those games.

[BisonTeacher]

If you are computer savvy....I used something like this to capture the HD games off my DVR and then burn them to disc.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815100049

[marenlee]

I have used this to transfer files to my computer. http://www.amazon.com/Honestech-VHS-.../dp/B0040FT30O im sure there is something out there that is better but this is extremely easy to use and relatively cheap for something like this.

Lifesaver! I went ahead and got this and saved all my Bison games. I'm very surprised how good the quality was considering I used S-video cables (no HDMI for this). So I was able to salvage the entire 2011 playoffs (except JMU) and the Gopher game. I also transferred my '98, '00 Vikings NFL films highlight videos, and miscellaneous Twins stuff. I'm willing to share all these goodies, just message me if you're interested.