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Will these and the big channel reshuffle upset Tivo?
http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=193&id=769
Automan.
http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=193&id=769
Automan.
Sorry to be dense, but could you elaborate on this?sanderton said:I guess the only issue might be leading zeros?
scoopuk said:Well it needs to be.
The TiVo service is great at supporting recording of radio programmes, almost as important for me as the TV channels.
If the UK software needs a tweak and a minor upgrade so be it. It needs to be done by Tivo and downloaded to our boxes, not everyone is a computer hacker or IT expert, some of us mortals on here are just Tivo customers.
Remember it's TIVO boxes which are supposed to be unavailable here, not our Tivo service which we're still paying monthly for.
If they had any sense, they would include a large-drive kernel within the update.Automan said:... an automatic software upgrade would cause quite a few Tivo owners with modified hardware quite a few problems ...
... Tivo's with > 160Gb drives would fail to boot after the upgrade.
Ok, not an elegant workaround, but it could work... Could the IR codes for, for example, 0 and 1 be swapped around, and change all the channel numbers accordingly?sanderton said:Double hmm. It seems to store the channel number as an integer, ie 1-32000-ish. So while 4 figure channels are no problem, 4 figure channels beginning with a 0 are. And because the maximum is 32k, my instant though of a workaround sending an eight digit number won't work.