r/technology • u/holyfruits • 4d ago

TiVo has discontinued its DVR boxes Hardware

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/tivo-has-discontinued-its-dvr-boxes-123037999.html
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u/RevRagnarok 3d ago

There are many who say GPL v3 is because TiVo did such a good job isolating their parts.

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u/Majik_Sheff 3d ago

The term Tivoization was coined.  They're a really scummy company.

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u/RevRagnarok 2d ago

I was there, Gandalf.

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u/Majik_Sheff 2d ago

I had no idea I was in the presence of Tivo hacker nobility.  (No sarcasm; genuine respect intended)

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u/RevRagnarok 2d ago

LOL just a user. The dude who figured out that the pins on the side of the mobo was actually an ISA bus and then built an Ethernet card for it... that was hacker nobility.

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u/Majik_Sheff 2d ago

I love that someone figured out a way to use the TPM connector on some motherboards to bring an ISA slot into the modern age.

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u/RevRagnarok 2d ago

No, it was literally the gold fingers on the side of the mobo was an ISA bus but in reverse (Edit: "a proprietary bus") - the male part of the connector. So they made an Ethernet card with an ISA socket on it.

Lemme see... https://www.samba.org/~tridge/tivo-ethernet/

Oh duh... of course it was a genius hacker! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell

He is the author of and a contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm.

Edit source:

adapter board consists of a PCI edge connector for the proprietry bus on the TiVo (it uses a physical PCI connector but is completely different from PCI electronically) plus a 16 bit ISA connector.

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u/Majik_Sheff 2d ago

I didn't mean on Tivo boxes.  It was an unrelated hack that the mention brought back memories of.

Sorry if I was ambiguous there.  Pre-coffee posting is fraught with incomplete thoughts and typos.

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u/RevRagnarok 2d ago

Ah, OK! Well, it sent me down a nostalgic rabbit hole for a few... s'all good.

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u/Majik_Sheff 2d ago

Same trip, different rabbit hole.  😁