How-to: Use your TiVo Series3 eSATA port to add an external drive

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Randolph Lee @ May 5th 2007 1:44AM

Any experts out there that can help me get High Def shows off of my 2 HDirecTiVos? HR-10-250 model or of of the hard drive on my Cable box DCT6412 III motorola type provided by Adelipha but now being leased from Time Warner Cable the new owners they all seem to have the needed USB2 or firewire ports but with no way to use them(and I am hearing rumors that if I want the promised extra HD content on DirecTiVo I will have to junk my HR10-250s for a new non TiVo DVR (Heck I use the Motorola DCT6412III about 5% of the time as it as I hate the interface on it so much... but with it i only pay a low monthly rental fee the DirecTiVo HD units the first cost me almost $1000!! (Yes I live at the bleeding edge of technology)and the otheron a bargan at $500 and now after 3 years they are junk? and I am to shell out again... well which ever comes through with the High Def shows and stations T I want to watch I hope it will be so I can dump the other provider... it costs a small forturn each year to have all these systems to see the best selection of shows... and where are the history HD stations? oh dear my RANT button got pushed again

I have 3 HD DVRs and I can not do anything with them I would love to be able to take the shows off of them all on to the 4 X500 gig raid 5 drives on my quad 3ghz MacPro 2 gig ram (can get more if needed and x1900 video card so the shows can be redistrubited about the home via ny new 802.11 N Apple TV

So far I have not found anything to do this job... and my faith in the Tivo hacker comunity is being shaken

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Geoffrey Sperl @ May 5th 2007 10:34AM

This is really off-topic for here, but here's the scoop: Nothing will help you because the shows are already recorded and encrypted. If you were to hack your recorders today (which would require losing all of the old recorded material unless you get really in-depth and figure out how to slice in the hacks as opposed to formating the drive and going from there), and turn off the encryption (an easily done maneuver once the hacking is finished) and then add in the downloading tools you could grab any subsequent recordings.

It's not rocket science, but it's not easy. Google is your friend. As are numerous forums.

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