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RE: Buying Tivo's My Experience
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- Subject: RE: Buying Tivo's My Experience
- From: "Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:44:45 -0000
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I
agree I will be upgrading the disk, the hack instructions look fairly
streightforward, but I am going to get a spare disk and keep it as a clone.
I am
waithing to get it upgraded before I start because I am worried that if
tivo
upgrade and i then have to revert back will they do the upgrade again
?
John
The
only problem with this is that you invalidate your warranty once you open
it.
Not
a problem for me and I will be hacking away like a good un I just think
people
should be aware.
But
it isn't like invalidating the warranty on your PC, the Tivos have a
address
chip inside which is linked to the subscription for each machine. So if you
pay the £200 lifetime subsciption and then blow up your Tivo you have lost
£400.
Best
advice I have heard is to go on the monthly subscription...hack the hell
out
of it and then once you are sure it is stable switch to the lifetime
subscription.
I
must admit I already feel the need for a larger drive after 3
days!
Mick
TiVo is just about
'hack
heaven' you can: - Add a larger and/or
second hard disk (max 274GB) - Add a
network card - Add more
memory - Run a small webserver on it and
control it from your PC - Use the numerous
backdoors via the RC - ....
Roger
Shingler
-----Original Message----- From: Don McAllister
[mailto:donmc@xxxxxxx] Sent: 01 March 2002 10:16 To:
ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] Buying Tivo's My
Experience
And what hacks might these be then John?
Don
(another Tivo newbie)
> -----Original Message----- > From:
Dr John Tankard [mailto:john@xxxxxxx] > Sent: 01 March 2002
09:58 > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: [ukha_d] Buying
Tivo's My Experience > > Hi as you may know I got a Tivo, what
a
bit of kit ! > > Unfortunately yesterday it died :-( white
screen of death ! > > I have to say I was I bit worried as I
have purchased it mail order from > Mr Tonks who I have never
dealt
with before, however I called yesterday > late afternoon, and I
have a replacement this morning, he did not > require by box back to
check that it was dead. Now that is what I call a > customer
service ! > > I have no connection with Mr Tonks other than I
am
a satisfied customer, > any one wanting his number again its 01922
615212 > > Now I have just got to decide if I apply the hacks,
much of the notes > recommend that you back up your tivo before you
switch it on to make the > image file small enough to fit on a CD,
but since I have had on dead > unit I am thinking of waiting for a
couple of months to be sure its ok > before invalidating the
warrantee. I am just relived that I did not read > up on the
hacking before I got my unit, because I would have hacked it >
straight away and could have been out of pocket to the tune of
£200. > > When I hack it I am not going to bother with the CD
route, I will get a > spare drive and use the tools to clone
it. > > Has anyone on the list applied the hacks
? > > Does anyone know what happens if you apply the hack, get
the software > upgrade and then at a later date have to revert to the
backup, will tivo > download a new upgrade ? > >
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