WeaKnees RAID 1 Extender Drive Review and Hands On

Features and Highlights

The WeaKnees RAID 1 Extender Drive is an eSATA drive enclosure which comes preconfigured with two hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration.  Since it uses RAID 1 technology, the device is capable of storing a secure backup of your DVR’s recordings.  If one of the hard drives fail, the device is able [...]

Unboxing The WeakNees RAID1 External Storage Enclosure (Review To Follow)

The kind folks over at WeaKnees.com, recently sent me one of their RAID 1 external storage drives for review.  Thus far, I’ve only had the chance to unbox the device however, I plan on setting it up and posting a review sometime in the near future.

Let me know if you have this device connected to [...]

Installing pyTiVo (Review To Follow)

I just finished installing pyTiVo on my Windows XP virtual machine (using VMware Fusion).  For those of you who don’t know, here’s a brief description of pyTiVo taken from the software’s official website:

pyTivo is both an HMO and GoBack server. Similar to TiVo Desktop pyTivo loads many standard video compression codecs and outputs mpeg2 video [...]

Videora TiVo Convertor (How To Transcode Video Files For Playback On Your TiVo)

Lifehacker has published a rather lengthy howto which covers converting video files for playback on your TiVo. Unlike my TiVoGoBack howto, this one is written specifically for Windows and instead of using TiVo Desktop plus, lifehacker has instead decided to use a free program called Videora. Check out the review if [...]

Initial Impressions Of The Comcast TiVo DVR

Bijan of bijansabet.com has published a mini review of his newly arrived Comcast TiVo DVR. According to the post, Bijan has only been using the DVR for a couple of days now however, thus far he is extremely happy with how it works.

I heard from a few other friends to expect some bugs. But [...]

Gear Live: Installing The My DVR Expander (Add Additional Storage To A Series 3 Or TiVo HD)

Gear Live has posted a video which shows how easy it is to add additional storage to a Series 3 or TiVo HD using the Western Digital My DVR Expander. Check it out if you are interested in adding more storage to your TiVo HD or Series 3.

Spotted on TiVoLovers.

Video Of The Day: Series 3 TiVo Review On G4

G4 has put together the following review of the Series 3 TiVo. Before you watch it, you probably should hear about what I found wrong with the review. First of all, in the review they kept on saying that the device costs $600 however, they’ve neglected to mention that TiVo is offering a [...]

TiVo NowPlaying (OS X Dashboard Widget)

A recent comment turned me onto a OS X Dashboard widget which allows you to transfer shows from your TiVo using TiVoToGo.

Configuring this widget is extremely easy. Basically all I had to do was enter my TiVo’s IP address and my media access key which I was able to get from here.

One of the [...]

Video Of The Day: B&H TiVo HD Review

B&H has published a rather detailed review of the TiVoHD up on YouTube. Normally, I would embed this type of video directly in this post however, B&H disabled the embed option (why would they do such a thing?). In any case, it’s definitely worth your time to watch the video especially if you [...]

engadgetHD.com: TiVoToGo & MRV HD Review (How Fast Are Your TiVoToGo Transfers?)

Ben Drawbaugh has posted a wonderful review of TiVoToGo and MRV (multi-room viewing) on the Series 3. Overall, the review is rather positive however, Ben did say that his transfer speeds are rather slow.

Granted, the transfers were pretty slow — in fact, they were about twice real time — and our understanding is that [...]