"Upgrade" from a VCR!

Improves the dodgy GUI so it's much prettier and easier to read, stops the annoying automatic scene generation and allow access to the advanced library without scenes, repeated recordings, folders, much faster response time, USB2 connection for transfer to PC + others.

This is what my gui now looks like:

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Here you go mate:

http://www.mousemat.f2s.com/FVRT100/firmwareUpgrade.htm

You will need this also:

http://www.eccleson.org/Syphon/Syphon0.1.20.zip


Then it's really simple, all you do is download your desired hacked GUI I personally think this is the best one: http://www.mousemat.f2s.com/FVRT100/Firmware 0.1.1/craig_16/No Scenes/aquaBlue_run.bin

Rename it too: run.bin

Then take out the HD from the digifusion and chuck it into a PC, fire Syphon up and load the run.bin, then tell syphon to connect to the Digifusion HD and then select: 'Copy File to PVR'. Close Syphon and shutdown. Connect HD back into Digifusion. Job DONE!

HOWEVER: When upgrading too the new FVRT200 firmware you will lose all recordings, either wait until you can empty the library or if your impatient like me you can extract the recordings from the HD onto your computer and watch with VLC or XBMC.
Digifusion Extractor: http://www.hope.co.nz/downloads/fusionvw_098.zip

You can also do this using a serial lead if you don't want too open up the PVR but I'm not sure on the instructions with this method and cannot confirm it works 100% like the method I used.

This site is great for digifusion owners: http://www.jargongeneration.com/FVRT100/index.htm
 
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Definatly get a PVR/DVR over a DVD Recorder, from my experiance DVD Recorders are far too hard to use and just too much hassle. With ours we never bothered to label any discs and you had to fiddle around checking how much space was left on a dics, was the disc finalised etc. If you can store something on a hard drive for ages do you really need to be able to burn it to a DVD? It's a good investment if your upgrading from a VCR, a DVD Recorder is sort of a half-solution and you''l end up wanting a PVR/DVR.
 
C4EVA said:
You can also do this using a serial lead if you don't want too open up the PVR but I'm not sure on the instructions with this method and cannot confirm it works 100% like the method I used.
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Thanks.
I'm quite savvy with serial leads with Starviews and Dreambox's.
 
After using BBC's iPlayer and 4oD I've decided I don't need a PVR. I had a TV card in the PC with media centre anyway.
 
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