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Originally Posted by spiderplant
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.
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It doesn't take m'many hours' to copy 1Tb of data - I have done it with upgraded Sky+ boxes using 3rd part software written for the purpose.
What is wrong with connecting via USB port to a USB drive, would only need port to be enabled and software to download it.
In fact the best situation would be to have an external Bix with multiple drives, and an option to copy recordings from STB drive to external drive for storage, retrieving them to STB box when viewing required. (A bit like delete/undelete). The copy to the external drive could be queued up to work overnight.