Comments on: Bell PVR External Hard Drive – Can I Copy the Files to a Computer?

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:44:41 +0000

Hey Chris, how were you able to get the TSP file to play?? (once you extract the file to your HD)

thanks

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:22:37 +0000

Unfortunately, absolutely not. The hard drive gets married to the receiver you have originally recorded the files with, so to speak.
The second you plug the drive into another receiver, it will tell you you need to format the drive to that receiver, thus losing all your saved stuff. So, the drive is only good for the receiver it has been working with.

By: Barry Wheeler

Barry Wheeler — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:45:17 +0000

Taj, that is a great question. I’m not sure of the answer. Anyone care to chime in and answer this?

By: Barry Wheeler

Barry Wheeler — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:43:47 +0000

Great tip Tom! Thanks for sharing.

By: Taj

Taj — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:38:39 +0000

So seing how it wont work on a computer to playback shows/movies. Would it be playable throught an unsubscribed bel reciver say at a camp or camper

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:31:30 +0000

I realise the previous problems with formatting the drives for Windows use again and the detection problems have most likely been sorted because of the age of the posts, but I just wanted to point you guys/gals to a great little Freeware application called SwissKnife.
It instantly detects the PVR formatted USB drive and Bob’s your uncle.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/SwissKnife.shtml

By: Prasn

Prasn — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:14:13 +0000

I need help extracting files from 6131 HD Receiver with an External HD attached.I dont want to loose the contents on the HD but the reciever is having trouble reding the HD and wants to format it torestart using it. Any help on this please
Thanks

By: Don

Don — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:49:11 +0000

Hey Guys and Gals,
I took the easiest way for accomplishing this. I bought a DVD recorder, hooked it up to my receiver, hit play and record and voila! PPV content on a DVD that is playable anywhere.

By: Barry Wheeler

Barry Wheeler — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:29:46 +0000

Pamela,

You can see the files, but you won’t be able to watch and/or view them from what I’ve seen. They are typically encrypted files.

Barry

By: Pamela Laing

Pamela Laing — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:14:40 +0000

Maybe I am misreading this, but it sounds like if I had a Linux partition and opened the files in it, it would work? Or am I missing a step?