First question:

Is there a way to reassigned the Spot Video output on the HYBDVR-FE016480-DH160?  I have 15 analog cameras and 1 IP camera.  I have reassigned channel 16 to be digital so it appears in the 16 camera view.  My analog cameras all loop out to channel adjustable modulators so I can see them on a UHF cable network I created to see the cameras on TVs around the house.  Since the IP camera doesn't have an analog input, I can't feed a signal to a modulator so it can have it's own UHF channel.  If there was a way to reassign the Spot Video output from channel 1 to channel 16, it would give me an analog feed.  I think I read in the manual that the Spot Video is associated with an alarm activation, but I don't know if it's possible to make it stay on all the time from an alarm setting.

Second question:

I know this is a discontinued product, but was there ever a firmware update available for this DVR?  I bought it in June 2015.