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ChadTower:
The Series 1 DirecTivo in my living room ate another hard drive over the weekend... that's the second one (to be fair, over several years).  Rather than drop another one in I started poking around to see what just buying a replacement DirecTivo would cost...

...and ended up picking up a working Series 2 DirecTivo off craigslist for $29 shipped.  Jesus Christ.  For people still willing to hang with standard def for the time being this crap is practically free.

JimmyU:
Let's hope you didn't the lifetime service plan with that TiVO since they're non-transferable between units.

ChadTower:

It doesn't take very long to make the Tivo think it has that plan, which is what I've done with all of mine.  I still pay the service fee to support the company, but if the Tivo thinks it is all set, a DirecTivo doesn't have to call home so you don't need a phone line.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: JimmyU on December 17, 2007, 02:46:03 pm ---Let's hope you didn't the lifetime service plan with that TiVO since they're non-transferable between units.

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Theres companies that'll do it.  I always assumed the serial was hard coded into some chip they swapped.


--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 17, 2007, 02:51:05 pm ---
It doesn't take very long to make the Tivo think it has that plan

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Oh?

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 17, 2007, 04:35:57 pm ---Theres companies that'll do it.  I always assumed the serial was hard coded into some chip they swapped.
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I'm not up on the models in the last couple of years but in the ones I've done it is done via config files and the linux command line.  No physical mods on Series 2 that I can remember, you had to add a custom ethernet card to series 1 but the motherboard edge contact was there for it.




--- Quote ---Oh?

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The Tivo hacking community is as big and mature as the Xbox community but has far less of the kiddie noise that Xbox Scene has.  Using a linux boot disc I bought for $20 I was able to take a used 300gb hard drive last night and fully install linux, the Tivo software, and a whole suite of homebrew software for Tivo, ready to drop right into the Tivo and run... in less than an hour.  Most of that hour was opening up the Tivo and the spare PC.  It's pretty cool what is out there and how easy it is to use.

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