Nice find Dave!

I know I’m a little late to report this but I guess it’s better late than never…

DVRupgrade and Neuros have partnered up to offer $3500 if you can get your TiVo to talk with a Neuros OSD. A post over at the DVRupgrade forums provides more information:

People love the TiVo DVR for its robust program guide and related features, and people love the OSD for the portability of its recordings. So, we’ve come up with a bounty for a project that combines the best of both devices. Namely for the OSD to piggyback on the TiVo’s recording schedule and make portable MPEG-4 recordings of those shows that you choose. It’s essentially like having TiVo simultaneously record onto a portable device at the same time that its recording to it’s hard drive. With no file transfer or conversion, you could have all your favorite shows automatically on your laptop, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry or whatever portable device you prefer. Ultimately, this functionality would be perfect for commuters, road-warriors or anyone that spends their days on the go.

Along with this bounty, DVRupgrade is also offering $30 off the OSD if you use the following coupon code: HACK-THE-NEUROS-1207.

Thanks for dropping me an email Dave.

DVRUprade has decided to bring their blog back to life. I know from personal experience how hard it can be to update a blog on a regular basis (personal site). Hopefully DVRUpgrade continues to post content to their blog. I look forward to reading what they have to say. In my opinion, you can never have enough TiVo news and information.

Now if only TiVo would resurrect the official TiVo blog :)….

WeaKnees has announced that they are now shipping upgrade kits for the recently released TiVo HD. Prices vary depending on how much HD content you want to be able to record. For $159 you can currently get a 250GB drive which will allow you to record 32 hours of high definition content. If money doesn’t matter, you migh want to go with a 1TB drive so that you can record 145 hours of high definition content ($599).

Along with the upgrade kits, WeaKnees has also start to take pre-orders for already upgraded TiVo HD DVRs. Just like the upgrade kits, prices vary depending on how much storage you want.

Spotted on TVSquad.

If you answered yes to the title of this post, you might want to head on over to PVRBlog where there is a detailed set of instructions on how to get TiVo Desktop 2.4 to work with Vista (2.4 currently does not work with Vista).  The instructions are a bit of a hack so just be careful….

Are you running out of space on your Series 3 TiVo? Well, somebody at TiVoCommunity figured out how to enable the eSATA port on a Series 3 TiVo so that additional storage can be added. The hack looks pretty easy however, since this isn’t a supported TiVo feature there’s always the chance that TiVo may disable this in the future.

In any case, if you want to do this, you can head on over to TiVoCommunity or Engadget for complete instructions.

Since I don’t have a Series 3 TiVo I was unable to try this hack myself. Let me know if you end up trying it…

Our friends over at EngadgetHD recently upgraded their Series 3 TiVo by adding a 500 GB drive to the DVR. The newly upgraded TiVo now supports up to 65 hours of HD recording as opposed to 35 hours in a standard Series 3 TiVo.

Instead of just purchasing an upgrade kit from WeaKnees or DVRUpgrade, the folks over at EngadgetHD decided to do it the hard way and upgrade the DVR themselves using Linux and several hacks. Please note that this upgrade isn’t intended for everybody. It requires you to have some Linux skills as well as an understanding of hardware and how it works. I really would hate to see somebody destroy their $800 TiVo..

Let me know if you are a brave enough to try out this upgrade. I’m to cheap to buy a Series 3 TiVo yet alone take the chance that I might destroy it…..