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Sometimes you have to be careful when you extend the capabilities of a device or program: The manufacturer might strike back. That happened recently to owners of Slingbox, a place-shifting device that enables remote viewing of live and prerecorded television via the Internet. In early July, without warning, the company suddenly started encrypting video streams as they passed through the Internet. That rendered a clever hack—the At-Large Recorder from Applian Technologies—useless.
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However, a firmware upgrade to the Slingbox hardware was required to encrypt streams, leaving an out for At-Large customers: Don't upgrade the firmware, and your Applian software will still work. The At-Large Recorder itself is a deceptively simple hack. It records the audio and video delivered via the Sling software for a predetermined amount of time, saving it as a Windows Media Video (WMV) file on your hard drive. It can also schedule a recording, letting you record a show while you're asleep or at work, and will shut the Sling player software down when recording is complete. It can change the TV or DVR channel via the Slingbox, which makes it easier to schedule recordings.
If you've already upgraded your Slingbox to firmware version 1.0.86 (which added stream encryption) or later, there's a hack. You can downgrade to an older firmware version by loading an older version of the Slingplayer software. The At-Large Recorder costs $29.95 direct (www.applian.com). You can try before you buy, to make sure it works for you.
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The developers at Slingme.net claim to be developing an open-source Slingbox recorder, along with other hacks, but nothing was available at press time.—next: A Digital Camera >