comcast/motorola DVR and Ethernet port?

Just recently I have had a Motorola DVR box from Comcast installed at
my home. It replaced my older HDTV set top box. With the old cable
box, I had been told the DVI output was not enabled. On the new box I
thought I would try it out. On this box it is enabled and works. Then
I started looking at the other inputs/outputs on this box. There is an
Ethernet port, so what the heck, I tried to hook it into my router, to
see it I could access the hard drive via my PC. Well no luck, so far.
I have not even been able to "see" this device on my network. I guess
that's why I'm posting this. Does anyone out there know how to make
this work? In case this would help, I have a linksys router, and a PC
running Windows XP pro. I'm not even sure what I expect to accomplish
by doing this, but thought perhaps I could watch the files from my PC,
or maybe burn them to DVD for long term storage.

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Randy wrote:

Just recently I have had a Motorola DVR box from Comcast installed at
my home. It replaced my older HDTV set top box. With the old cable
box, I had been told the DVI output was not enabled. On the new box I
thought I would try it out. On this box it is enabled and works. Then
I started looking at the other inputs/outputs on this box. There is an
Ethernet port, so what the heck, I tried to hook it into my router, to
see it I could access the hard drive via my PC. Well no luck, so far.
I have not even been able to "see" this device on my network. I guess
that's why I'm posting this. Does anyone out there know how to make
this work? In case this would help, I have a linksys router, and a PC
running Windows XP pro. I'm not even sure what I expect to accomplish
by doing this, but thought perhaps I could watch the files from my PC,
or maybe burn them to DVD for long term storage.

Thats easy to do with a TiVo if sleeper.iso files are installed.
You might try a different newsgroup for info on an (unidentified)
Motorola DVR.

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Just recently I have had a Motorola DVR box from Comcast installed at
my home. It replaced my older HDTV set top box. With the old cable
box, I had been told the DVI output was not enabled. On the new box I
thought I would try it out. On this box it is enabled and works. Then
I started looking at the other inputs/outputs on this box. There is an
Ethernet port, so what the heck, I tried to hook it into my router, to
see it I could access the hard drive via my PC. Well no luck, so far.
I have not even been able to "see" this device on my network. I guess
that's why I'm posting this. Does anyone out there know how to make
this work? In case this would help, I have a linksys router, and a PC
running Windows XP pro. I'm not even sure what I expect to accomplish
by doing this, but thought perhaps I could watch the files from my PC,
or maybe burn them to DVD for long term storage.

The ethernet port is not enabled yet. It is a DOCSIS port for return
data and for pushing content to the box. It is unlikely that you will
ever be able to "talk" to it via a PC nor will you ever be able to take
content off the HD as this could be a copyright issue. I am sure that
there will be people out there who think that they will be able to do
something with this port but let's face it, no one has and no one will.