Hacking the TiVo, 2nd Edition

The second edition of the successful "Hacking the TiVo" (1592001114) provides the latest information for TiVo owners got get the most out of the TiVo. This book discusses how to hack the latest TiVo hardware, including the Sony 4000, Pioneer 57H, and Pioneer 810H (updated Series 2 TiVos running on a new version of the TiVo operating system). These updates require additional techniques in order to expand storage capacity and install utilities into their file systes. Not only appealing to TiVo owners who want to save money, this book also serves owners who want the security of backing up their TiVos themselves, and Linux users who want detailed information about the version of Linux used in TiVos. "Taboo" topics such as video extraction are also covered. more

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Posted: May-08-2007

not very useful

can find most of the info on the internet only for those wanting to open up the tivo

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Posted: Apr-05-2006

Not very enlightening

This book by the cover appears to be a very in-depth book when in fact it is meant to be a sort of text book. I have taught for over 4 years and this company was a primary source of text books. Over all their text books are of good quality, but leave a bit more to be desired. I found this book to...

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Posted: Sep-11-2005

Excellent Book, Pathetic Editing

As usual for the past 15 years, the editors were asleep at the wheel and completely hosed the vital (to brain-damaged Linux) command line arguments -- at least on page 39 (Chapter 2: Adding a Larger Hard Disk to Your TiVo).If you're transferring everything over to a larger hard drive using the...

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Posted: Aug-10-2005

System information

The current, non-DirecTV system, updated by satellite, is actually 7.1 (as of 9 August 2005). I haven't found that any of the hacking books are especialy useful for Series 2 boxes, especially as the software upgrades.

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Posted: Aug-02-2005

DirecTV Tivo System-2 software Updates - now 6.1

While this book contains some useful information for older Tivo boxes, the Series-2 has been Upgraded automatically by the Satellite to an even higher version. While the other reviewer, recently written, says it's now 5.3 and nobody has figured it out without actually tweaking hardware and...

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Posted: Nov-23-2004

Not applicable for newer Tivos

I didn't give this book 2 stars because it's a bad book; overall this is a well-written book that has a lot of good information for earlier Series1 and Series2 Tivos -- specifically those that have software versions 3.0 and lower. There is some info. for software versions 3.1 and 4.0, but the...

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