Copying programs from one tivo to another.

[AWyant]

I posted this in the directv tivo forum, and they said I need your guys help. I've searched and read that hooking a USB hard drive up to the TIVO won't allow you to back up to it, but is there anyway to get programs from one tivo to another?

Basically my friend and I have the same TIVO (Phillips Directv DSR 708)but not the same Directv programming packages. If there is a way for us to record a program and move it to the other's TIVO, neither of us would have to change our packages (basically he has one channel I want and vice versa, but in order for us to get them, we'd both have to upgrade packages for another $10/mo to get to that level).

Is there an easy "non-hacking" way to do that? He's not keen on the idea of cracking his case to mod it. I'm not afraid of doing that so much as I'm fairly proficient in computers.

Any help is appreciated.

[ttodd1]

Without hacking - No

[AWyant]

Thanks for the reply. I've kept looking and found a thread that sounds exactly like what I'm asking (figures:-\). Anyway, thanks for letting me know. If I don't find the answer (hack or non-hack) in it, then I'll follow up here.

[JWThiers]

Originally Posted by AWyant

I posted this in the directv tivo forum, and they said I need your guys help. I've searched and read that hooking a USB hard drive up to the TIVO won't allow you to back up to it, but is there anyway to get programs from one tivo to another?

Basically my friend and I have the same TIVO (Phillips Directv DSR 708)but not the same Directv programming packages. If there is a way for us to record a program and move it to the other's TIVO, neither of us would have to change our packages (basically he has one channel I want and vice versa, but in order for us to get them, we'd both have to upgrade packages for another $10/mo to get to that level).

Is there an easy "non-hacking" way to do that? He's not keen on the idea of cracking his case to mod it. I'm not afraid of doing that so much as I'm fairly proficient in computers.

Any help is appreciated.

Easy non hacking method could be use a DVD burner. But thats not Tivo to Tivo.