OT: Rogers PVR: A Question...?

Robert Brockway robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 1 05:29:49 UTC 2009


On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, ted leslie wrote:

> ok, i have a 8300HD, and will give it  go.
> now, if the stuff goes to the external,
> and i then remove it and plug it into a linux box,
> can I some how get the contents off it?
> or is it encrypted some how, and there is just no way?

I've been doing some reading on this.  I read on digitialhome.ca that the 
FS is encrypted and that the data is only visible on _that PVR_ let alone 
a Linux box.  Apparently the filesystem may be proprietory anyway.

> will it except a 1.5TB drive i wonder?

Good question.  It all depends on whether the hardware/firmware/etc can 
detect a HDD of that capacity, just like on a regular box.  Since they are 
SATA I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try one if you had one available. I'm 
going to try adding at least 1TB externally.

As an aside the thread below indicates that non-Rogers Set Top Boxes 
can't/won't be enabled on their network:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=35032

Cheers,

Rob

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