Maxtor is crippling their new external hard drives for DVRs

We found a few more details on the QuickView Expander, that new line of external hard drives for digital video recorders from Maxtor that we
mentioned yesterday. Their press release was rather cryptic about what exactly the deal is with the drives, but turns out they won't actually be sold directly to consumers, you'll only be able to get them from your cable company (which presumably rents you the set top box with the DVR in it in the first place), and will definitely not be able to hook up to a PC to copy all the TV shows you've recorded onto it.