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"RobR" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "PTRAVEL" <ptravel@ruyitang.com> wrote in message
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> > "In my evolving opinion" <no@email.com> wrote in message
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> >> I'd be willing to pay for it. What's the hold up?
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> > You can get your Series 1 to do everything that TivoToGo does (and it
will
> > do it a lot faster). There are a few simple hacks that enable it to do
> > so. I routinely move programs from the Tivo to my computer, and then
> > either burn them to DVD or transfer them to my laptop and watch them
when
> > I travel. Do a google search on "tivo hacks" and "tivo video
extraction."
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> It would be cheaper just to buy a series 2 with USB and an ethernet
> dongle than it would be to invest in a turbonet or tivonet card.
Hardly. My Series 1 has a life-time subscription. The turbonet card was
around $60. The support/hacking software was free.
Incidently, it takes about 6 minutes to transfer a 1-hour program from my
Tivo to my computer. Add, perhaps, another 4 minutes to create the key file
and transcode to standard mpeg that I can burn to DVD or transfer to my
laptop for viewing on the road.
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