{"id":120,"date":"2007-02-13T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/upgrading-my-digifusion-fvrt100.php"},"modified":"2007-02-13T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T13:41:00","slug":"upgrading-my-digifusion-fvrt100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/upgrading-my-digifusion-fvrt100.php","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading my DigiFusion FVRT100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/pvr-746392.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/pvr-745161.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>At the end of 2005 my video recorder decided that it really did not want to play back videos and played snowstorms instead. Rather than replace the video I decided to spend a little more and purchase a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fusiondigitec.com\/fvrt100_one.htm\">DigiFusion FVRT100<\/a> form a high street store. This was on offer for \u00a3120 at the time and was one of my better buys. I strongly recommend the dual tuner.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I love the device that fits my lifestyle very well, but at times I wish it could record a little more. I tried replacing the 40GB Maxtor Fireball 3 with a 120MB IBM Deskstar, and it worked a treat.<\/p>\n<p>One down side was the Deskstar is an amazingly loud drive and this one was rather old, so I wanted to replace it with a brand new quieter one. I purchased a new Seagate Barracuda because they are a nice quiet drive. Unfortunately this kept crashing, very frequently, as did the Samsung SpinPoint and Maxtor DiamondMax that I tried.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of research I figured out that this was power related. I also figured out that upgrading the 12V power supply alone was not enough as the 5V supply, regulated within the device, was also at fault. In the end I used an old PC power supply to supply both the main unit and the drive directly. I disagree with the advice of upgrading the 12V adapter alone as I found the system to occasionally crash when doing many things at a time (recording twice and playing for example). Below is a list of the power requirements of the drives I tested, just in case you were interested.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IBM Deskstar (300ma, 500ma)<\/li>\n<li>Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 (670ma, 960ma)<\/li>\n<li>Maxtor Fireball 3 (559ma, 601ma)*<\/li>\n<li>Samsung SpinPoint (700ma, 500ma)<\/li>\n<li>Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (720ma, 350ma)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* The original drive<\/p>\n<p>So now I have a fully working system that I can schedule a couple of weeks of recordings. There are a few other mods that can be made, and ways to retrieve a recording from the drive, but alas not transfer back to the unit. The best place to find everything is <a href=\"http:\/\/digifusion.jeamland.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally a reminder that you can <b>totally destroy your hardware<\/b> by doing things like this so don&#8217;t do it unless you don&#8217;t mind breaking the system and voiding any warranty. Today you can also get a higher capacity PVR costing about the same as a smaller unit and a new drive. If you are wanting to build a more complete and customisable system then perhaps you should consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythtv.org\/\">MythTV<\/a> as demonstrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/revision3.com\/systm\/mythtv\/\">Revision3<\/a>. Do let me know if this was of any help and if you have moded your PVR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 2005 my video recorder decided that it really did not want to play back videos and played snowstorms instead. Rather than replace the video I decided to spend a little more and purchase a DigiFusion FVRT100 form a high street store. 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