[LINK] TiVo cops price gouge flak

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of David Boxall
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2009 9:40 PM
> To: Link
> Subject: [LINK] TiVo cops price gouge flak
> 
> 
> Apparently, TiVos sold in Australia have networking hardware,
> but it's 
> disabled. The Australian distributors are selling a software upgrade 
> (which won't allow transfer of some content: ie. it's 
> cripple-ware) for 
> $199 (temporarily discounted to $99 because of protests). 
> Where are the 
> hackers when we need them?
> 

David - Dick Smith sells Eeprom writers. ($178.00)

Second hand TIVOs from the states can be had for $25.00 (with flaky
hardidsk)

http://cgi.ebay.com/TiVo-Series-1-or-2-Single-Hard-Drive-Upgrade-Repair_
W0QQitemZ330316951132QQcategoryZ11725QQcmdZViewItem

Eeprom chips are $24.00.
Remove EEProm - insert into reader/writer.
Eeprom can be read and then written in about 3 minutes - voila -
american version........ Inside a PAL TIVO AND.... American remote has
the skip the adverts button.

Then throw away american TIVO - its NTSC so not much cop. But the EEProm
is Transmission standard independent.

Not that I am advocating anything illegal - you just asked for a hacker
- and I responded as to how a self altered configuration as delineated
above is actually a better idea.


Tom


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