Can you transfer recorded programs from one dvr to another dvr

and even if you swapped hard drives it still wouldnt work because the recording keys are married to the serial number of the dvr

The fact you're not able to Transfer your recordings to the new DVR is so BOGUS to me. When I called due to having TV issues (turns out we had a defective receiver due to its hardware), NOBODY informed me that it would Completely 100% Erase EVERY Single Recording we had on our TV. And what (Edited per community guidelines) is some movies that I LOVE watching are NOT going to AIR for another like 6 months to maybe even a year now which also drives me NUTS.

We even had recordings that specifically Stated: "KEEP UNTIL I ERASE."--Seriously, WHY would it Delete those? And I was LOOKING FORWARD to watching a Recorded Movie of mine too. I honestly wasn't let alone didn't know that when setting up a new DVR that it'd completely Erase ALL the Recordings we had on there since I was NEVER informed of that to begin with. AT&T: So this situation doesn't happen again, Please inform Your Customers of this esp. if/when they need a New receiver. 

Tbh, the new receivers should not even be able to Erase the recordings to begin with esp. the ones that have a checkmark and say: "KEEP UNTIL I ERASE." Now, I'm upset and disappointed because I can't watch a movie that I was Looking Forward to watching from the Recorded List. And I recently recorded some shows I could watch with my mom that I hadn't seen in Forever.

@_xyzzy_  1.) I'm aware your comment was 2 years ago in all, but 2.) An option for transferring recordings from one DVR to another would probably be through an HDMI cord if a DVR happened to have 2 HDMI slots on the back of the receiver. I looked for it, but unfortunately there's only 1 slot on the back of my new receiver.

I am so thankful I managed to watch a really old DCOM movie before this happened to me...but tbh, Disney Channel really needs to add their DCOM movies to their website where 1 example is Minutemen. I remember hearing about it airing, but idk if I forgot to record or not though (I'm usually really good at recording things like this), but if it's not recorded, now it's not going to Re-Air for like another 4 years or so. I'm an avid Disney fan because I even had Frozen recorded and I *LOVE* that movie. I'm going to attempt to recover them if possible...(if not, I have to go through the long process of searching through search) if they happen to air again and some only air once a year :(.

One of the downfalls of a physical DVR :( it’s not just u-verse you would run into this on any providers physical DVR if something went wrong, the DVR was most likely not defective. Eventually the data on the hard drive will most likely corrupt which would have required a format anyway so they just swapped it. Either way you’re losing your recordings. Most everything is on demand or online somewhere these days. On AT&T TV it’s in the cloud but deletes after 90 days. Everything is moving to the cloud eventually and they won’t allow you to keep recordings forever anyway. 🤷‍♂️

Please don't respond to threads over a year old. It's ok to start a new thead.

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