Hookup a Hard Drive to Samsung HL-R6167 as a VCR?

 

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Username: Deegan

Post Number: 9
Registered: May-05
The native control interface of the Samsung (D-Net) allows me to hookup IEEE1394 devices to my TV via the firewire cable output. The manual only references high end AV components like Digital VCR's (approximate cost: $4K+). But it got me thinking, perhaps I could purchase a stand alone hard drive (self-powered) with firewire connectivity, could hook it up to the TV then enable D-Net. This would (in theory) enable me the ability to use the "TV Guide" feature and the possibility of recording HiDef images off OTA antenna to the hard drive.

Anyone have experience or success in this kind of hookup? Is it even possible? Am I asking in the right forum? Thanks in advance.
 

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Save your money it won't work. The HDD will not be an HDCP compliant device, that is why people are using S-VHS recorders to archive. Besides Firewire outputs uncompressed video data wheras DVR's which are copy protected and record to an HDD record the MPEG2 data steam.

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