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<DIV><FONT size=2>There are many TiVo hacking communities who do not seem to
have been constrained in the ways suggested.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The XBox situation would seem to also be a useful parallel, no
doubt full of patents etc, however the open source community, not on selling,
seem to overcome such issues, makes me think it might be successfully done
with the TiVos.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><FONT size=2></FONT><BR>Kind regards<BR>David
Hingston <BR><BR><BR></FONT>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=beww@beww.org href="mailto:beww@beww.org">Brian Wood</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mythtv-users@mythtv.org
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">Discussion about mythtv</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mythtv-users] TiVo (S1) as
a MythTV Frontend</DIV>
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<DIV>It's not a question of "skills", it's a question of proprietary
information about patented devices. Those with the knowledge and ability to do
this would still be constrained by NDAs, software patents, copyrights and
other legal problems.</DIV>
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<DIV>In short, it ain't gonna happen, at least not legally.</DIV>
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<DIV>But I'd certainly love to be proved wrong, I have an old series-2 in the
garage :-)</DIV>
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