Chris Blount
02-23-04, 06:54 AM
Found this article. Might be a good way to upgrade the DirecTivo if you don't want to hassle with using a computer.
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Kits make upgrading TiVo easy
By Sam Diaz
Knight Ridder Newspapers
A few years ago, a couple of colleagues set out on a secret mission. They, like everyone else with a TiVo box in the living room, quickly realized that 40 hours wasn't enough to store all of the TV shows they were recording.
So they went underground, scanning newsgroup postings and Web sites for the cultlike TiVo people who would tell them how to get into the box and add an everyday hard drive.
Today, there's no reason to head into the dark alleys of the Web to upgrade a hard drive for a TiVo digital video recorder. The crew over at Weaknees (www.weaknees.com) are only a click away.
The company, besides being an online TiVo reseller, is selling do-it-yourself hard-drive upgrade kits. And even if the idea of opening the box is so scary that you break out in hives, there's no reason to worry. The upgrade kits are easy to use.
Really easy -- if you can follow directions. That's the key to a successful installation.
The kit itself is not flashy -- there's a hard drive, some cables, the exact number of screws you'll need and even a screwdriver with a special head that loosens the screws used on the casing of the TiVo box. You'll need to find your own phillips-head screwdriver.
If you can follow step-by-step directions, written in simple English -- with pictures, no less -- you can upgrade from about 40 hours to as many as 320 hours of storage in less than a couple hours. The instructions even include information on how to fix a rebooting glitch on a handful of DirecTV units -- just in case.
Full Article (http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/business/8007411.htm)
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Kits make upgrading TiVo easy
By Sam Diaz
Knight Ridder Newspapers
A few years ago, a couple of colleagues set out on a secret mission. They, like everyone else with a TiVo box in the living room, quickly realized that 40 hours wasn't enough to store all of the TV shows they were recording.
So they went underground, scanning newsgroup postings and Web sites for the cultlike TiVo people who would tell them how to get into the box and add an everyday hard drive.
Today, there's no reason to head into the dark alleys of the Web to upgrade a hard drive for a TiVo digital video recorder. The crew over at Weaknees (www.weaknees.com) are only a click away.
The company, besides being an online TiVo reseller, is selling do-it-yourself hard-drive upgrade kits. And even if the idea of opening the box is so scary that you break out in hives, there's no reason to worry. The upgrade kits are easy to use.
Really easy -- if you can follow directions. That's the key to a successful installation.
The kit itself is not flashy -- there's a hard drive, some cables, the exact number of screws you'll need and even a screwdriver with a special head that loosens the screws used on the casing of the TiVo box. You'll need to find your own phillips-head screwdriver.
If you can follow step-by-step directions, written in simple English -- with pictures, no less -- you can upgrade from about 40 hours to as many as 320 hours of storage in less than a couple hours. The instructions even include information on how to fix a rebooting glitch on a handful of DirecTV units -- just in case.
Full Article (http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/business/8007411.htm)