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Anyone out there who can answer this sight-unseen?
On Saturday, I took my old non-functioning cable box (well, non-functioning; it brought the cable in, but it freaked out and quit working quite a lot, and sometimes even when it was working it haughtily informed me its recording side was unavailable) back to the office and got a new one. And the new one has a USB port in its front. Does this mean I can get stuff off my TV/DVR into my computer? Does it mean I can play things from my computer on the television? Does it, miraculously, mean both? (I see, now that I've found the thing via google, that there's a lot of documentation. So maybe in a few minutes I'll go hunting for the answer myself. :->)
On Saturday, I took my old non-functioning cable box (well, non-functioning; it brought the cable in, but it freaked out and quit working quite a lot, and sometimes even when it was working it haughtily informed me its recording side was unavailable) back to the office and got a new one. And the new one has a USB port in its front. Does this mean I can get stuff off my TV/DVR into my computer? Does it mean I can play things from my computer on the television? Does it, miraculously, mean both? (I see, now that I've found the thing via google, that there's a lot of documentation. So maybe in a few minutes I'll go hunting for the answer myself. :->)
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It also says that it is reserved for future use. Knowing cable companies, it would suprise me if one of the future uses was connecting to an external storage source. Sure, it would make the receiver far more user-friendly and extensible, but this is the cable company we're talking about. Not to mention that it might be difficult for them to prevent you from making an HD recording of a broadcast and creating a perfect HD digital copy of it on DVD (unless the recorder uses a digital>analog converter).
TiVO does allow you to send recorded video to a computer via Wi-Fi, which is a painfully slooooow process. Not sure if this box has that capability.