Will the Foxsat let me record to USB so I can transfer the files to another Foxsat and watch the programme there?

Similarly for the Passion Plus

Can I move files from the Passion Plus to a Foxsat and vice versa?

You can't play non native video files on a foxsat-hdr. You need to ask a Passion Plus user if it will play back the hdr transmission stream mpeg2 .ts file from a foxsat SD file. HD h264 .ts recorded in freesat mode are encrypted and can't be transferred to usb. You can get at them by directly reading the disc but the encryption stops you doing anything but archive them and put them back on the foxsat hdd for later playback.

Are they encrypted in such a way that another foxsat cant read them?

Any foxsat-hdr will play them back from it's internal HDD if you can get over the transfer problems.

Best way is to remove the internal hdd of both machines and install them in an external e-sata cradle. You can then swap discs with impunity and also access them directly on a pc using the cradles own usb port. Voids your warranty of course.

FYI the Passion + does not have an internal HDD.

The 2 machines were both foxsats if you read the OP. He wanted to transfer files between 2 foxsats

Mind you can't imagine why the OP wants to spend around £600 to do this.
Last edited by grahamlthompson : 08-02-2009 at 11:55

if it were me I would just unplug the box and move that to another room

Opening poster has other housemates(!?) wanting to watch different programmes , but then wish theyd seen the one they hadn't seen and barred from entering opening posters mission control room
(unless with tea and buns)

Opening poster would go for 2xPassion plus if they did red button stuff, or would go for 2x Foxsat if they did USB transfer. Or one of each.

Or wait a few more months

I still think the OP is confused. A foxsat-Hd has a usb port that can only be used for updates. It's not a pvr and not freesat+ compatible which I pointed out in a similar thread.
It costs around £150.00. The £300 pound Foxsat-hdr (which is a twin tuner freesat+ pvr) has a 320Gb internal HDD, programmes recorded on this can be copied to usb but not recorded directly there. Once on usb any foxsat-hdr will play these back directly from the usb device. It seems likely that the OP thinks that a Passion+ and a Foxsat-HD have similar capabilities, they don't the Passion+ is pvr ready.

OP had thought the Passion+ would record HD to USB flash drive?

The foxsat hdr - is that HD or just SD?

Twin tuner HD. HDR - High Definition Recorder
Last edited by grahamlthompson : 08-02-2009 at 12:23

ah - so I was in the right thread before after all

I thought from that thread that HD meand high definition and hdr meant hard drive recorder.

The passion+ is not a freesat+ device. It's not a freesat device at all. It's a generic free to air single tuner high definition stb that can record to an external usb mass storage device. It can I believe display the freesat epg and tune ITV HD but does not have series or accurate recording, a prerequisite of freesat+ capability