My apologies if this has been discussed (beaten to death) already. I am not too happy that we are forced to use My DVR Expander as the only option for additional storage with TivoHD.
I understand that Tivo made a mistake with S3 which they fixed with THD, but why? Too many calls to customer service? like they don't get called for other issues?
It would have been okay if the price was in an okay range. We pay twice for this puppy as compared to a normal 500GB WD external drive.
Now, the question. What is there which prevents us from using any other drive with THD? Is it internal to Tivo. Is THD programmed to check and allow only certain models to hook up to it? Does it need certain circuit board? Any hacks so far?
I know I can upgrade the internal drive but I just wanted to know the technical reason behind the limitation of using My DVR Expander only.
/rant
I understand that Tivo made a mistake with S3 which they fixed with THD, but why? Too many calls to customer service? like they don't get called for other issues?
It would have been okay if the price was in an okay range. We pay twice for this puppy as compared to a normal 500GB WD external drive.
Now, the question. What is there which prevents us from using any other drive with THD? Is it internal to Tivo. Is THD programmed to check and allow only certain models to hook up to it? Does it need certain circuit board? Any hacks so far?
I know I can upgrade the internal drive but I just wanted to know the technical reason behind the limitation of using My DVR Expander only.
/rant