Bob in Jersey wrote: > While they wait on the appeal in their case against Dish Network, the > DVR firm seeks action against Verizon and AT&T in regard to three > patents central to a digital-recording capability inherent in FiOS and > U-verse: > > http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aNMTG0WgrQmE > > [geek legal thread] So, in contrast to my previous post this week about BSD Unix (and Mach) origins in the iPhone and ipod Touch, the Tivo Units are largely based on Linux. However, they compartmentalised some of their proprietary stuff and included hardware checking - now called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
However, as you would usually expect, a brilliant programmer (i.e. good-hacker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell ) removed a hard drive from his tivo and reverse-engineered it to figure out how to get it to work is AUS using PAL instead of NTSC. He also created a truckload of tools for tivo hacking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo_Community_Forum ...and my tivo stocks are still up with each suit. [end geek legal thread] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
