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...problem occurred when the machine ran out of room on its puny 30-gigabyte hard drive (space enough for about 10 hours of TV at best quality). Loath to delete or miss anything TiVo had saved especially for me - who wants to disappoint a machine that has worked so hard?--I lost a lot of sleep watching things I wasn't quite in the mood for. Take the night I stayed up bleary-eyed through the three-hour Russian version of Solaris just so TiVo could cram the next day's Simpsons and West Wing onto its NOW PLAYING list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can Hack It | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...Luckily for me, there is a whole subculture of TiVo users who squeeze better performance out of their boxes by hacking into them. Two how-to books on the topic will be published in August (TiVo Hacks, O'Reilly; Hacking the TiVo, Premier Press). There's also a step-by-step guide at tivofaq.com/hack. Or you can do what I did: install a ready-made upgrade from WeaKnees.com. All hacking will, of course, void your warranty. But what you get in return is a supercharged TiVo with three or more times the recording capacity. The larger the hard drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can Hack It | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...With TiVo, the hacking process is simpler than you might think. This is because TiVo is not so much a stereo component as a computer that runs on the free operating system called Linux. It uses IDE hard drives that you can purchase at any computer store for about a dollar per gigabyte. You need to hook up the hard drive to your PC or Mac, install a free piece of software called BlessTivo, open the TiVo box and attach its new brain. (Reverse the process, and you can make a backup of precious TV recordings on your computer.) Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can Hack It | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...this sounds too perplexing, you can take the easy way out. The drives at WeaKnees.com - although pricey at $159 for 80 gigabytes, all the way up to $449 for 320 gigabytes - come with the software installed, all the equipment you'll need to wrench open your TiVo, and blessedly lucid instructions. I took longer than the estimated half an hour to finish the job but only because I have a hard time remembering which way you turn a screw to loosen it (lefty-loosey, righty-tighty, just in case you're wondering). If you're similarly home-improvement challenged, WeaKnees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can Hack It | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...Result: my TiVo can now record 80 hours of TV at the best-quality rate or 145 hours at the lowest quality. That isn't anything like the limit - you can get up to 344 hours on the 320-gigabyte drive - but it's enough to record every single West Wing ever broadcast. And maybe I'll have space left for a nice long Russian movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can Hack It | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

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