Do you have a turbonet card installed in your TiVo?

**EvilBoB** · 30th July 2003

Just wanted to get a quick feel for how many people actually mod their TiVos and was wondering how many people have installed a turbonet card and maybe a brief description of what they use it for. I personally have TiVoweb installed and use TServer for video extraction (Archiving purposes)

**stuarti** · 31st July 2003

Yep, have the Turbonet card, use it to get the listings via the Internet and also for extraction and tivoweb, can check out my tivo and program a recording remotely via the web.

**EvilBoB** · 31st July 2003

It's also good fun to remotely annoy people who are home during the day by changing the channels via the TiVoWeb

hehe

**stuarti** · 31st July 2003

Yeah, thats a cracker.

"the TiVo kept changing the channel when I was watching Trisha"

MMUUHHAAAAHHAAA!

**wizer** · 31st July 2003

how easy is it to extract files to be burned to dvdr from the TiVo?

**EvilBoB** · 31st July 2003

very. I use tytool to extract the mpg and then Dazzle DVD Factory for producing a nice DVD with menus. Took no time at all to do.

(Of course you need to run a piece of software on the TiVo but that's really easy)

**wizer** · 31st July 2003

great, u can talk me through that when i get my ethernet card

**EvilBoB** · 31st July 2003

**harryb** · 2nd September 2003

Can you explain to me what tivo's are inside then

are they just a pc or ???
a bit confusing when i hear installing cards etc

sorry if i sound dim but tivo is a strange concept for me

**wizer** · 5th September 2003

inside the box is a mother board, PSU and a HDD. The motherboard has one slot capable of taking a network card.

the CPU is a powerPC chip. it runs a form of linux

**subhuman** · 5th September 2003

Ditto on the Turbonet card... had one installed since about 2 weeks after picking up my Tivo (remember the Dixons �99 deal ?)

I use it for video extraction and my own guide data (semi-working - not a stable replacement for a real subscription)

Cheers,
sub.