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While some people have said they have got the drive to be viewable on a pc and see the files.. they are encyrpted, and not able to play back.
(pretty much all companies PVRs are the same way, bell, etc. Trust me, my boss just tried 🙂 )
Also with the rogers units.. when you plug in a drive as an extender... it actually set it up as a STRIPPED drive.. as in were it takes the internal and the external, and the rogers box views it as ONE large drive.
Any recordings, could be have data split being stored on both and internal and external.
no you can not
plugging any device into the usb port, will try to EXTEND the hard drive (if a pvr) over the size of the hard drive and what was plugged in USB.
Moving to another unit, would cause it to re-try to format the drive..
If you want to play back from another box in the house, you can get the whole home PVR setup.
It looks like the only "consumer friendly" way of doing this is to buy a standard definition DVD Recorder, connecting it to your netbox, and press play on the recording and pressing record on the dvd player at the same time, provided tbe broadcaster has not embedded copy right protection into the recording, it should work.
There is no way to download from the box itself (say in a digital movie format, etc). Everything is encoded.
The only thing you could do, is plug the output of your PVR into a recording device of some form:
- DVD writer
- Capture device for the computer
- VHS
You would need to go out of the component (3 cables for video and 2 audio) for more HD, and composite (single video and 2 audio), into the recording device.
Then its pretty much press play on the playback device, and record on the other.
All that being said.. you will need to do this before you cancel rogers, as once its canceled, the box will not boot back up, and be able to work to play the stuff back.
@Gdkitty wrote:
There is no way to download from the box itself (say in a digital movie format, etc). Everything is encoded.
The only thing you could do, is plug the output of your PVR into a recording device of some form:
- DVD writer
- Capture device for the computer
- VHS
You would need to go out of the component (3 cables for video and 2 audio) for more HD, and composite (single video and 2 audio), into the recording device.
Then its pretty much press play on the playback device, and record on the other.
All that being said.. you will need to do this before you cancel rogers, as once its canceled, the box will not boot back up, and be able to work to play the stuff back.
What GDkitty said is correct. If you stop and think about it for a second, the cable companies PVR is designed for people to watch a Television show at a "Later Time" than it was originally aired. It was Never Intended to be used ti permanently archive your shows for ever or to give you the option to download them or extract them to other devices. They know it cant be done easily that is why when you ask them how, they are not going to give you a straight answer because its not in their best interest to educate you how to do that.
If you think about it, the new ignite sytem has a "Cloud PVR" so there is no storage ie hard drive at your location recording the shows, they are on the cloud which makes it even more challenging for you to extract them and keep them for personal use.
Now don;t get me wrong, just because its challenging does not make it impossible to extract the recordings and archive them permanently, it just means its a little more complex than the average user would know about, so usually more skilled people are able to do it. Yes you would have to invest in some kind of recording equiptment such as a Standard Definition DVD Recorder, or VCR, you can also invest in High Definition video capture devices or video cards and use the software to record the video feed onto a digital file on your computer.
HOW you want to achieve this is totally up to you and determined by how much you are willing to spend on this. but we can give you advice if you need. thanks1
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