Thanks Dan,
I went to 'broadbandreports.com' and nothing definitive jumped out
at me as I searched around. Tangental postings give the impression
that The 'content police' seem to be actively working towards their
goal of destroying access to copyright material retention short of
deleting our memories. Bummer. I'm flexible on eye patch related
sourcing issues, but I'm not an eye patch content provider :-). CNBC
reported this morning that an internet tv show provider -name escapes
me- is pressing quite hard to come up with an Internet TV Content
sourcing process that is holistic and inclusive of all cabletv
network content that is embraced by essentially everyone so everyone
'buys into it' and shares in the revenues. The cnbc folks were split
generationally on it's appeal and unanimous in the huge challenge of
getting 'everyone' to sign up. Seemed like they were looking at an
iTunes kind of portal based on ad revenues for income. A 'true'
internet based 'cable tv' site.
Richard
On Jan 13, 12:13 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 8:23 AM -0800 1/13/2009, aussieshepsrock wrote:
Can I use my Mac (g4 mini) to access the recordings in our Cable
DVR Box in a 'safe' to the box manner and in a 'successful' manner? It
is a 'Motorola DCH 3416 HD Dual Tuner DVR' with all the usual video
and audio connectors one might expect, but I noticed there are 2 USB
ports and a Firewire port right there on the connection panel on the
back of the box. I 'assume' accessing the Hard Drive inside the Box
via one of these jacks would be fairly likely, but I wonder what
pitfalls and perils I ought to be aware of before attempting anything.
I also wonder if the files it uses might be proprietary and/or
unaccessable or usable on my Mac.
I've got Verizon FiOS TV and a Motorola DVR... Verizon has *disabled*
all those extra ports. Can't even use them to add more storage space!
Go to broadbandreports.com and look for information about your DVR
and service provider on their boards. Make sure they're not disabled
on yours before going further...
My nebulous goal is the possibility of getting the recordings out
and onto opticals in some fashion.
Best I've been able to do is to put a $40 DVD Recorder between my DVR
and TV. Not a very good solution, but it does work.
It would be very cool to grab stuff and play it elsewhere, a la
Slingbox or TiVo. I'm reluctant to buy or build any infrastructure
to do this right now tho. The market is changing so much. It's only
a matter of time before the cables loose control and we can get all
the shows over the 'net. heh. I keep looking at that eye-patch
sitting on my desk. :\
FWIW,
- Dan.
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