10-250 without DirecTV?

[broncofa]

I recently switched to Dish, and have a 750G 10-250 just sitting on my mantle (being used as a HD player for the movies I loaded it with before the change). I was thinking, I could use it forever like that, especially if I could record new things from the OTA tuners, or even from my Blue-Ray. Anyone have any ideas how I get past the "attempting to aquire sat signal?" and just use it like a tuner?

[T1V0]

...and have a 750G 10-250 just sitting on my mantle (being used as a HD player for the movies I loaded it with before the change).

that's all it's good for unless you develop a new hack. if there is a hack for it, or if you come up with one, this isn't the place to discuss it.

[broncofa]

that's all it's good for unless you develop a new hack. if there is a hack for it, or if you come up with one, this isn't the place to discuss it.

I'm not talking about stealing service, or extracting videos. I would like to put movies (or preferrably TV) on the Tivo. Maybe even like to convert it to a stand alone (and subscribe), if possible. I would assume I would have to subscribe to have any sort of guide. It just seems like to waste almost a TB of space is ludacrus.

[classicsat]

You need to subscribe to enable any recording features, and the only company offering subscriptions to that unit is DirecTV.

I don't know about transferring recordings to it over the network.

[whitepelican]

You could hack it, put it on a network and load movies onto it using Movieloader or mfs_ftp. You might want to check out the Insertion/Extraction forum over at DDB for more ideas.