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Recording Off Shaw's Digital Cable Terminal

I don't know why I didn't see this sooner, but apparently you can record directly off of some of Shaw's new digital cable terminals right to your computer with a simple firewire cable. No need for an expensive tuner capture card. This site lists how to do it for Macs but I'm sure something similair could be worked out for PC users out there.

I heard about this from a Unix guy on campus who bought an iBook to try out 'The Mac Side' and seems to be enjoying it:

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I connected my Shaw Digital STB to my Mac iBook. I then downloaded Firewire SDK 19 from apple.com. Voila, I can now record TV onto the mac. Works great. It captures the TV into mpeg-2 Transport files (.m2t) A program called VLC is used to play these files on the mac. You can record and play High Def. They say that it only works for Digital channels - but they were using the previous Shaw PVR - Motorola 6208. I have the newest one - Motorola 6412 -and it appears to transmit analog channels down the FireWire just fine.

My space consumption estimates on the Mac side:

Digital SD - 1.5 GB /hour
Analog SD - 3.0 GB /hour
Digital HD - 9.0 GB /hour

Now I am looking for a way to convert the .m2t files for DVD burning.
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