TiVo DVRs have some diagnostic utilities hidden under the hood. In certain situations, they can be useful for diagnosing TiVo problems, especially bad hard drives.
Here’s a screenshot from one of the tests:
For full info, see our TiVo kickstart code page and our page dedicated to TiVo kickstart 54.
Alex over at TiVoBlog posted a video of himself installing a WeaKnees external TiVo backup drive. We’re very happy to say that it was as easy for him as it should be for anyone. I just takes a few minutes!
Thanks Alex!
Well, we thought it would never happen. We thought that development on PATA drives was pretty much over. But Western Digital surprised us and there’s a 320 GB drive that works (very well!) in the AppleTV.
So we’ve added that option to our site in two ways. You can:
1 – Buy a complete AppleTV with 320 GB of space
2 – Upgrade your AppleTV to 320 GB of space
Either way, see our AppleTV Upgrade page.
We’ve added a new series of TiVo Upgrade Kits to our website. These allow you to add a 1 Terabyte drive to your TiVo or Humax Series2 unit. Yes, that’s 1,000 Gigabytes.
We’ve been selling 1 Terabyte replacement drives for these models for some time. Now we completed testing of the “add” configuration and we’ve begun shipping these units. For more information on the difference between “add” and “replace” kits, see our TiVo upgrade add v. replace page.
These kits add about 1275 hours to all models at Basic Quality, or about 350 hours at Best Quality.
Here’s a screenshot of a unit with a kit added. The unit was originally an 80 GB model:
These kits are available plug-and-play for these TiVo models:
and these Humax models:
These are the largest “add” kits ever!
TiVo, Inc. issued their financial year-end results today via a press release. Beside the numbers (profit is up, but not on a large scale; subscribers are down, but not on a large scale), there is an interesting tidbit on the progress of the DirecTV HD DVR:
“Additionally, we continue to work on our new DIRECTV HD DVR. The new HD DVR will include popular TiVo broadband features, and will be immediately accessible to DIRECTV’s entire national customer base on day-one of the launch. We have had a very successful history with DIRECTV and those subscribers are some of our most loyal customers. Now, as these customers look to upgrade from standard definition programming, they will have the option to choose the TiVo experience to help them truly get the most out of their high definition viewing experience.”