RSSTiVo Owners Uncover Storage Hack
By the Betanews Staff | Published May 7, 2007, 3:28 PM
Owners of Series3 high-definition TiVos will soon be able to expand the amount of programming they can store on the digital video recorder using an external Serial ATA hard drive. While the SATA ports have been on the TiVo since the beginning, a hack to activate them only surfaced over the weekend.
Hard drives up to 750GB in size have been reported to work with Series3 TiVo, which normally stores only 30 hours of high-definition programming. The feature requires pressing pause and 62 on the TiVo remote. Coincidentally, the code leaked out shortly after CableLabs, which certifies CableCARD devices like the TiVo, changed their policy such that the use of external storage does not affect certification.
This is great! Despite the high price, the TiVo Series 3 is the best HD DVR on the market. Currently satellite and cable companies have nothing better to offer than the TiVo Series 3 DVR.
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Agreed. It's surprising people still buy into their POS PVR service.
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I'm surprised people are even paying for Tivo when there are PVR software for the PC that tromp the Tivo without bearing a monthly service fee... check out SageTV for example.
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This is great news. I just spent $500 on the S3 so I won't be spending another couple hundred for the eSATA drive any time soon. But eventually I probably will.
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Tivo's three customers are thrilled.
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Thank you for your comment, Mr. Ergen.
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ROTFLMAO
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WTFROTFLMAOFTWBBQ11111!!!!
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stop overestimating. you sound like a sony fanboi.
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