Comments on: It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 05 May 2005 06:06:01 +0000

This show is absolutely brilliant. My recomendation is to purchase the DVD of the series when it comes out. Reward the makers of this series for such a wonderful peice of art.

I think a 3rd series is in doubt at the moment but with sales of DVD’s they might reconsider making a 3rd.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:59:08 +0000

Home Media + Nero Express + DVD burner in PC = TiVo quality unDRM’d DVDs. I hate having that many shows clogging up my menu. I archive to DVD and move on.

By: BS

BS — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:03:27 +0000

You will have to do a little more work to get a drive larger than 137GB to work unless you have a TiVO that uses an LBA48 Linux kernel, but it is possible. I would also recommend replacing your old 40 GB drive rather than adding another drive. A lot of people who are running two drives in their TiVOs (especially without the kit to stagger drive startup and the additional fans) are having problems with their power supplies and overheating. I have no problems with single drives, even though I exclusively use 120 GB 7200 RPM Seagate drives (instead of 5400 RPM models).

I recently read something about the TiVO “Video Publisher” tool and I am wondering where I can get more information on this. Is this tool available to the general public or only to TiVO partners or what?

By: Jack Mehoff

Jack Mehoff — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:21:27 +0000

You can pick up a 200GB Seagate (whisper quiet drive, with 5 year warranty) for around $80 after rebate. Just swap out the 40gb drive in there with this one. 200GB will give you 225 hours at basic. Its easy to do. You’re crazy not to.

By: BS

BS — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 04:49:51 +0000

Well, there are lots of things you CAN do, I don’t know which would be the best for your situation… I have 4 TiVOs and about 2.5 Terabytes of storage online in RAID 5, most of my storage is full (believe it or not) with video, dumped from my TiVOs with TivoToGo, captured from my Firewire enabled cable box, captured from one of my HDTV Tuner cards, or dumped from my girlfriend’s DV camcorder. The easiest solution is to use TivoToGo and burn the episodes to DVDs using Sonic MyDVD on Windows (or if you have the storage, just keep them on disk). However, you see the software lock-in there… You could follow many of the guides on the web to upgrade the single disk in your TiVO to a 120 GB model (or a 400 GB model if you have a new 540* unit with the LBA48 support) while preserving your recordings. I personally have replaced the drives in all of my TiVOs with 120 GB disks. And for all those wondering what the heck I do with all this video, no, I probably won’t watch most of it… I’m one of those guys who finds more joy in messing with the technology than actually using it for what it was intended…

By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:28:21 +0000

Mostly watch and delete. My main TiVo is a Pioneer DVR-810H, so I’ll dump things to DVD-R if I really want to keep them.

And with TiVoToGo I’ve been meaning to turn one of my old, unused PCs into a media server with a few big drives (it already has a RAID MB), just haven’t had the time.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:12:44 +0000

Here’s what I did…. I got enough referrals to get myself a new 140hr TiVo. Now I don’t have that problem .