The Hauppauge converter is just a video capture device - no reason it wouldn't work. The problem is that you need to play everything in real time on the DVR and make sure it doesn't get interrupted. There will also be a slight loss in quality due to the conversion process.
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www.hauppauge.com/site/p ··· pvr.htmlIf you want good (perfect) quality copies quickly, the only way is to get a TiVo or CableCARD tuner for your computer and use Windows Media Center. I'm not sure about WMC, but there are programs to convert the .TiVo files you can download from the TiVo into normal MPEG2 files for playback anywhere. (This only works with channels other than HBO on FiOS). You can download from modern TiVos at rates >15MB/sec, so 8x real time or faster (hour long show in 6 minutes).