[moonmonkey]

I have a Bush DFTA45R set top box which can record to an attached USB drive.
I have a mac mini (HFS+) I want to automatically get the shows on to.

Questions:
a) could I theoreticaly plug the Set top box directly into the mac mini and record to a windows partition on the mac mini?

b) failing this could I connect a hard disk which is also connected to the mac mini- I will write a script to pull the shows off.

c) any other ideas (I don't want to buy a new set top box or an eyeTV - we like watching live TV on a set top box, not a computer - but want to record shows to the computer).

Cheers!

[Waragainstsleep]

I'm not aware of any way to attach one USB drive to two computers at the same time. You'd need to rig something that could switch the USB connection from the set top box to the Mac and back again at the whim of the Mac. You could do this with an Arduino rig maybe but you'd need to get your hands dirty.

[SSharon]

How expensive is the set top box? My quick search showed me this thread and some ebay page for $30. Then you could have one connected to the TV and one connected to the Mac Mini.