Comcast (Motorola DCT6412) Retrieving Programs

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I hope I'm not asking in the wrong newsgroup forum. But is there a
way to retrieve the recorded programs off the Motorola DCT6412 and
copy them to my computer? I just got my DVR box today, so I'm a
little exicted. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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"Walter White" <wsquaredREMOVE-CAPS@gte.net> wrote in message
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> "hackMonkeySPY" <hackmonkeyspy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> I hope I'm not asking in the wrong newsgroup forum. But is there a
>> way to retrieve the recorded programs off the Motorola DCT6412 and
>> copy them to my computer? I just got my DVR box today, so I'm a
>> little exicted. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You probably won't be able to move programs from the DCT-6412 to your
> computer or to a digital VCR. There are still issues with the
> copy-protections flags on cable boxes that have hard drives. It may
> depend
> on your cable company. The hardware must be capable AND the cable company
> must enable it.
>
> I talked to my own cable company last week about this issue (Adelphia in
> Southern California) and the IEEE 1394 interfaces on the DCT-6412 boxes in
> my area are NOT enabled. (Keep in mind that 25% of the answers you get
> from
> a satellite/cable company CSR are usually wrong. </sarcasm> )
>
> On the other hand, the IEEE 1394 interfaces on the DCT-6200 boxes (the
> non-DVR ones) ARE enabled in my area. I've been using this box to
> time-shift high-def shows using my JVC digital VCR. No reason why it
> shouldn't work going to a computer either (which can emulate a JVC VCR if
> you are running Windows XP).
>
> So your choice appears to be: time-shift with a DVR box, or time-shift
> with
> a VCR and a non-DVR box.
>
> YMMV.
>
> W²

I had it working for awhile with my PC and the 6408 with Comcast.
Then, the copy protection issues started, could only record certain stuff.

Huge thread about it here:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/sho [...] did=403695

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On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:51:04 -0800, jaimesbeam wrote:

>
> hackMonkeySPY wrote:
>> I hope I'm not asking in the wrong newsgroup forum. But is there a
>> way to retrieve the recorded programs off the Motorola DCT6412 and
>> copy them to my computer? I just got my DVR box today, so I'm a
>> little exicted. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Any Ideas on how to use the Motorola's Ethernet interface to share
> video???
>
> Mine seems to be disabled by Adelphia!!!!
>
> Thanks, Jim.

Does anyone have an idea what IP address it's using? It doesn't seem to
respond to pings on the address that my DHCP server would assign it
(192.168.1.101).

On a separate topic. How much storage space does your unit have. I just
got the Motorola/Comcast dual tuner HD DVR box. I was under the impression
that the dual tuner version had a larger disk but mine can only store 10
hours of HD which by my calculation is probably a 120G disk which is
pretty small.