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Title: Hacking the TiVo by William Von Hagen ISBN: 1-59200-111-4 Publisher: Premier Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Hands on review
Comment: CAUTION!!! Just finished upgrading the hard drive on my Series 1 TiVo. This book was full of errors and outdated information. Had I not bought Jeff Keegan's "Hacking TiVo" book at the same time as this book, I would have a TiVo boat anchor by now. Luckily, I am the cautious type and read both books before I started. I don't think the author, William von Hagen even proof read his work before it was published. Besides giving wrong information on setting up larger disk caches etc. the book was littered with lots of small typos such as MB instead of GB etc.
I did give this book an extra star for the user friendly language and explinations and the larger sized type. Jeff Keegan's book is a lot more technical, has less detailed explinations and smaller type.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not for novices
Comment: This book is poorly organized. It has you flipping all through the book and leaving you frustrated as where to begin. I am not a novice. I am a computer programmer with win2000, xp and linux machines and still couldn't figure out where the 3.x tivo kernel is for the 2 Kernel monte method of getting a command prompt on the series 2. This is required to get anything to work on that system. It mentions nothing about mounting specific partitiions (4,7,9) in order to get your drive mounted to your machine. This book needed some serious usability testing from people who haven't hacked a series 2 before. I guess it will make for some good paper for my fireplace. Wait until something better comes out or find better info for free on the internet (which I had to do to get everything working).
Rating: 5
Summary: Definative resource for the Series 2
Comment: This is a great reference for hacking the Series2 TiVo, and the only book out that covers the methods for getting to a command prompt on it. This is significantly more difficult than on the Series1, and it's nice to see a book that covers it.
That said, if you have a Series1 then Jeff Kegan's "Hacking TiVo" is probably a better choice.
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Title: Hacking TiVo: The Expansion, Enhancement and Development Starter Kit with CD-ROM by Jeff Keegan ISBN: 0764543369 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: TiVo Hacks by Raffi Krikorian ISBN: 0596005539 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:TiVo Series2 40-Hour Digital Video Recorder ASIN: B00008BREC Publisher: TiVo List Price(USD): $199.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $188.94 |
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Title: High-Tech Toys for Your TV: Secrets of TiVo, Xbox, ReplayTV, UltimateTV and More by Steve Kovsky ISBN: 0789726688 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Windows XP Hacks by Preston Gralla ISBN: 0596005113 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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