It's funny -- I used to copy and transcode from my ReplayTV back in the day, and when I joined the Dish Network DVR club, I lamented the loss of that functionality. But with hard drives on the DVRs getting so large, and not wanting to watch recordings on a small smartphone screen, it's not nearly as important to me as it used to be. I used to try to build up a giant library of archived shows, but then I realized I was never watching them, and now I can get many of the ones I'd care to from Netflix instant.