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storing movies when using streaming
I have had Directv for about 16 years but cost is just gotten to high compared to using
streaming. Did not have a choice until the last year when I was able to get Tmobile Home Internet.) Anyway I think my Genie 44 is about 7-8 years old, can I use it for streaming and use it's harddrive to store movies rather than the cloud. Even with Tmobile I do sometimes loss internet for a while and storing on could would leave all my contact unavailable.
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Jrandomuser
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1 year ago
No - there’s no (practical) way to store the cloud DVR content off-line, nor to make any use of a Genie with the Stream (or “via Internet”) service.
(The impractical way is to play back a recording and use an analog converter on the output, saving the analog on a VCR or outboard DVR that has analog inputs. Like I said, not practical, but included in case someone responded “yes, there is!” 😀.)
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potluckman1
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1 year ago
Jrandomuser:
Sorry about not asking in prior comment but can one use something like a Ruko instead of the Genie as that does store locally.
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litzdog911
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1 year ago
Roku streaming devices do not store anything locally. You might find the shows you want via the various streaming channels. Some streaming networks will let you download shows to your smartphone/tablet.
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Jrandomuser
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1 year ago
The DTV streaming service is dependent on internet access at all times - none of the streaming devices (partially by plan, partially due to their lack of resources) store content locally, which is (at least part of) why there’s a cloud DVR. (This is basically true for all of the competing services also.). So there are multiple sources of content (live streams, DVR recordings, on-demand from DTV, on-demand from network apps) but all of them can only be delivered over the internet at the time the are viewed (that is, as “real-time” streams).
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