External Hard Drive Recording Programs Using USB Port--Help?

shibainudog · 06-03-2007, 02:56 PM

Hello, I have a question that I need answering. It will determine whether or not I get a TiVo.

Can you record programs to an external hard drive via the USB port on the TiVo HD unit?

ForrestB · 06-03-2007, 03:06 PM

No Tivo ever made let you save shows to an attached USB hard drive.

JimSpence · 06-03-2007, 03:56 PM

Here's a recent thread about this.
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=353437

classicsat · 06-04-2007, 06:14 PM

As said, not TiVo allows you to connect a USB HDD to it for any reason.

The Series 3 does not support in-home transfers at this time, which is the only way to digitally get recordings from a TiVo DVR that would otherwise support such transfers.

You can add an eSATA drive to expand recording capacity, buy you can't choose to put particular recordings onto which drives, copy from the internal to external, or connect the drive to a PC to access recordings.

If you want to use a USB drive to store recordigns, you can connect one to your computer and TiVoToGo to it, if transfers were to be enabled on the S3, and copying permssions allow it.