Getting Data to my Computer from hard drive

[Beak]

Hello. I am a newbie to satellite and this is my first post.

I am interested in the 9220 HD PVR Plus Bell receiver available here in Canada.

It has a 250 gig hard drive and I would like to be able to get the data to my computer for a bit of editing and then burn to dvd.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible? Any links or hints you could point me to would be greatly appreciated.

It's ok if I have to remove the drive periodically but I am concerned about taking the cover off incorrectly or otherwise disturbing some tamper proofing of any kind.

A uSB 2 dock would be perfect:D

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[woah!]

is there firewire on this STB or not?

if yes is it enabled? if no then no there isnt much you can do to get the stuff of the HD even if you try taking it out the box.

i have a 6412 PIII STB which does have firewire enabled and i can record directly to my PC with it.

but even if you get all this way, if they have turned on 5C protection on the channels, then you wont be able to copy to your HD as its encryted aswell. they are shutting the doors people...

[Beak]

It has USB 2 outputs on the front and back but they are currently disabled.

I guess I will have to get some kind of DVI capture card and record the output of the receiver in real time.

One of these usb ports is supposed to be able to transfer programming to some portable video device like a video ipod but bell canada just has it disabled for now.

Thanks for your reply.....

[woah!]

there is no such card on the market i'm sorry to say. capturing DVI real time needs about 5 gigabits a second, so a 1hr movie would need 18000 gigabytes of HD space....

they dont want you to be able to record any digital content and it is going that way.

[Beak]

:thanks:

Hopefully something will come up.

But if I was designing this device I would just record the data stream and leave it encrypted. This receiver has an embedded chip for decoding rather than a smart card so you can't get at it at all.

They are just gradually taking all the fun out of it.:D