In what could be one of the coolest projects a company could undertake, DirecTV has now offering a program called DirecTV2pc which allows you to watch all the recordings from all of your DVR units on your PCs.
In order to get it up and running you have to download the tester application to determine if your machine meets the minumum requirement to run the client. When I ran it against my tower, the application indicated that I could not run the application since my monitor is connected via DVI and my monitor doesn't support HDCP (the copy protection scheme). I continued anyway and it works perfectly so far. This is almost as good as my old hacked Series 2 DirecTivo, which I hacked only to be able to stream my recordings and increase the hard disk capacity.
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