Recovering Programmes from an Old Tivo Box?

[MrBig]

I have just realised that a couple of programmes I want to watch are on my old Tivo box which is at gathering dust in the lounge. When we moved house for some reason Virgin came and installed a new box, but left the old one (which was functioning perfectly).

I've spend some time searching the net, and all the info I can find seems to relate to recovering from a failed HDD, mine was working fine when disconnected. Virgin don't want to know and apparently the box will not work with my new card.

Is there a way to copy the programmes from the old one or even hook it up to a TV so I can at least watch the recordings before binning it?

Thanks!