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Originally Posted by popper
  your not thinking big enough or inovative enough Tristan, it will never happen on these underpowered/underspeced tvdrives but theres lots of uses for the USB (and even the extreamly slow serial connection, but we will ignore these for now as its used as you say for diagnostics ).
i forget is the tvdrive USB 1.1 or 2.0 ? , it matters due to the speed you can move stuff over the interface, for instance you cant transfer a full TS(transport stream) over the old usb1.1,only part of it at one time.
basicly anything the current 3rd party DVB-T/-S USB cards can do, the stb could also do with that usb slot. |
Of course it would be possible to send the raw MPEG (or even, as you say, the entire transport stream) over a USB2 connection, or Ethernet port. But why would NTL allow such a thing? What's in it for them?
If nothing else, allowing people to make perfect digital copies of HD programmes on their PCs would land them in very hot water with the content providers -- people they want to keep on-side for VOD purposes.
One thing I *could* see happening would be allowing two TVDrives on a home network to share their recording libraries -- so you could watch something upstairs that had been recorded downstairs -- but only if all network traffic could be encrypted an it was all locked down so that it couldn't be intercepted.
It's annoying, but sadly it's a fact. Hollywood is completely paranoid about anybody watching anything they haven't paid for three or four times, and NTL have no choice but to go along with them.
