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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
According to a VM technical guy, VM are working on the possibility of allowing us to transfer our recordings across after a box swap. The stumbling block seems to be copyright etc as opposed to technical ability.
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For STBs with hard drives, it's neither technically nor legally possible.
Ignoring the legal aspects, think about the technicalities...
1) It would take many hours to copy 1TB of data. The technician isn't going to wait around for that to happen.
2) There is no sensible way to connect a second hard drive to a STB to do the copy. So you'd need a special disc copying machine to do it.
3) By far the most common hardware fault in STBs is hard drive failure, so in most cases you wouldn't be able to read the data from the old box in the first place.
On the other hand, if network PVR is ever permitted, your recordings would be held completely separate from the STB, so it's entirely plausible that they'd be maintained over a box swap. And in not having a HDD, the box would be far less likely to fail in the first place.