Can you use a DiercTv TiVo as a normal TiVo?

[AndrewRosenstein]

This may sound stupid, but is there a way to bypass the satellite reciever end of the TiVo and just run a regular TV signal into it and record that?

[BTUx9]

nope... directivos have neither tuners nor encoders

[AndrewRosenstein]

Great. Thanks.

[Da Goon]

You could sell it on Ebay (for probably more than you'd expect these days) or hack it for use as a media server on your home network. You wouldn't be able to make new "live" recordings of course, but you can copy video from your pc to the tivo without a directv subscription if you use the right tools.

[AndrewRosenstein]

can you point me to a link that would show me how to turn it into a server?

[litzdog911]

can you point me to a link that would show me how to turn it into a server?

Just search here for "zipper".