Comments on: 40 hour unit $149 with rebate – and new news http://www.gizmolovers.com/2004/02/25/40-hour-unit-149-with-rebate-and-new-news/ TiVo, Slingbox, Android, Blu-ray Disc, and whatever other tech I feel like blogging about... Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: megazonehttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2004/02/25/40-hour-unit-149-with-rebate-and-new-news/comment-page-1/#comment-104 megazone Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:43:57 +0000 http://www.tivolovers.com/2004/02/25/40-hour-unit-149-with-rebate-and-new-news/#comment-104 TiVoPony just confirmed the 140 hour unit - http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?postid=1764685#post1764685 TiVoPony just confirmed the 140 hour unit – http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?postid=1764685#post1764685

]]> By: megazonehttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2004/02/25/40-hour-unit-149-with-rebate-and-new-news/comment-page-1/#comment-103 megazone Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:36:42 +0000 http://www.tivolovers.com/2004/02/25/40-hour-unit-149-with-rebate-and-new-news/#comment-103 True, it could be multiple drives, but that'd require a change to the internals. The current S2 design only has one drive mount point. So it'd need a different mounting bracket than the others. Plus there is the power-up issue with the current power supplies that sparked the development of things like the PowerTrip for upgraders. Plus the cost of the drives is such that it should be cheaper to use one 160GB drive than a 60 and an 80, etc.Both the Toshiba and the Pioneer run 5.x - I think the Toshiba is 5.1.x and the Pioneer is 5.2.x. I don't know if the Toshiba has LBA48 support or not. Getting it to run on a standard S2 is probably mostly an issue of beta testing and verification. There really aren't any new features in 5.x that I can see - that don't relate to DVDs. Maybe it is just a branch for integrated DVD units. The Pioneer does record in a different (DVD compliant) format, but the Toshiba doesn't - so that's not inate to 5.x. Different encoders are used, but that should just be a module in the code.The new HDTV DirecTiVo also has LBA48 support - but that's in a branch of 3.1 they created just for that unit. It is branched from the standard DTV software build, with a new kernel to support the larger (250GB) drive they use. True, it could be multiple drives, but that’d require a change to the internals. The current S2 design only has one drive mount point. So it’d need a different mounting bracket than the others. Plus there is the power-up issue with the current power supplies that sparked the development of things like the PowerTrip for upgraders. Plus the cost of the drives is such that it should be cheaper to use one 160GB drive than a 60 and an 80, etc.

Both the Toshiba and the Pioneer run 5.x – I think the Toshiba is 5.1.x and the Pioneer is 5.2.x. I don’t know if the Toshiba has LBA48 support or not. Getting it to run on a standard S2 is probably mostly an issue of beta testing and verification. There really aren’t any new features in 5.x that I can see – that don’t relate to DVDs. Maybe it is just a branch for integrated DVD units. The Pioneer does record in a different (DVD compliant) format, but the Toshiba doesn’t – so that’s not inate to 5.x. Different encoders are used, but that should just be a module in the code.

The new HDTV DirecTiVo also has LBA48 support – but that’s in a branch of 3.1 they created just for that unit. It is branched from the standard DTV software build, with a new kernel to support the larger (250GB) drive they use.

]]> By: buranhttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2004/02/25/40-hour-unit-149-with-rebate-and-new-news/comment-page-1/#comment-102 buran Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:25:32 +0000 http://www.tivolovers.com/2004/02/25/40-hour-unit-149-with-rebate-and-new-news/#comment-102 No reason it couldn't be multiple drives, also.What's different about the Pioneer ones that the rest of the boxes don't get? It's never made sense to me that 5.x is out there but doesn't load onto the regular Tivo S2 boxes. No reason it couldn’t be multiple drives, also.

What’s different about the Pioneer ones that the rest of the boxes don’t get? It’s never made sense to me that 5.x is out there but doesn’t load onto the regular Tivo S2 boxes.

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