Originally Posted by Sarge75

Hi folks, i cancelled my virgin tv about 6 months ago due to losing my job.
I still have the 500gb tivo box in the loft despite several attempts to get virgin to take it back.

Ive now found a guy selling bush freeview recorders on ebay for £20 they just need a hard drive installing, i miss not being able to record TV, and as virgin dont seem to want their box back i thought i might take out the tivo hdd and use it in this.

What i wanted to ask is does anybody know if the tivo hdd contains any type of encryption or will i just beable to format it in the bush recorder?

Moneys still tight so would rather not just blow £20. Any advice would be greatly appreiciated, thanks.