[Cialug] OT: Tivo

[Tony Bibbs]

Ah, right you are. I can't just drop the drives in a new unit and recover my recordings.  I talked to a guy at weaknees and he is 90% sure it's hard drive failure anyway.  One way to find out quickly is to simply put another drive with a newly formated OS6.2 and see if it boots.  I guess the first thing todo is verify one of the drives died and if so I'll be in the market for a big IDE drive.

--Tony

----- Original Message ----
From: Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:23:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: Tivo

I would ask them to ensure you can put your hard drives into their unit.  The reason I say that is I read on the Tivo Community forums that the recordings are married to a serial number in the unit.  That is, you won't be able to watch your already recorded programs on another Tivo that you put the drive(s) into.


Here's some other sites that might interest you as a Tivo owner:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb
The Tivo Community forums.  Lots of good info here, no extraction/stealing service talk.  There are some Tivo personnel that visit the site.


http://www.9thtee.com/tivo-dt2.htm
Features InstantCake, a way to upgrade your DirecTivo to the latest Tivo software.  DirecTV uses an older version of the software.  I've not performed this upgrade myself, although I have considered it.  It would give you (among other things) the ability to watch a show on one Tivo that was recorded on another, through a network connection.


http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum
Another set of forums.  They'll talk about stuff Tivo Community won't (like video extraction).



On 6/26/07, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
Interesting site.  I see they offer the same model as my broken unit (Hughes HDVR2) minus the hard drives so tonight I'll try mounting the drives to ensure they work and, if so, I can buy just that and save a mint.


Thanks,

--Tony

----- Original Message ----
From: Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <
cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 7:18:45 PM
Subject: RE: [Cialug] OT: Tivo

Have a look at http://www.weaknees.com
You might be able to find something there.

-dh

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Tony Bibbs

Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 2:39 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] OT: Tivo

That last storm killed my wifes Tivo unit.  She insists on Tivo so I guess
I'll be picking one up here in the next day or two.  We had a Hughes Series

2 Tivo that was pretty solid but I'd be interested to know what some of you
might recommend.  No, we aren't on HD (yet).

--Tony


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