Secret TiVo Tips and Tweaks

Getting Serious: More Advanced TiVo Hacking

Note: Making additions or changes to your original TiVo hardware will likely void the warranty.

Get More Recording Time

A group of Linux gurus have figured out how to replace your original hard drive with a new one, or add a second drive to your TiVo. This allows you to upgrade the number of hours on your TiVo yourself while still allowing it to work with TiVo service.

There is now a whole forum dedicated to help with this procedure at the TiVo Upgrade Center.

Also, check out the TiVo HAQ FAQ site for all the latest details and other hacks you can do.

NewReleasesVideo.com tells you how to upgrade for yourself and sells kits to upgrade storage space, while DigitalRecorder.com specializes in upgrade kits for all manner of DVRs.

Get More TiVo Tips

Hard copy guides to many more TiVo features include Hacking Tivo: The Expansion, Enhancement and Development Starter Kit by Jeff Keegan, Hacking the TiVo by William von Hagen, and TiVo Hacks by Raffi Krikorian (at the O'Reilly Books site). For almost anything you wanted to know or ask online about TiVo, visit the tivofaq site.