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Broke my directv TOS today
Posted on 8/7/23 at 6:55 pm
Posted on 8/7/23 at 6:55 pm
The HDD in our 10+ y/o directv nvr in our master bedroom has been slowly dying over the last couple of months. Today, before my wife's major surgery tomorrow, it finally gave up the ghost. So I cracked it open and did a hard drive swap (its against the TOS to open their equipment.) Went from 500gb to 1tb. The only snag was Bestbuy didn’t have any 3.5" HDD's in stock. So office depot to the rescue. $45 and we're back in business. It was a pain getting the case open, but my only real concern was getting the drive to format. Plugged it in and it formatted automatically. Fwuw, the box wouldn't even watch regular TV without the Hdd installed.
Tech win for me today.
Tech win for me today.
This post was edited on 8/7/23 at 6:57 pm
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Posted on 8/7/23 at 7:16 pm to Lonnie Utah
Good for you. Is it the same process to pull a hard drive out of one of those s and get a recorded show onto a computer potentially?
Posted on 8/7/23 at 8:02 pm to s14suspense
Maybe someone else can chime in as I have no idea.
Posted on 8/8/23 at 7:54 am to s14suspense
quote:It’s been 20 years or so since I heard anything about the satellite tv hdd’s but …
Is it the same process to pull a hard drive out of one of those s and get a recorded show onto a computer potentially?
Last I heard DTV records in some proprietary format.
Posted on 8/8/23 at 8:05 am to s14suspense
Files are encrypted on the drive. No method to easily decrypt as far as I know.
Posted on 8/8/23 at 9:12 am to ThatBaw
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Files are encrypted on the drive.
Uverse DVR did this as well (albeit haven't used uverse in 10+ years now)
Posted on 8/8/23 at 3:40 pm to ThatBaw
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Files are encrypted on the drive. No method to easily decrypt as far as I know.
Nothing like encryption to help with copy protection.
Reminds me of the time I tried to record Monday Night Football with just ABC’s permission:
Posted on 8/8/23 at 4:32 pm to Lonnie Utah
It doesnt matter. You'll never send the box back to them anyway so there is no way they can ever know.
Posted on 8/8/23 at 6:57 pm to notsince98
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It doesnt matter. You'll never send the box back to them anyway so there is no way they can ever know.
Exactly.
Posted on 8/8/23 at 11:07 pm to s14suspense
I'm pretty sure they store it encrypted so that people can't just pull it off the drive. However, if the crypto keys are stored anywhere locally I am sure it would not be difficult for hackers to crack it. (Like they did the PlayStation). You'd have to be pretty sophisticated but it's doable by Defcon type dudes.
Remember the old days of c-band satellite and how everyone used to pass around "descramble codes"? Yeah people learned how to extract the crypto keys.
Remember the old days of c-band satellite and how everyone used to pass around "descramble codes"? Yeah people learned how to extract the crypto keys.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 2:32 pm to notsince98
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You'll never send the box back to them anyway so there is no way they can ever know.
My dad had to return a HR-24 and Genie DVR recently when he cancelled service
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:51 pm to weadjust
Even if they required it be returned...nobody is taking the time to open that thing or investigate the drive
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:28 pm to Lonnie Utah
I wonder if it'll run a Linux desktop. 
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