Can I back up the programmes I have stored on the UPC DVR box

Merch

I'd like to know if its possible to back up the programmes I have on the UPC DVR box.

The box has a USB and a Network connection at the back.
Its says made in the PRC for Thomson

Wabbit Ears

ans is no, they're encrypted.

Capt'n Midnight

SKY use the same trick too.

In both cases all you can do is play the programs and use an external recorder to grab them off the SCART socket.

Merch

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

SKY use the same trick too.

In both cases all you can do is play the programs and use an external recorder to grab them off the SCART socket.

Might be a bit late for me, they are taking it back in few days

Anyone know a cheap, reasonable quality recorder? that would be plug and play?
It would have to be shop bought as I couldnt wait till something was delivered.

Damn I have some good stuff recorded on it.

icdg

The moral of the story is that a PVR is not something you should be using for material you want to keep and or remove. Using a recorder that uses removable media like a DVD-R is the thing to do here, but then you lose the EPG integration of course.

Merch

I thought I had more time

the account closed sooner than I expected, so I cant access stuff on the DVR box anymore.
I guess i should really have looked into this before now, the week its going.

Capt'n Midnight

icdg wrote: »

The moral of the story is that a propriety PVR is not something you should be using for material you want to keep and or remove.

fyp

many of the generic FTA boxes will save in a transferrable format. This works well for SKY when you have a card with a subscription (and a suitable receiver) and don't mind loosing the EPG. I don't know if there is a suitable DVB-C receiver that you can use as a PVR with the UPC card, even if the terms and conditions allowed it, and again you'd probably loose the EPG.


Regardless - there are two types of storage device. There are those that have already failed and those that are going to. So if you want to keep something you need at least one backup copy.

Merch

I will probably come back and enquire about this when I have the Sky box, I just gave up on the UPC box and ordered sky, the UPC box and remote are so so crap it was annoying. I didn't give myself time to look into backing up the programmes I had.

IM0

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

SKY use the same trick too.

In both cases all you can do is play the programs and use an external recorder to grab them off the SCART socket.

explain please!

by using a ?
set to?
which has?

Capt'n Midnight

IM0 wrote: »

explain please!

by using a ?
set to?
which has?

http://tinyurl.com/b936pbz

ted1

I have device I place between the video cable that removes all protective rights and allows to record in to anything with a yellow red white connection lead.
[MOD EDIT] Link deleted.

icdg

Okay, no discussing breaking copy protection please.