Unlock hard drive from an old bt vision box: a couple of years ago i cancelled my subscription to bt vision. next you need to download two pieces of software. from my understanding of the bt vision boxes the recordings are not encrypted. you may be able to hot swap the drive from the bt vision box to your pc if you are brave. 0. fony66. I recently subscribed to bt vision and very quickly succumbed to temptation and opened it up. can you transfer recorded programs from the v-box to pc? cjt2323 posts: 2. forum member. and some searching around, i found what seemed to be my recordings made from the tv. i attempted the play the files on the players installed on my computer. Apparently , as suggested by bt, the solution is to reconnect the faulty box, go to bt player and use the reset option. this then removes the good box from the profile and you can watch the recordings on the faulty box..
Use your bt vision box watching it via the dvd recorder (looped through to the tv), find the recordings on btv menu, play as normal, but record the output onto a dvd disk. remember this will be done in real time, so it will take as long as the original broadcast to complete.. Hi guys i always thought i was a technophile but can't seem to find the reset button on the btvision box so that i can get into the engineers menu by pressing the up and down arrows whilst hitting the reset button - anyone help? reset button - btvision box. davenash posts: 3. you don't lose your scheduled recordings because your prefs. When i had my old style vision box, i could record onto my from it onto my dvd player, now i have a youview box, when trying, my dvd player is telling me that copying of material is not allowed, even if i try to record what's on basic live tv. recordings !.....oh **bleep**, it appears bt don't do them anymore.