Infrasonic wrote:16brae wrote:
Yes. I thought there would be something available that would break any encryption and let me download the files to my PC to view. Without any problems.
The only way decent encryption generally gets broken is if there is some flaw in the math or someone has been sloppy with the official decryption key side of things
There were a couple of strong reasons that I went with a Humax box for my last HD Freeview recorder.
One was that you can FTP straight into the box hard-drive over your home network, gaining access to the recorded files via a file-explorer window without any hassle of digging hard-drives out.
The other was the existence of a PC file-utility called 'Foxy', which changes the 'Encrypted' flag on any relevant in-box HD recordings, which then enables me to use the Humax box to transfer any HD in-box recording to a USB stick via it's USB port, which would normally only be possible with SD recordings...
It isn't so much 'cracking' the HD encryption, but simply convincing the box itself that HD recordings were SD recordings, and so conning the box into carrying out the conversion to the USB drive when it normally wouldn't...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess