RE: Buying Tivo's My Experience

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Bloody hell, that's the first TiVo death I've heard of!

The HDD upgrade is fairly easy *shudders with thoughts of
Linux...again!* but I managed it so I guess most people will be able to
easily do it. I kept the original drives in the state they came out of
TiVo, just in case.

I now have two 60Gb drives in TiVo which equates to about 40 hours at
the highest quality, more than enough for me and, I suspect, most people
and it was a good trade-off in price to HDD space. As to the comments
about time to access the drives, at this size it is negligible to be
honest; I really do not perceive a great difference, perhaps slightly
slower but not hellish much.

AFAIK, if you restore to earlier software then it does upgrade again
automatically with the daily call, so I wouldn't worry too much about
it.

As yet I haven't delved into the other hacks but I no doubt will in
time.

HTH

K.

> -----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
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> Hi as you may know I got a Tivo, what a bit of kit !
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> Unfortunately yesterday it died :-( white screen of death !
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> 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 !
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> I have no connection with Mr Tonks other than I am a satisfied
customer,
> any one wanting his number again its 01922 615212
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> 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 =A3200.
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> 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.
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> Has anyone on the list applied the hacks ?
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> 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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> John
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