Hmmm

[TomV]

I'm wondering why the recording service finds itself connected to a remote machine at times, when I am not say updating or anything of the sort. Any knowledge?

[HtV]

How did you notice?
Any plugins that could be responsible for that? weather-plugin e.g.
I think it also connects to the localhost all the time/often.

[sub]

It doesnt connect out to the internet, unless you configure it to use zap2it or bleb and it goes retrieve it's EPG information. It does use TCP/IP to communicate between gbpvr.exe and gbpvrrecordingservice.exe, but this is only communication on the local machine. gbpvrrecordingservice.exe acts as a server in this communication, so listens for incoming requests.

Other things that can cause connections from other machines are enabling the builtin web server, or running MVP servers.

You may also have installed one of the plugins which does connect out to the internet (weather, theater listings, and a few others that retrieve show information).