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Tivo Quadcard Promises Thousand-Hour PVR

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-1200-hours-seems-much-better dept.

edrock200 writes "The folks over at 9thtee are developing a quad card for Tivo series 1 and Tivo/DirecTV combo units...it will allow you to add 4 hard drives to your Tivo and also break the 133gb limit for each drive....this will effectively give you a 1200-hour unit with 4 320GB drives. Theres also a fairly detailed thread of the development process over at the AVS forums." Gonna need the space since scifi has decided to air 4 episodes of SG1 a day!

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  1. Hours are great, but.... by Art+Popp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My Tivo has 60some hours of recording time. And it's more than enough. The reality of TV watching is that there is very little worth seeing more than twice. I don't know that I've ever had anything auto-deleted that I wanted to watch, and if I did, I'd blame myself for not getting around to it in the first 30 days. If you're shopping Tivos, upgrade, but don't go nuts, it's just not necessary...

  2. with only one tuner? by diesel_jackass · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1000+ hours is awesome, but what good is it if you want to record more than one channel at a time?

    Are there any tuner hacks to TiVo?

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  3. I think the point of this.. by Frank+of+Earth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .. not that you don't actually need to record and save that much TV/Movies on your Tivo, but rather it can be done and Tivo doesn't seem to be preventing it.

    What makes Tivo so popular to "hackers" is that Tivo does not seek legal action on every little hack that is developed. Of course, if one would create a hack that bypasses the subscription process; that's a different story, but they seem to be pretty open to hacks such as these.

    Too bad we can't say the same for xBox. I would really love it if I could also use my xBox as a MAME console.

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  4. Re:That's all well and good... by Zathrus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a side note, you really don't want a 7200 rpm drive in a TiVo. 5400 rpm is preferred, since they generate less heat, and TiVo's can have heat problems as is.

  5. Puhleeze! by tswinzig · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First of all, you're saying it's cheaper, but it's not. You're leaving out the cost of your computer, hard drives, etc. Now add $150 for the special video card. And to top it all off, what you're left with is nowhere near as easy to use or as convenient or as smart or as living-room-appearance-friendly as TiVo.

    Although it would be nice to have an easy way to pull and archive video off TiVo, it's not crucial, and if it was, I could use one of the TiVo net hacks to implement it.

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