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How to use your PC as a DVR

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Millennials or younger generations might not understand the trouble of having to wait until a certain hour towatch your favorite television show or movie.

Today, time is no longer a factor. Cable TV, YouTube, torrents, and video-on-demand online subscriptions have changed the landscape so thatwatchingyour favorite flicks, or series, at any time, and from any location is a matter of a few clicks.

Buying a standalone digital video recorder (DVR), or even renting one may be costly over time, so if you don’t have a DVR, there are various options available. And one isusing your own PC as a DVR.

As strange as it may sound, especially if you haven’t tried it before, it actually works, whether you’re using an old or new PC.

How can I use my PC as a DVR?

How can I use my PC as a DVR?

Before going into the details, there are four things you need:

How to set the PC as a DVR?

You can record as many shows as you like depending on thememory on your computer.

Any recorded programs are saved on your computer’s hard drive as a .wtv file.  If you want to watch any programs you have saved, you can go to Recorded TV screen.

Instead of this setup, you could use an app to stream all your favorite content – not just the video content.CyberLink PowerDVDcan serve perfectly as a media player for videos, TV shows, music, and photos.

Get the Ultra plan andyou receive 100GB of personal storage, so you can easily download your favorite media file in the Cloud and then copy and share it with your friends and family.

You can also rewind, pause, fast forward, or record programs and store them for playback at a later time,record multiple programs at the same time, and burn DVDs of your recorded programs.

So, are you ready to use your PC as a DVR?

Share with us your experience if you’ve tried it before, and if you’re just starting, let us know whether the steps listed here helped, by dropping your comment in the section below.

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Milan Stanojevic

Windows Toubleshooting Expert

Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.

Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.

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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.