[clug] Cheap TiVos?

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Jan 23 00:13:19 GMT 2004


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:50:40AM +1100, Peter Barker wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Darren Freeman wrote:
> 
> > I just got three takers in the space of half an hour!
> 
> OTOH,
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3072804133&category=298

However I'm guessing the reconditioned units we're talking about here
are the earlier models, known to be hackable for Australia.

> If people are getting these things in from the states - is someone willing
> to hold a "soldering-iron-and-desoldering-braid" session at which people
> can be led through destroying their TiVo with clumsy hardware work?
> 
> Oh, not to mention "destroy your TiVo's software setup by installing
> Linux" :)

Well, they're already running Linux...

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