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I transferred some recordings from the TivoHD (or Series3) to my PC, and then transferred those recordings from the PC to my TiVo Series2, but they won play?

April 26, 2017pc play recordings series2 series3 TiVo TivoHD transferred

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I transferred some recordings from the TivoHD (or Series3) to my PC, and then transferred those recordings from the PC to my TiVo Series2, but they won play?

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TiVo Desktop won’t prevent you from transferring HD recordings to the Series2, but the Series2 will not play them. The Series2 can only play recordings from SD channels. Some SD recordings downloaded from the TivoHD (or Series3) are also incompatible with the Series2. When you use MRV to transfer SD recordings from the TiVoHD or Series3 to the Series2, the TiVo transcodes (converts) those SD recordings to a compatible SD format for the Series2. However, you bypass that transcoding (conversion) when you transfer the recording directly to your PC.