Re: Extra info - dslreports.com

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maartena Stacked. Premium join:2002-05-10 Orange, CA ·RoadRunner Cable	reply to Vchat20 Re: Extra info said by Vchat20 : Well, just got the Explorer 8000 topday. havent even had it for 2 hours yet. and it is brand new. was still in the box when the guy installed it. now my question is, can a second Hard Drive be put in or atleast have a new one with more space? No. The Harddisk contains the operating system and you can't replace it with an empty disk. As far as I know you are able to connect a second disk - at least I have heard rumours that the FireWire port on the back will be used to connect an extra external harddrive for more space. But since the firewire port is still disabled, it may be a while before that is possible. They are probably afraid that you would be able to connect it to a computer afterward, and run some program that cracks through the encryption (the format on the disk is encrypted) to move shows to DVD. I think that if you can buy a DVD recorder, you should be able to do it like that as well. A lot of series that one can download from the Net have been recorded on DVD at broadcast, and then transfered to a PC by simply putting the DVD disc in the computer and edit it. So I do not see the problem of moving shows to the computer and keep permanent copies of it. For own use of course. -- »www.deanforamerica.com - You have the power to make a change! Support Howard Dean 2004
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davedo2 @ctc.com	You can grab the video output to whatever you want post box. It comes out as straight data. It's only encrypted on the way in, and stored on the box. The fact taht you can watch the digital video on a regular tv means that you can rip it to whatever you want off the coax out. get a video converter and rip it to DivX -- fit an entire season of the simpsons on a single cdrom. Just think of it this way: you can also rip any audio files you want no matter what kind of DRM or encryption that have -- just plug the line in of another computer into the line out or headphone jack on the player. Not rocket science. That's why it's a joke that companies are going to all this trouble with DRM. The fact that you can hear or see the output means that you can capture it somewhere. Last time I checked people can't process encryypted signals.
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