Hacking the Sony WebTV Plus?

dcigary asks: "So, I'm visiting my local outlet mall, and strolling through the Sony Outlet store. At the entrance, they have a BIG stack of refurbished WebTV Plus boxes, with a price tag of $19.99 each. It also included a wireless keyboard! Being a sucker for a cheap price, I snatched up two of them, figuring I could at least set one up for my net-impared parents so they can surf the internet easily. What else can I do with one of these boxes? Are they hackable? I would really like to add an ethernet adapter to it and put it on my house LAN, and run out through the cable modem, but that would probably be asking too much. I've read through the specs and apparently they have a 1.2G drive in them as well? Any other ideas? Any sites out there dedicated to this?" $19.95 for a Web-TV box? That's not a bad price if these things can be enhanced in any way, shape or form.

Comments

Re:1Gig Seagate drive ?

[unitron]

These things got a hard drive inside? Can anyone point me towards a link that verifies this?

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the innards of the webtv plus box

[XneznJuber]

Inside the WebTV box you will find a 56 Kbps v.90 capable modem, soldered in, and not very normal looking, so probably not salvagable

16MB RAM
8MB ROM
2MB Flash Memory (the useful part)
the cpu isn't to shabby, its a 167 Mhz R5230

but at 20 bucks a pop with no required service, i would have grabbed a trunkful and unloaded them on ebay!

Re:1Gig Seagate drive ?

[dcigary]

Yup.

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