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30 Second Skip ReplayTV offered the consumer friendly feature, which probably contributed to their court woes and ultimate demise. Fortunately, TiVo provides a “secret” (shh, don’t tell) code for enabling a 30 second skip. Press the - button 4-5 times to quickly bypass most commercial interludes. It’s not quite as cool as Replay’s feature, but hey TiVo is still selling hardware.
TiVo Platforms:. Series1, Series2, Series3/HD, DirecTV Directions:. Play a TiVo recording. On your remote hit Select, Play, Select, 3, 0, Select. Live life commercial free 2. Expand Storage One of the easiest ways to increase the value of your TiVo is to enlarge your recording capacity by upgrading your internal hard drive with something a bit more roomy. You could, but most folks will be most comfortable buying a prepped drive.
You won’t find any bargains, but you’ll save yourself some time and energy. TiVo Platforms:. Series1, Series2, Series3/HD, DirecTV Directions:.
Find your TiVo model, select your capacity, enter your credit card info. Record every episode of Stargate and Stargate Atlantis 3. Transfer Video To TiVo TiVo hasn’t done a great job of publicizing this feature, but for at least a year and a half they’ve supported moving video from a home computer onto your TiVo for playback. This may require a little more elbow grease than the first two hacks, but if you’d like to store and view your home movies and ripped DVDs on your TiVo it’s worth the effort. For a newly introduced and friendlier process (at a cost), check out. TiVo Platforms:.
Series2, Series3/HD Easy Directions for PC:. Download 2.6 and purchase the Plus Key ($25).
Transcode and transfer WMV, QuickTime, and MPEG 2/4 video Powerful Directions for PC:. Download (free) or. Download (free). Do your homework and Mac owners:. Learn to 4.
Remove TiVoToGo DRM In early 2005 TiVo introduced TiVoToGo, a nifty feature to transfer recorded shows off the TiVo and onto your computer. Unfortunately that video in encumbered with DRM, limiting playback and transfer options.
Fortunately, some clever folks have solved that problem. TiVo Platforms:. Series2, Series3/HD Directions for PC:.
Transfer shows using TiVo Desktop. Download. Free your recordings Directions for Mac:. Download.
Transfer and free your recordings 5. Stream Music TiVo Desktop, both Mac and PC versions, allow you to stream MP3s from to your TiVo. That’s a good start, but what about folks with AAC, WMA, and OGG Vorbis files? While this hack won’t let you play protected content (like iTunes purchases), it will handle just about everything else you might want to throw at it. TiVo Platforms:. Series2, Series3/HD Directions for PC:. Download TiVo Desktop.
Publish your music. Rock on. If you are expanding your storage on a Series1 unit, you can also network it with a TurboNet card, or network AND speed it up with a CacheCard.
Networking it means eliminating the need for a telephone line for that daily call, and even accessing the unit via the Web for scheduling. You can also do this with almost all of the Series2 DirecTV TiVo units, even the HDTV one.
Also, for the non-hackers using TiVoToGo, check out VideoRedo which you can use to edit your videos. It even includes a feature which automatically detects and marks commercials. Kenny, While you are correct, I think most Tivoers will get the wrong impression. Those are instructions to watch regular TV while Tivo is recording.
I would have thought that kind of setup would be obvious, but maybe not. The “live-tv” you would watch in that case will not provide any of the features Tivoers love like searching the guide and going to the channel with one button, pause, FF, and RW. This is one of the reasons I love MythTV.
I can add as many tuner cards as I want, record different channels at the same time as watching live TV with all the usual Tivo type features, limited only by the number of tuners I have in my Myth box. Tivo Series 2 80HR ST (160-0211) only $9.97 at Radio Shack!!!
A cheap way for all to grab abother box or spare box to “play with”:)) Only your RS clerk as of 3/2/08 will now have to ring up the Tivo unit as “Other Store Income” as their POS will not allow sales of NTSC / analog tuners after 3/1/08. Just try suggesting to your befuttled RS clerk that he sell you this for the last know price of $9.97 or say $10 bucks if not they have to just “scrap them in the POS and then they go to the dumpster Since RS originally sold these for $219 I would think some oney is better than no money. And get a cheap WI-FI USB adapter or even the official Tivo USB adapter at RS ( 160-0209 ) for $59.99:)) Michael ps Anybody know how to view my storage space status on my Tivo Series 2 ST? There must be some way of going to sys-info or see some bar graph right? Btw I was a VERY happy Moviebeam set-top movie rental customer up until 12/15/08 upon which their filing bankruptcy re-organization and MovieGallery pulled the plug on Disney’s former Moviebeam project. To bad for all us 1,800 Moviebeam customers Ha NEtflix is having LG build them a set-top Movie Rental box for get theis a whoping $799 yeah right!
I think that will NOT fly with the public So I am warming up to Tivo/Amazon/UnBox to rent movies:)). Michael, There is no way to directly view the amount of storage space available on your Series2 TiVo, however, here is a trick you may find useful: Turn on “TiVo Suggestions” in your settings. What will happen is that your TiVo will record shows it thinks you’ll be interested in and they will be tagged, accordingly. TiVo Suggestions will never take precedence over anything you’ve planned to record, so it really shouldn’t get in your way. When you view your “Now Playing” list, your TiVo suggestions will show up on the bottom; or if you have the ‘folder view’ enabled, you’ll see the number of suggestions in the folder.
It will take some time, but eventually, your hard drive will fill up. The fewer number of suggestions, the less space you have. If you run out of suggestions, it probably means some of your recordings will get ‘bumped off’ if you aren’t careful. Lou PS If you liked MovieBeam, check out VUDU. Is there a way to edit recorded TiVo programs? I have a single-tuner early TiVo unit. I record travel, outdoor, fishing/hunting, camping/off-road, and cooking shows.
I would love to be able to cut segments out of these shows, save them using my filenames, and toss the rest of the memory-hogging BS. Also, my TiVo box has begun to screw up w/channel changing to record, on any channels over like 70. Serial cable connect to Charter Cable digital cable box. Probably impending death notice for TiVo, right?
Thanx for anything you can suggest, your site is great, I had no idea TiVo was so open and accessible.
Writes 'I have old TiVo hardware that I'd like to reuse — however, I find in searching that the most frequent reply is: 'Don't cheat TiVo!' I don't want to cheat TiVo — in fact, I'd like to nuke the drive with a completely open-source distro with no TiVo drivers at all. Some uses I think would be interesting: recording video for security cameras or a drive cam; a unit for weather reporting; fax/telephone; a power monitor for the home; or other home automation. I would prefer a completely TiVo-free install — this is because I have major issues with TiVo and don't want the slightest taint of their intellectual property. But, since I paid for the hardware, I'd like to wring some use out of it rather than simply putting it in the landfill.' I tried it, and the best answer I found was 'don't bother'.
I figured that since the thing runs Linux, it'd be easy enough to repurpose. Boy was I wrong. I'd like to say that I enjoyed messing with it anyway, but the truth is, it was just a pain. All of the important drivers are wrapped up in a huge binary blob, and unusable without the TiVO software.
A TiVO is worthless as pretty much anything but a TiVO, unfortunately. Maybe you're a lot smarter than me (a quite distinct possibility), but I didn't get anywhere. If you decide to go ahead anyway, I wish you luck, and a lot more success than I had. I looked at it - we only have the S1 in this country and it's so slow and obsololete (single tuner, the generally rubbish video capture and no HD) - even though ironically its EPG is still years ahead of the competition due to Tivo's patent lock - I thought it might be an interesting project. Problem is the CPU is about as fast as the average calculator (16Mhz MIPS IIRC) and the whole binary thing means you can't use anything other than the 2.1.24 kernel to it. So you can't update the userspace (since gl. I realize I'm late to post, but I couldn't resist putting my 2 cents in.
I acquired a free series 2 Tivo from a friend, and tried to use it as a local media server (I already have a directv tivo). I had plans to just use the Tivo desktop software to push my movies and such onto the Tivo, maybe download a few shows via Amazon, play some music through Rhapsody, etc. What a pain in the butt. In order to do any of that kind of stuff, you need a 'media key'. I had to subscribe to activate my Tivo just to b. The reason you are being rebuked every time you try to do this is because it's exactly the same sort of thing that the crackers use.
Even if your use is legitimate, you won't find anybody willing to give you much help unless you go and hang around with the cracker crowd, which may not be the sort of associations you really want to make. What you're asking for shouldn't be impossible, but it won't be easy either. Getting a basic kernel running may not be too bad since Tivo released their kernel modifications back to the community, but using the hardware on the system probably won't be the easiest thing unless you're really lucky and there is already a driver for it. The abuse is in the percieved theft of service.
If you're using a TiVo, as a TiVo, without paying TiVo, you're 'stealing'. This is a self-regulating phenomenon that popped up in the TiVo community.
I totally don't get it, unless people are talking about the guide data (which of course makes sense). I bought my TiVo when they first came out - it was $400 and it belongs to ME.
I didn't have to promise to buy their service to get the box at that price, and I never did - I already know what channels all my shows are on, so I just use it as a plain DVR and program it by hand. How am I a criminal? Now I just wish the damn thing knew about the new daylight savings rules, or at least had a way to set the clock short of pulling out the hard drive and adding a command to the startup script (the RS232 port has never worked). Plus it would be nice to make it stop giving an error screen every time I go to the main menu, badgering me to buy the service. Why is it considered sacrilege to ask how to deal with that, on an expensive box that I already paid for?
If you're using a TiVo, as a TiVo, without paying TiVo, you're 'stealing'. Absolutely, positively false. I personally own a Toshiba-branded TiVo series 2 box, which came with free lifetime basic service (which essentially means the channel guide and nothing else, but that works for me just fine). I have never paid a dime directly to TiVo (though no doubt Toshiba paid some form of licensing fee), and use one of their their products 100% legitimately. I do note, however, that they appear to no longer offer their 'basic' service, nor any 'lifetime' terms - Their loss, because I will never buy another box from them (and really, I would upgrade at this point, what with no digital or HD support in my box; but as TiVo clearly doesn't want to sell to me, I will probably end up screwing around with Myth again in a year or two instead, and have a lot more motivation this time to make it work as I want). That said, if you remove the channel guide from that (and yeah, I know about the 'advanced' features like remoting and such, but I've never found myself 'needing' to watch a recorded show anywhere but home), what does TiVo really sell?
If you turn their box into a time-based (rather than content-based via the channel guide) digital VCR, you've 'stolen' absolutely nothing. They sold you hardware, you used it in a way they might not like but don't really have any right to complain about (again, key point, without using any of the features of their subscription). See:CueCat for a preemptive rebuttal to any arguments to the contrary. You are quite correct.
I bought 2 Tivo's about 3 years ago when there was a rumor of the end of lifetime service. They keep trying to sell me a new HD box, and I'd like to buy, but they either don't offer transfer of my lifetime, or they want another $300 or so.
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So as much as we like the Tivo, it's not cost effective over Verizon's DVR. I would like to turn them into time-based recorders, but the rational thing to do is sell these boxes to someone for $300 each (the subscription can be transferred). The idea that the 'channel guide' is some valuable thing is stupid anyway. We need to get away from the entire model of having third parties provide guides. Channels should provide their programming guide. Each channel should, somewhere, have that information in a standard format.
And a list of the links to those guides should be collected on the cable and sat providers websites, in some format computers and boxes can important them.(And I'm sure someone would provide broadcast lists for major metropolitan areas.) Someone makes a damn standard XML format, and the channels would just dump their data straight into it. It's like 20 fucking hours of programming, one time, to publish their damn schedule, and from them on it just works. The idea that anyone should ever pay for that data shows how retarded the media companies are in this country.
You should want to tell us what's on your channel, you morons, so we can watch it. Because you are too flat-out bone stupid to do that, we have to pay other people to do it for us. Can you imagine if other places worked this way? What if each bus had its own schedule that they didn't bother to make public, so we had 'bus guide' companies that would run around peacing the entire system together and changing us whenever it changed? I am not aware of that digital TV provides future programming information.
Providing what is currently on the channel is all well and good for TV stations, but they really need a place to download upcoming stuff. Heck, they could encode the URL of the file in the channel itself so that devices could pick it up automatically, during the original auto-tune. Then cable companies don't have to worry about collecting it. Even if the upcoming shows are on the channel, unless it covers a week in advance or somethi. They still offer lifetime subscriptions today.
Not that you'd know, you haven't checked within the last two years. Thank you for pointing that out. You have it correct, I do not check their website regularly. I have absolutely no loyalty to companies themselves, and tend to only search for 'physical things I buy' on sites that directly sell those things, such as Amazon. And I base my original objection on the fact that TiVo's product listings on such sites, if they mention service at all, always say. Okay, I admit right off that I am unfamiliar with TiVo aside from what I've heard mentioned on TV. I don't have a tivo, I don't plan on getting a tivo, I've never actually looked into it.
However, I was under the strong impression that TiVo was a DVR. How can one 'crack' or 'rip off' a DVR? What does a TiVo provide which would be something that, if one were able to re-flash a TiVo, 'crackers' would be able to use to some disadvantage to TiVo? Is TiVo cracking something which is actually done?
What benefits does it have? What makes it 'bad' as opposed to just 'bad for the company that wants you to keep using its software'?
So why not have discount hardware and subscription agreement for some defined period of time? The only reasin against this that i can imagine is some law preventing such agreement clauses that disallow customer to cancel subscription but keep the device. Er, this is how cell phones work in the US. You get a phone at deep discounts or even free and sign a multi-year contract. You cancel early you pay through the nose in 'cancellation fees' and the phone is yours to keep. Or you complete the contract and the phone is yours to keep. Nothing illegal about this sort of arrangement.
However, people don't generally LIKE these contracts and we should hardly cry foul when a company gives you discount hardware without the lock-in, and tries to rely on things like 'good customer service' and 'quality product' to keep its customers. It's about the guide data. Tivo would sell a DVR for $199 but charge $5 a month so you could dial into their server monthly to download the guide (and some value added TVGuide stuff.) They also sold identical hardware for $350 that had a lifetime subscription. You could simply alter a few bits on the non-lifetime DVR and re-sale it for a profit as having a lifetime sub. (past tense, since I have no idea what tivo has done in the last 2 years) TIVO did deserve the hack though. They sold lifetime subscriptions for $150.
Even on hardware with a service plan, the hardware failed (even under warranty) they would replace the hardware and refuse to update to lifetime subscription unless you paid another $150. This pissed off a programmer so much he went on a mission to avoid paying twice, succeded and shared it with all.
Sounds like every other service in the world which requires relatively-specialized hardware. And none of those have this problem. If TiVo just lets anyone anywhere dial in, send a 'can I have TV listings?' Request, and it responds to those requests with 'ok, sure', they don't get to complain about people 'stealing' their listings any more than a website can complain about someone adding /tomorrow.html to the end of a URL. It's not stealing if the server says 'you can have it' without you saying 'I am bill g. I think maybe you didn't get what he was asking. He isn't asking to 'cheat Tivo' or use their service with the box when he is done.He's simply wanting to repurpose the hardware - the attitude that there is something wrong with this seems very out of place around here.
I could understand if he said he was trying to bypass paying for Tivo, or was somehow going to try to take advantage of the service in some way that isn't kosher; but no, that's not the deal - he just doesn't want to throw away what amounts to a computer. I'm fairly interested in this as I have 2 series 2 tivos just laying around, they work fine and I would feel very wasteful just throwing them away. I upgraded to the series 3 (and I like it, and have been happy with the company as well as after I purchased a new HDTV I called them and told that I had owned 2 series 2's and wasn't about to pay $300 or more for an HD box, the deal they gave me was probably one of the best retention offers I've ever received from a company - not only did I get an HDbox for next to nothing, I got several months free and monthly fee reduction of over 40% for life). So I wouldn't ever advocate screwing them - but using perfectly good hardware for your own purposes (when it doesn't rip anyone off) rather than trashing it is something everyone should support - it's the sort of thinking I feel like a lot more people need to get with given the rampant consumerism and it's impact of the world and that people in it.
TiVo is so obsessed with being a subscription-model company that they will do ANYTHING to the hardware to keep the subscription model going. Two examples: The HD box has no general-purpose inputs. That's right. It's a DVR that can't actually record anything.
You either use the RF input or you get a CableCard. This is because they don't have to have the DVD companies screaming at them that users are copying movies etc. Onto their hard drives. Well, this pissed me off so much that I avoide. I ran into this exact same mentality when I started looking into satellite TV. I wanted a solution that I could roll myself, with DVR and the whole bit. It turns out that there's a popular video standard called DVB-S that almost all international satellite providers broadcast in.
The hardware is cheap, the video and audio are plain MPEG2. There are lots of DVB tuner cards that go right in your PC and many of them even have Linux drivers. The first problem I ran into is that whenever I went asking for informa. Traditionally DVB streams are of the encrypted variety around Northern America. While there is a steady transition to digital feeds for the cost savings there is still a very healthy analogue infrastructure.
Many syndicated shows are delivered via this infrastructure in the form of 'wild feeds.' This changes seasonally and it's always fun to manage when there is a wealth of syndicated content to acquire. More recently there has been the push to digital content distribution systems. Pathfire being the predomin. It's not the only reason.
The American software patent system is, fundamentally, insane unless you're a large corporation that can afford a suite of patents large enough to provide Mutual Assured Destruction for anyone who sues you. But the NVidia kernel drivers, Microsoft's McCarthy-like claim of '47 infringing patents' and the lack of software patents in Europe made software patents important to deal with. Similar problems are inherent in Microsoft's Palladium digital rights management system, relabeled 'Trusted Computing'. The idea that it is for 'protection' is naive and not based on looking at how the software works: it's designed to block software, and files, and hardware from working with anything else but vendor authorized components. Don't 'cheat' TIVO my arse.
Aparently the defintion of cheat has become using something you own to do something you want to do. If they have a business model that subsides the hardware, why is that anyone else's problem?
Seriously, why do people buy a locked down piece of hardware, then wonder why they can't do anything that hasn't specifically been authorised with it? Your solution starts with not buying the damn product in the first place!!!
Stallman may be a crazy loon that I don't want representing me, but in this particular case he's absolutely right. You shouldn't be allowed to create an abomination like TIVO with open source. Seriously, why do people buy a locked down piece of hardware, then wonder why they can't do anything that hasn't specifically been authorised with it? Your solution starts with not buying the damn product in the first place!!!
I my case, it's because I heard Tivo used Linux, and they allowed hackers. Turns out, that's only on the series 1 machines, and some early series 2's.
I got a series 2.5. This is the case with any business that want's to rent hardware to do a specific purpose. Tivo just decided to avoid the hassles of actually renting it, so they 'sell' you a locked down box. Anyway, no-one's mentioned it yet, but you can desolder the boot prom, and substitute one that has the checksums bypassed. The anti-circumvention provisions only pertain to circumventing technological measures that effectively control access to a copyright work That is precisely why replacing the boot PROM is illegal.
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Remember, the DMCA only talks about circumventing technological measures (eg wikipedia.org), it doesn't require actually accessing the copyrighted work itself afterwards. By replacing the PROM, you circumvent a technological measure that controls access to the TiVo code, regardless of your motives. The boot PROM checksum dance does NOTHING to protect the TiVo code; it is intended to prevent anything EXCEPT the TiVo code from running.
Bypass the checksum dance, and your TiVo will run the TiVo code exactly as before; thus, there's no 'protection of a copyrighted work' being circumvented here. All that changes is that the (BTW, uncopyrightable) hardware will now run YOUR operating system of choice. Before tou argue that the checksum thingy protects the copyright on THAT code, let me point out t. Seriously, why do people buy a locked down piece of hardware, then wonder why they can't do anything that hasn't specifically been authorised with it? Because they're hackers.
Hacking doesn't make any practical or economic sense. There's always some off-the-shelf solution that's less hassle and probably less money. Electronic hardware depreciates 50% per year. So it's not very long before all its market value is gone. Does that make old C64s useless?
Not to the hackers who are still playing with them 15 years after they were discontinued. Now about your headline. 'Don't buy TIVO, or any other locked down device'. You're making an apples and oranges argument.
Sure there is intellectual Property on the hardware. Just has every AMD cpu based system that you buy contains AMD ip, but that is not a reason to stop one from using it for something other than the original designer intended.
He bought the hardware, he is entitled to use it for whatever he wants, and is in no way required to go to that huge on-line fencing operation to get rid of it. Perhaps just the opposite attitude would be more appropriate. Since Tivo basically cheated the intent of the GPL by taking their software and building a system that avoided giving back to the community, even to the point of deliberately making their hardware difficult to re-purpose after it reaches its normal end of life, I think the smart thing for an on-line community rich in open source tradition would be to change its slogan from 'Don't cheat Tivo' to 'They cheated us, go ahead and cheat Tivo if you can keep it legal'. It's because Tivo is so stupid that their 'lifetime subscription' model does not, in fact, actually have a 'lifetime subscription'. Instead the software on 'lifetime subscription' Tivos just doesn't bother to check if you have a subscription.
Hence the tiniest bit of software hacking on the other Tivos can magically give you a lifetime subscription. (And, presumably, because that software is actually signed by Tivo, said Tivo will have no idea it was actually originally not a lifetime subscription one.) Thi. It's funny you mention unlocking phones. It's the cell providers that pay for those discounted phones.
But when the cell companies stop fucking ripping everyone off every chance they get I'll have some sympathy for them. TiVo is just a victim of their own incompetence.
The cell industry is just greedy and vicious and is far more deserving of some serious hacker justice. The whole use hardware however you want to does have it problems. Take the CueCat for example, we're the ones that bankrupted that company ge. Yeah, the 'don't cheat tivo' people are pretty stupid. Hell, the entire thing is stupid. Why the hell doesn't Tivo want third parties things to run on their stuff?
The work fixing the 'lifetime subscription' issue seems a lot less than the idiotic arms race. Just send everyone who currently has such a machine a notice they have to sign up for a free account, which acts just like a subscription but is magically paid each month. And after six month disable the 'lifetime subscription' downloads. The problem, o. A lot like any old computer hardware you can prop open a shed door for airflow or hands free operation while you use both hands to carry in more obsolete crap. Upon a bit of reflection, once you have collected enough obsolete crap, you could use some brick mortar and obsolete computers to build a new obsolete materials shed.
This should free up your shop to refurbish obsolete crap that you keep planning on, but don't have the room on your bench with which to diddle. If you load these old machines with old OpenMosix enabled kernels and ethernet you can crunch numbers and have a heated shop. The only drawback to this, besides blacking out your neighborhood and sending your electric meter dials spinning like a centerfuge is the need to then build another obsolete materials shed. Sell it and be done with it. The point is that I don't want TiVO to continue to derive profit from my mistake in ever buying it in the first place.
I should have simply said 'no' and purchased a more open platform, but I had a weak moment and fell for the siren song of 'you don't have to mess with it to get it to work.' I tried Mythdora in 2007 and didn't have the hardware to make it work right at the time. In other comments, 'Don't rip off TiVO' is a mantra uttered by others - it isn't one I share.
I have one TiVo I got for $12, and another I got for free. Both series II, one is a dual tuner. It turns out both of the models I have require a chip mod for you to be able to do anything at all.
There's a guy that sells these, but he doesn't publish much information about them. Alternatively, he'll do if for you at (IIRC) $100 a pop. After that, you can start to put in your own mods, etc.
About the only widespread hacking information you'll find is on how to increase the disk sizes on your TiVo. Does it currently work, and have a lifetime program guide subscription? If so then sell it and use the money to buy something more general-purpose. If it doesn't have a lifetime subscription, I'd just junk it and find something else. The hardware is a bit specialized to it's task, and if it's a Series 2 then it's processor is a bit underpowered by today's standards.
For cheap you could put together a micro-ATX box with an Atom processor based motherboard in it and not have to worry about proprietary hardwar. I am amazed at the timidity, childishness and ignorance of some posters on the issue of re-use of a piece of hardware someone paid good money for. There is no 'abuse' of TIVO involved, as far as the intent of the original poster is concerned. The word 'abuse' is over-used and reflects a politically-correct embracing of the notion of victim-hood that makes me cringe. Someone even went as far as to assert that the phone companies who offer discounted phones as a hook to con suckers into paying grossly exhor.
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