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>Hi,
>
>You can retrieve your recorded movies from the Toppy to your PC using an
>USB-connection.
>
>Instead of a PC, I want to connect an Xbox360 and a Toppy with an
>USB-cable (both have an USB connection/plug) and copy (usb, ftp) the
>files directly from the Toppy to the Xbox. Can it be done?
>
>If you can:
>- Do you need any software not included in the Toppy/Xbox?
>- Are there any web sites describing the process?
>- Can you then later copy the files from the XBOX to a XP Media Center
>2005 PC (connected to the XBox with ethernet RJ-45 cable)?
>- anything else I should think of here?
>
>Thanks for your answers, I really appreciate your comments before
>walking into the store and buying both of the boxes (pretty must already
>made up my mind, but just realized I need them to work together - and
>I'm not sure if they do)
>
>Jyri
>
>
>
>Ps.
>Posted to both microsoft.public.xbox and microsoft.public.xbox,
>follow-up set to microsoft.public.xbox

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> never heard of a topfield masterpeice, but you can safely assume that
> you won;t be able to copy stuff over from one to the other. the xbox
> can read compatible media files from external devices, but there is no
> mechanism for copying from one to the other, afaik. it's just not
> built into the xbox OS.

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>
>
> OK - the Toppy is a digital Personal Video Recorder with a hard drive.
> Toppy is capable to communicate with a PC via USB connection, so you can
> download the recorded files to a PC.
>
> More about the Toppy Masterpiece:
> http://www.i-topfield.com/product_e/pr01_01.asp
>
> But, basically you're saying that in Xbox there isn't any MS Explorer type
> of solution to explore the file system of a device connected to the usb
> port of the Xbox, and that it's not possible to install such an
> application to the xbox? (sorry about these "basic" questions, but I'm not
> familiar with xbox yet and I really don't know how close to a PC it
> actually is).
>
> Jyri

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> Well, you can "explore" a connected device via the Xbox 360 menus, however,
> as Chris F. says, I don't believe there's a way to copy the files onto the
> Xbox hard drive. Much less get them off of the Xbox onto a PC at a later
> date.
>

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>Instead of a PC, I want to connect an Xbox360 and a Toppy with an
>USB-cable (both have an USB connection/plug) and copy (usb, ftp) the
>files directly from the Toppy to the Xbox. Can it be done?

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> USB-cable (both have an USB connection/plug) and copy (usb, ftp) the
> files directly from the Toppy to the Xbox. Can it be done?

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>
>I'm not certain, but I doubt it. The Xbox 360 is a very closed system,
>and its media functions are very limited indeed. I don't think you'd be
>able to copy files to it, and even if you could, it's doubtful that the
>360 will play whatever format the Topfield records in (I'm assuming
>MPEG-2 Video Files).
>
>I've never tried it though, so I could well be wrong :-)