On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Sunny wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:24 PM, <swaite at sbn-services.com> wrote: > >> I was wondering if anyone here in the Twin Cities would happen to have >> a Tivo unit for sale that is either already hacked, or easily hackable >> (i.e. no S2 model with PROM). I have a use for a DVP that will simply >> just do that, play video files in either Tivo or Xvid, to which I can >> copy from a laptop to play on a TV. I want to get a Tivo unit because >> they are small, quiet, cheap, and all I need (hence why I am not going >> to build some MythTV unit). > > I do not know how "cheap" are TiVos, but if it is in the 200$ price > range, check popcornhour A100: > > http://www.popcornhour.com/ > > I have the unit, and it plays almost everything I throw at it. You can > add HDD to it for local storage (SMB and NFS servers build in), or it > has SMB client to play from a local share. I wonder if anyone is selling something like this for DirecTiVo (TiVo for DirecTV). Any idea? Mike