TiVo doesn't want it to screw up their warranty service, so they insist that warranty service only comes with original unmodified equipment. But series 2 TiVos don't have anything like a "warranty void if sticker removed" sticker. And TiVo has allowed its engineers to give out technical information. And TiVo doesn't sic its lawyers after third-party sellers who upgrade their boxes and re-sell. The folks at tivocommunity.
I haven't seen a lot of righteous bitching. I think TiVo just wants to restrict certain types of hacking. They don't want people to get around their subscription service. The other thing is that TiVo is engineered to be a consumer device, and so it has a nice quiet low-power approach with a pleasant-looking case and a sexy remote control. Thanks for the info UT; I just naturally assume these days that most consumer electronics companies these days, especially those dealing with digital media, are virulently anti-hacker.
I've heard that if you don't pay for the service, you just have to tell it what times you want your programs recorded at. That's true. Having said that, I'll post again instead of editing. The real value of the TiVo is in its software. If you subscribe, you get the program titles and schedule information, which is what makes the software useful.
TiVo users never have to think about the time of the recording. Installing a PC card involves cracking open the case on your PC. Those averse to the idea of touching circuit boards can also find boxes that connect to a PC's USB port -- a far easier undertaking. Microsoft Corp. You can also buy remote controls that free you to operate your new TV device without clicking on a mouse or punching on a keyboard.
Those software packages serve as your main screen for viewing television and scheduling recordings. The alternative to all of this is to get someone else to build one for you. Update; Trouble was, about the time my box was due to ship, a C Net article ran about those guys and the wheels came off their operation.
That link points to the review on their site. I got a big thumbs up from Marcie. And to top things off, at least for now, I added a CPU cooler. Stage Five — viewing stuff from everywhere. Stage Six — adding another PVR card getting the remote to work was the only hard part. Well, we lasted about 2 weeks before Richard and I ran into a recording conflict I wanted Mythbusters, he wanted South Park — figures, eh?
So I bought a PVR and stuck it in the box. The only tricky thing was that dang remote…. The immediate work-around every time you reboot your box is to;. Not a terrible hassle, but not smooth. I decided to write the little scripts in tools that you can get for free if you want to tag along.
The shell is a. BAT file that runs every time the machine boots I just stuck it in my personal Startup folder. The scripts are written in REBOL — which is a completely nifty, fast, powerful, small-footprint, free scripting language that you can download from here. Write an error message to the activity log and exit. Go ahead and install that now. But only for a minute, and only to test that the PVR is working. Show Comments Sort by oldest first thread view Sort by newest first thread view Sort by oldest first linear view Sort by newest first linear view.
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