It seems to me that when many users get their CubeRevo, the first thing they want to do is to decode scrambled transmissions (for educational purposes only, of course). And there are many posts in many forums to help with this.
The first thing that I wanted to do was be able to make recordings reliably, and then archive the best of them to DVD. Of course this is illegal if you share the DVDs. Believe it or not, it's even illegal if you watch that DVD more than once ! The copyright laws may be be different where you live, but most places the use of a video recorder does NOT permit you to keep that recording indefinitely for repeated viewing. However you can argue that you made the DVD just because you wanted to delay watching that film until long after your HDD would have been full. But also note that the BBC have been very happy to broadcast very old programmes (for which they erased the original tapes) by using recordings that viewers have saved.
O.k., that's the legal disclaimer out of the way !
Now DGStation and ab-com publish manuals that tell as little as possible about the way these boxes actually work. As I learned more and more about making and transferring recordings with my IPBox9000 (thanks to forums like Sat-Universe, and also by just trying things to see what worked) I wrote it down.
Here is the result (so far), "Branta’s guide to Managing Recordings on CubeRevo and IPBox9000".
Probably experienced users will find nothing here that they don't already know, but I hope it will help a few beginners.
Actually I hope that some experienced users will read it, too. That way I might get to learn better ways of doing things, that I can pass on in future revisions of this document.
The first thing that I wanted to do was be able to make recordings reliably, and then archive the best of them to DVD. Of course this is illegal if you share the DVDs. Believe it or not, it's even illegal if you watch that DVD more than once ! The copyright laws may be be different where you live, but most places the use of a video recorder does NOT permit you to keep that recording indefinitely for repeated viewing. However you can argue that you made the DVD just because you wanted to delay watching that film until long after your HDD would have been full. But also note that the BBC have been very happy to broadcast very old programmes (for which they erased the original tapes) by using recordings that viewers have saved.
O.k., that's the legal disclaimer out of the way !
Now DGStation and ab-com publish manuals that tell as little as possible about the way these boxes actually work. As I learned more and more about making and transferring recordings with my IPBox9000 (thanks to forums like Sat-Universe, and also by just trying things to see what worked) I wrote it down.
Here is the result (so far), "Branta’s guide to Managing Recordings on CubeRevo and IPBox9000".
Probably experienced users will find nothing here that they don't already know, but I hope it will help a few beginners.
Actually I hope that some experienced users will read it, too. That way I might get to learn better ways of doing things, that I can pass on in future revisions of this document.