Category Archives: Scientific Atlanta

Interesting TiVo mention

Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 by MegaZone

SearchNetworking.com has an article about Cisco’s movies into the IP video market which contains a couple of TiVo mentions: Second, the Scientific Atlanta deal helped Cisco find an ally in TiVo, the digital video recording company. “The combination of Scientific … Continue reading →

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Adding eSATA to your TiVo HD

Posted on Sunday, September 9, 2007 by MegaZone

While the eSATA ports on the Series3 and TiVo HD are not scheduled to be officially enabled until ‘later this year’, Series3 owners have been able to attach eSATA drives for a while now using the Kickstart 62 back door. … Continue reading →

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Save 25% on an eSATA drive for your TiVo Series3

Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 by MegaZone

Sure, the eSATA port on the Series3 isn’t officially activated yet, but if you like living on the edge you can use the ‘Kickstart 62‘ back door to use it. One of the recommended drives for this is the Western … Continue reading →

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Intel does a 180 on OpenCable – and more OCAP news

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 by MegaZone

As recently as November, 2006 Intel was opposed to the licensing terms for OCAP (the OpenCable Application Platform) and they opposed requiring consumer electronics (CE) vendors to support OCAP in general for two-way cable services. Well, things change, and apparently … Continue reading →

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Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 can’t cope with leap year

Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 by MegaZone

I first spotted this in PVRBlog, which pointed me at this Slashdot entry. Apparently the SA8000 has a firmware bug and it can’t handle leap year. On 2/23, when the 7 days of guide data hit 2/29, the units all … Continue reading →

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