There are quite a few reasons why it is important that TiVo is ok with their clients adding their own drives. TiVo makes money if you send your TiVo unit in to have it upgraded. They do not get any payment from you throwing a 30GB Quantum drive of your own in it. They could easily come out with a patch of some sort that would make it more difficult (but not impossible) to add storage by hacking your TiVo. This is a good business decision on their part because they get the subscription fees, and they make money off of the original unit anyway. Heck, they are probably selling considerably more TiVos because of all of the press about the TiVo hack and everyone wanting to get a TiVo so that they can hack it. The only way this would be bad for them is if their business partners do not agree that this is the correct course of action on this issue. The major business partner that could be expected to object would be Quantum (the supplier of the legit TiVo drives), but since Quantum drives are the most common drives to be used in hacking the TiVo units, they will probably not complain. Overall, the TiVo hack seems to be good for just about everybody, except for the folks that permanently ruin their TiVos by messing up the hack, of course.
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There are quite a few reasons why it is important that TiVo is ok with their clients adding their own drives. TiVo makes money if you send your TiVo unit in to have it upgraded. They do not get any payment from you throwing a 30GB Quantum drive of your own in it. They could easily come out with a patch of some sort that would make it more difficult (but not impossible) to add storage by hacking your TiVo. This is a good business decision on their part because they get the subscription fees, and they make money off of the original unit anyway. Heck, they are probably selling considerably more TiVos because of all of the press about the TiVo hack and everyone wanting to get a TiVo so that they can hack it. The only way this would be bad for them is if their business partners do not agree that this is the correct course of action on this issue. The major business partner that could be expected to object would be Quantum (the supplier of the legit TiVo drives), but since Quantum drives are the most common drives to be used in hacking the TiVo units, they will probably not complain. Overall, the TiVo hack seems to be good for just about everybody, except for the folks that permanently ruin their TiVos by messing up the hack, of course.