Use one of THESE or a DVD recorder, then rip. I find the DVD recorder to be the easiest method. Even though a DVD recorder is limited to 480i, recording SD from HD material still yields excellent commercial DVD quality results. Works great with Dish since you can playback on TV2 any time for dubbing purposes while watching something else on TV1. On DirecTV, you have to do it real time. So I did all my dubbing overnight when I had DirecTV. I do a lot less of this than I used to since many things can now be streamed on demand from many sources (hulu, netflix, etc.).Are there ways to transfer recodings for Dish Network or DIrectv to the PC?