Hacking the TiVo
by William von Hagen
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Author: William von HagenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-08-11
ISBN: 1592001114
Number of pages: 424
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Book Reviews of Hacking the TiVo
Book Review: 2nd Edition is a Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
I have recently had the opportunity to read Bill von Hagen's updated (2nd Edition) book "Hacking the Tivo 2nd Edition". I read the original (1st edition) some time ago (09-18-2003) which is an eternity in internet time. There has been a lot change since then TiVo wise.
Overall impression:
Bill has done an excellent job bringing the book up to date with modern hacking techniques and tools.
Overall this book would make a GREAT book for newbies and an excellent reference book for experienced users. It contains a wealth of data/information that is very useful and is presented in a clear concise easy to read format. If you are a newbie this book will save you a lot of searching though threads for the single post that makes sense.
Likes:
Bill continues his excellent writing style. The flow of this book, like the first, is real good. Embeem who has a known history was the Technical Reviewer for the 1st edition and Musclenerd was listed as the Technical reviewer of this edition so I can say that I would trust its content. The book is interspersed throughout the book with many "Tips". I like this format. I found quite a few of these to be very good and thought provoking. There were a lot of questions that I never thought to ask but are good to know like "where did the TiVo come from?" This book answers many of the "not asked" questions.
It is relatively Up to date considering the "internet age" we are living in.
Bill devotes and entire chapter on "Extracting, Inserting, and Playing Tivo Recordings" something that I don't think any other book does. He presents subjects like mfs_ftp, tytool, tystudio, mplayer, etc. This is great information.
Dislikes:
Like the first edition I can't say there was much I didn't like about this book.
Summary of Hacking the TiVo
This book provides a central, readable, and detailed guide to upgrading, maintaining, and enhancing TiVo systems. Most of the procedures described in the book can be done by anyone who is comfortable with opening and upgrading their computer system. Hacking the Tivo explains how to install new hardware, freely obtain the software used in upgrades, and how to upgrade TiVo from any Linux or Windows PC. This book also contains other chapters that provide detailed operating system and hardware upgrade information for more experienced users who are comfortable working with system software and operating systems. The book explains how to obtain the operating system source code, how to build and enhance the operating system, and how to log in on and use the TiVo as a computer system. In addition to the valuable content within this book, with its purchase comes a CD that includes the following: ?Utilities for backing up and restoring TiVo disks. ?Utilities for creating and blessing new disks for the TiVo. ?Utilities for cloning existing TiVo disks. ?A utility for enabling backdoors on current TiVo Series 2 systems. ?Pre-packaged sets of Linux utilities for Series 1 and Series 2 TiVos. No more searching the web and rolling your own. ?Pre-packaged cross-compilers that produce TiVo binaries on Linux systems. Both Series 1 and Series 2 compilers are included. ?Popular TiVo-side servers such as TiVoWeb, an FTP daemon, and a Telnet daemon, ready to run on Series 1 and Series 2 TiVos.Hackers Books
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