Yesterday I convinced my wife to let me get the new DVR from COX. This thing is ultra cool. It has on the front an input for USB 2.0 and standard video connections, there is also a smart card slot on the front also. on the back there is 2 firewire ports, 2 usb ports, HD connections, standard rca inputs, SPDIF Connection, S-VHS connections, Fiber optic connections, a DVI port to connect to a lcd, and an ethernet port. It gets 40 or 100 hours of recording. The GUI for it is sweet, its a whole lot better than the standard digital cable menu. If i had a HD TV it would even record stuff in HD so i could replay it in HD. The DVR only cost us an extra 14 bucks a month. If you were thinking of getting one i recommend it. Its freaking cool. When we picked it up we asked COX what internet speed we had since they now have tiers. They told us we were on the medimum level and we have 5megs of upload and download speed. IT seems like COX is getting things together since EATEL is gonna be in the Cable business soon. So my question is Does anyone know if i could hook it to my network to copy off the shows? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20040923/b7e16dca/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 23 12:10:18 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Fournet) Date: Thu Sep 23 12:10:08 2004 Subject: [brlug-general] COX DVR In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The ethernet port on the unit is for the integrated DOCSIS cable modem that Cox has disabled. Doubt that there's a way to get to the content that way. The Firewire or USB ports seem like more likely ways to copy the content off, but those are probably also disabled. Motorola builds those boxes so that the local providers can easily turn ports and features off and on. On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:41, Tim Sullivan wrote: > Yesterday I convinced my wife to let me get the new DVR from COX. This > thing is ultra cool. It has on the front an input for USB 2.0 and > standard video connections, there is also a smart card slot on the > front also. on the back there is 2 firewire ports, 2 usb ports, HD > connections, standard rca inputs, SPDIF Connection, S-VHS connections, > Fiber optic connections, a DVI port to connect to a lcd, and an > ethernet port. It gets 40 or 100 hours of recording. The GUI for it is > sweet, its a whole lot better than the standard digital cable menu. If > i had a HD TV it would even record stuff in HD so i could replay it in > HD. The DVR only cost us an extra 14 bucks a month. If you were > thinking of getting one i recommend it. Its freaking cool. When we > picked it up we asked COX what internet speed we had since they now > have tiers. They told us we were on the medimum level and we have > 5megs of upload and download speed. IT seems like COX is getting > things together since EATEL is gonna be in the Cable business soon. So > my question is Does anyone know if i could hook it to my network to > copy off the shows? > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
