Hi,

I am moving house and I currently have a Foxsat HDR. The new house does not have a sat dish and I am thinking of changing to a HDR FoxT2 using Freeview. I would then sell the Foxsat unit.

My question is :
Can I connect the two units and copy my recordiings from the Foxsat onto the FoxT2 before I sell it on?

Thanks in advance.

No.

Like the majority of such boxes the Fox T2 cannot record from anything other than it's built in tuners. I would also think it unlikely you could copy the files over from one drive to the other.

It may be possible to copy the files from the Foxsat drive to a computer and convert them into a different format. The Fox T2 has the ability to stream video from a PC if you set it up correctly so that may be an option if you can find some software to convert the Foxsat files. I don't know of any myself though.

No you can't - the file-formats are quite different. The PVRs are also set up to replay only on the native recorder for copyright agreement reasons. You can copy up to the Net & download but this is slow & quickly uses up any Broadband usage limits.

A practical solution is to copy your FreeSat files to HDD, buy a cheap media player like ViewSonic VMP 73 (which will play almost anything very well indeed including both Humax FreeSat & FreeView files) direct to your TV - was about £50 from Maplin. Then buy a Humax HDR Fox T2 (freeview) from Humax Direct "2nds" at reduced price.
The media player also gives you a cheap replay-only for a second TV.

SD files are fully transferrable to Media Players. For HD files, look on here or Google for how to make "locked" HD files transferrable using a PC & Free software called Foxy.

SD recordings the answer is yes, you can copy them to a usb drive (or ftp direct to a PC with the modified firmware). You can then use AV2HDR-T2 to create the support files required for full navigation and upload them onto the HDR(HD) FOX T2.

Unless you manually recorded HD using non-freesat mode these will be encrypted with a key unique to your Foxsat-hdr so only this specific box will play them back.

Foxy only works on a HDR FOX T2 you can't decrypt HD recordings made on a Foxsat-hdr.

I have succesfully copied files from my Foxsat HDR to my HD Fox T2 via the PC.

Don't know if it's different for the HDR, but the HD Fox T2 doesn't require the .hmt or .mts files from the Foxsat recordings, just the .ts video file.

If you provide them you get the same chapter thumbnails and navigation options as a recording made on the box.

A Foxsat-hdr needs them to play anything.

Foxsat needs them but the Fox T2 wouldn't see the file when I had them included. (I think it creates it's own)

I deleted everything bar the .ts file and it worked fine after that.

Not sure if it was both files the T2 didn't like or just one of them though.

You need to use AV2HDR-T2 to create all 3 of them from the .ts from the Foxsat. The format isn't the same as the Foxsat.