Last night I was pleasantly surprised when my TiVo indicated that it needed to be restarted for the 9.2 service update. For those of you who don’t know, the 9.2 service update is supposed to enable the eSATA port on the S3 & TiVo HD so that you will be able to easily add additional storage. Now all we’re waiting for is for TiVo to update their website so that we can find out which eSATA drives are officially supported.
In addition to enabling the eSATA port, 9.2 will also enable Amazon Unbox progressive downloads. Progressive downloads will allow you to watch an Amazon Unbox program while it is being downloaded as opposed to having to wait for the entire download to complete. Having the ability to play an Unbox video while is is being downloaded will be a great feature. Just the other day I had to wait for the entire episode of The Office to transfer before I could play it.
I wish I could see what the latest updates have done.
However, my tivo died during the process of updating to 9.1 a couple of weeks ago.
It went into a loop where it would reboot itself, say it was nearly ready, then reboot again.
Life without TiVo has been a shock to our system. A friend is running diagnostics against the disk to see if there is anything he can do to recover things before I give up and start over.
I sure wish that there was some way that one could save wishlists, season passes, one time recording settings, and what one has recorded, so that in times like this, one hasn’t lost all one’s “valuable” media.