TiVo Owners Uncover Storage Hack

Owners of Series3 high-definition TiVos will soon be able to expand the amount of programming they can store on the digital video recorder using an external Serial ATA hard drive. While the SATA ports have been on the TiVo since the beginning, a hack to activate them only surfaced over the weekend.

Hard drives up to 750GB in size have been reported to work with Series3 TiVo, which normally stores only 30 hours of high-definition programming. The feature requires pressing pause and 62 on the TiVo remote. Coincidentally, the code leaked out shortly after CableLabs, which certifies CableCARD devices like the TiVo, changed their policy such that the use of external storage does not affect certification.