Is it THEIR equipment?
Sky's isn't.
YES. And so is sky's if it's sky Q.
Is it THEIR equipment?
Sky's isn't.
Maybe, there's no real harm in trying as long as you can put it back together without it looking like you've tampered with it.It's a Samsung.Could just be the contacts on the rear switch or the switch itself. Is it a Samsung or another make?
With two main boards inside, I'm wondering whether what looks like the Power Board could be sourced from elsewhere and swapped into my unit.
then why the hell dont you? So what if you loose your recordings? What if the hard drive failed? You should have backed them up if tyey were so important. Have you tried pulling the hard drive and connecting it to a pc? I strongly suspect the recordings are in mpeg format, though may be encoded - you could try putting them back onto the hdd in the new box? I also strongly suspect that opening or altering vm's kit is forbidden in their ts and cs.It's over there on the AV forum but so far the only reply has been "Just get VM out"May be worth asking the mods to transfer this to the AV forum. They may have more in depth knowledge about this over there.
Virgin are unlikely to do anything other than swap the box for a new one.
Why would they bother employing trained menders?
If they take away the box, you will never again see what was on it.
If it has a hard drive inside, that's they thing you want to get your hands on. If you can't copy it yourself (it may have standard connectors) consider taking it to a local PC mender and asking them to copy it to a new drive; or even onto DVDs (which is worth doing with your treasured photos and recordings) or a memory stick
I suspect the VM hard drive is a) in a proprietary format b) the recordings will be encoded and potentially c) encoded to the specific motherboard of the recorder, so may not be as simple as just sticking the hard drive in another device.
Worth a try if you can locate one cheap enough (eBay?)
Will a PC mender be willing to deal withJamieH said:I've got the HD out but the drive is formatted to a system foreign to Windows.
Your PC mender suggestion is an excellent one - thanks.
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