OH NOZ I AM DENIED MY MEDIA FIX

[rmd]

bah. my tivo appears to have toasted itself. i assume it's the drive(s). i had the GSOD (green screen of doom) the other morning, so i let it sit all day and then overnight and now it's stuck in a cycle where it restarts, gets the GSOD after a few moments of the "wait a few more moments" screen, then sits at the GSOD for a while and restarts. lather rinse repeat.

there's only one thing on the tivo that is functionally irreplacable, and honestly, it serves me right for not dumping it to tape/cd/dvd/whatever before this.

i'm letting the tivo cool for a while to see if it's capable of coming back long enough to grab the one or two things i want from it.

next up, investigating INSTACAKE.

edited to add: also, WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY TORX BITS?

Comments

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yeah, appliances are great. one of the reasons i'm not thinking about a myth-tv box is that i want minimal effort involved.

i've got a lifetime (of the box, not me) tivo service subscription, so there's no recurring cost. and it's provider-agnostic. so it's worth a bit of effort to try and get the tivo live again.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I can see how that would be worth it, but the lifetime no longer exists.Once that's gone I can't see how tivo can compete against comcast this way. 12$/ month for service plus buying a box with a 3year average lifespan vs. 14.75$/ month for rental and service makes Comcast the obvious win to me.