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Ultimate TV (UTV) Hard Drive Upgrade

Posted by timothy on from the geniuses-meet-the-idiot-box dept.

BubbaJoeBob writes: "I just read this thread over at the AVSForum that jeffm7 was able to upgrade his UTV 40GB drive to a WD 100GB drive. Other users are reporting that they were also successful using the WD 120GB drive." And aside from ending up with an apparently useless original drive, this sounds much less painful and involved than various homebrewed TiVO upgrades; according to posters on this thread, it's nearly plug-and-play (with a necessary download step in the middle).

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  1. Ut-oh by CodeRed · · Score: 3, Funny

    This just must be illegal!

    Kind of like chewing a pencil. That was not the intent of the maker, therefore reverse engineering the wood is a violation of the DMCA as well?

    I give this a week before you hear about DMCA implications.

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  2. Help! by Geoffd1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried to upgrade my VCR as per the instructions, but it didn't work. Can somebody help me?

  3. Re:Upgrade comparison... by Corrado · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have never upgraded a TiVo/UTV/DirecTV/etc but this sounds really suspicious. Maybe I have been a M$ victim for too long and am seeing conspiracies everywhere, but I can't imagine making it this easy to "pirate" the more expensive hardware. Are we sure that UTV is not recording the phone number & address of everyone that does this? Do they then send them a bill for the extra record time? I don't see how they could, but IANAL.

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