[mythtv-users] Supporting schedulesdirect.org

[Kevin Hulse]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:19:41PM -0700, Jon Boehm wrote:
> Tivo's are expandable, at least my series 2 was.  Its not super easy but 
> then again its not really hard either.  There are well published 
> utilities that require removing the drive from the tivo and putting them 
> in a PC to add more drives and expand the data volume.

	A Tivo is expandable like a Mac Plus was. It's possible if you want
to force it. However, it wasn't intended to be done. 

	Thus the requirement to "prepare" the disk before putting it into
a Tivo and doing a full backup of your present configuration. There's a
question regarding whether or not some are upgradeable at all. Even for 
those that are you are highly limited: 1 or 2 internal IDE drives.

	There's a very good reason that weaknees can manage to put a 100%
markup on their ready made Tivo upgrade drives.

	Wanna hack with hardware? Wanna hack with Linux commandline utilities?

	Why not just go all the way?

	I have an S1 with a weaknees drive in it and a lifetime subscription sitting
and collecting dust on the shelf in front of me not 6 feet away from me right now.	

> 
> Jon
> 
> brian wrote:
> > Robert Current wrote:
> >> On 8/7/07, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> >>> Sure, I've had
> >>> downtimes and frustrations, but my family has come accustomed to not
> >>> watching commercials and having TONS of video content at their
> >>> fingertips so we can never go back.
> >> I wish I could say the same for my family.  Uhm, no sarcasm intended,
> >> but can you explain a bit about the "TONS of video content at their
> >> fingertips" that isn't on TiVo?
> > 
> >    I don't (and won't) speak for Brad... but, I'll speak for myself.
> > 
> >    My MythTV combined frontend/backend has 1.5TB of storage, and I can add more any time.
> > 
> >    Where did you buy your 1.5TB Tivo?  Is it expandable?  Can it write to network file stores?
> > 
> >    Okay, then.  I guess that should address your direct question fairly directly.
> > 
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