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[HackedOff]

I've had the Tivo for three years, it was acting like the HD was dying so I just opted to buy the Premiere. One of the selling points was that I was able to transfer the tv programs to the new TiVo. I might also mention that I have the external drive, so I can't just take that box and put it onto the new TiVo.

Anyway I hook it all up, old one in the back room connected directly to the wireless router, the new one humming quietly in the front. I do see that I can transfer the files, but.....a whole lotta red circles. I actually did the math, 69.3% of them are copyrighted. I talk to TiVo, they say that it's the provider, I call the provider, they say it's the broadcasters. I'm reading the blogs and I see that my carrier has lots of complaints about this, that they flip that bit by default even on programs that don't have the copyright.

I'm in IT, I take files from dying HDs all the time, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I've never had a system where they lock the files down so much that it's meant to be lost. All I want to do is transfer the files from box to box, and they're making sound as though I'm a criminal for it.

So I see the books and pdf files and all that, sure I can crack the case open and do all sorts of funky stuff. The question I really have is that little ol' external drive, what happens to that? How can I grab the files from that, I don't think it's a USB, I'm guessing that's firewire, not sure.

Well if anyone has suggestions on what I can do on this I would appreciate it.

[stevel]

The external drive connects with eSATA. You can't do anything with the drive by itself, as the contents are encrypted. From what I read, there is not a known way to remove the encryption from programs recorded on a TiVo HD/Series 3. What I don't know is if there's a way to remove the CCI flag from the recordings. You might start reading in the Extraction section of the forum.

And yes, the "content providers" do think you're a criminal if you do anything other than watch the program when it is broadcast. They have been forced to be a bit looser about that, but they're going to make life as difficult for you as they can get away with.

[HackedOff]

Any specific thread title you have in mind? There's about six years of posts to go through.

[Thinkdiff]

You can start here: http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...t=60103&page=3

The last post has a basic "game plan" to getting it working. The old TiVo will need to be hacked though.

Some more reading:
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...ght=remove+CCI