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Hi all,

A newby question which may sound daft to afficionados, but, if we have zillions of standards for interconnectability of just about everything else, why is it not possible to simply access my Virgin stb's EPG fom my dvdr and use it to set the recorders timer?

You may appreciate the background, that I have been making very good use of the posts in this and the AV forum (which seems to have a near identical 'front end') in order to try to understand how best to set a new HDD/DVDR, and get it to receive Guideplus info.

Thanks to this advice, I now have the Guideplus selection of channels loaded into the DVDR, but of course, would have liked to be able to simply 'tap off' the ones already in the stb. Why is what would seem to be a simple file transfer and update exercise that would be nothing to a pc made impossible to do on a new piece of equipment with a much bigger hard drive?

Is this just bloodymindedness on the part of the 'AV industry' or what?

Anyhow,

Thanks for a very excellent forum: one which ought to be available at the click of a remote while watching!

Cheers,

Spamlet