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I have created a wiki at http://wiki.ph-mb.com. This contains technical details of the various sky routers and information about firmware hacking.

Version 1.2.1 is now up, it includes fixes for the downtime toggle bug and graph slow downs. The data is now limited to a resolution of 1000 data points (which is a bit more than the resolution of the graph; with large data sets its was reaching around 150,000 points which caused the javascript library to run a bit slowly!).
Thanks go to Dave-H for supplying his 2 year long database for testing this!

ExPVR is a new application from pH-Mb which allows you to view, and extract recordings from the hard disks of XTV-based personal video recorders, such as Sky+ HD. It has been tested extensively with Sky+ HD (with the latest 'Darwin' firmware) and should work with PVRs containing similar software (e.g. DirecTV, MySky, SkyLife, Yes and Foxtel).

All non-encrypted recordings can be extracted, including non-encrypted Push VOD (Anytime Showcase) items using the user friendly interface.

Currently legacy XTV boxes (without 'Darwin', linux-base firmware updates, e.g the non-HD Sky+) are not supported. These have a completely different planner format and I need to have a partial hard drive image to add support.

You can try a free demo version (limited to extracting ~10 minutes of each recording) on the downloads page. If you like what you see, the full version costs only £7.99 and is available from the purchase page. It is highly recommended that you download the free demo version to check that this application works for you before purchasing.

This new version brings support for the Sagem F@ST 2504 router and many bug fixes. Download it for free from our downloads section.