Today we got our new HD cable box/DVR thing from Comcast, and I’ve been fiddling with it. Using some Apple developer tools, I am able to record full-resolution high-definition video off of my cable box onto my Mac laptop over a FireWire connection…at 80MB/minute. How cool is that?

(Hint: very. Very cool.)

Soon enough the content providers and cable companies will start locking things down and prohibiting this kind of behavior, which of course won’t stop the pirates but will stop interested hobbyists like myself. As it should be, right?