[clug] Cheap TiVos?

[Patrick Cole]

Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:16:39PM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> How is going? I received a bounce message when I tried <dfreeman at ieee.org>.
> Any details on how to arrange shipping and payment and such?
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:03:27AM +1100, Darren Freeman wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > The BBQ was great, if you didn't come then you missed out big time.
> > Thanks Tridge!
> > 
> > Mainly you would have missed out on seeing Tridge's TiVo. It turns out
> > we can get one of our very own, reconditioned from the US, minus hard
> > disc, for AU$160. We need an order of 6. I don't know the full details,
> > but I suppose the guilty person will reply with them. The US model will
> > require some hardware mods in order to replace the NTSC tuner with PAL,
> > however if you let the TiVo control your VCR instead you won't have to
> > do that. The composite input/output is PAL/NTSC.
> > 
> > I'm not definitely putting up my hand but I'm considering it. Counting
> > myself I think we have four interested people.

I'd be interested too.