Motorola Helps You Hack Your Motorola

Peter Rukavina

This helpful, if disclaimer-rich, page on the Motorola website is uncharacteristically open about the option to hack your Motorola DVR and get the video from it to a PC:

...but some people on their own have devised a way to access digital recordings on the DCT6208 or DCT6412 and offload them to a PC hard drive or Digital High Def VCR... Here's how to transfer non-copy protected recordings via IEEE1394/Firewire...

I wish all manufacturers were so open an honest about the hackability of their products. The DCT6412 (or is it the 6408?), by the way, is the DVR that [[Eastlink]] offers here in Prince Edward Island for $14.95/month.
Here's how to do much the same thing with a Mac.

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Submitted by Mark Stanislav on

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Thanks for the link to my post about the Motorola cable box stuff. I have since changed my blog software and the links are different. http://www.uncompiled.com/2005… — that is the direct link to the article. Hopefully this will help your visitors find it easier (as I see them trying to locate it all the time from here). Cheers.

Submitted by bbhank on

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This article does not tell how to download programs recorded on hard drive either by removing drive or firewire/usb. article says this cannot be done.

Submitted by egadgetguy on

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I also cannot find any way to accomplish what you say. So is this bogus? or did Moto* remoe the ability so it would be less open to this?

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