Upgrading hard drive and copying hard drive.
Is it possible to upgrade or the hard drive in a 360 box to a larger drive, I'm also wondering if the drive can be taken out and cloned as a backup in case my recordings are lost so that I could repl...
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Terms and Conditions - TV Licensing ™
"Pay TV services, like Sky, Virgin Media and EE TV"
"This includes recording and downloading. On any device."
I guess by specifically stating "Recording... on any device" this includes VCRs, DVD recorders, 8mm tape, Hard Disk, Solid State Disk, USB stick, SD card, HDMI recorder, whatever you like really, as long as it's for your personal use.
What you say is true for Freesat and Freeview with the caveat that the latter's encrypted programmes can only be decrypted by Freeview PVRs. However, this is about VM which encrypts all content and thus you need a VM box to do the decryption.
But Cable TV encryption has been around since 1999. You were still allowed to record whatever you want using the AV output to any recorder of your choice. Recording Sky Sports was no problem in 1989, no problem in 2005, and no problem today.
The law hasn't changed. The rights granted to you through a TV Licence have not changed.
Which is why I say you can still use the video output to any recorder you can like, as stated in the TV Licence. Scart has changed to HDMI. But the TV licence never defined Scart or HDMI, and it still says you can record on ANY device you like, not just the DVR provided by the company.
I believe a person's statutory right to record anything broadcasted in the UK on "any device" for his own use under the terms of the TV licence is not affected by the choice of pay TV provider's choice to use encryption or "locking down" their broadcast.
The TV licence permits you to record onto any device but it does not permit copying onto another device. Why is the Tivo the last STB to have a SCART socket? Answer: the content owners pressured for its removal as it was all too easy to copy SD video to a DVD recorder and possibly pirate it.