I was think of buying a new video recorder after Her in Doors broke the last one. Then I saw the Thomson TiVo PVR player but the only thing putting me off was the fact that the TiVo harddrive was 20gig which is good for 12 hours worth of playback. I needed something bigger.

So I did some digging around and I found a great article @ Washingtonpost.com called Breaking It Open, Making It Better!

People with the curiosity and technical expertise often crack open the cases to find out what goes on inside those mysterious gizmos -- and sometimes make them work better.

Two products in particular have become popular with hackers lately: the ReplayTV and TiVo "personal video recorders." These VCR-like machines save and play back television programming using hard drives rather than videotape. By adding a larger hard drive to a Replay or TiVo, a hacker can double or even quadruple the number of shows their PVR can record -- a $250 drive can boost an older Replay box's capacity from 20 hours to 80. Some hackers go even further with tricks like adding an Ethernet card for networking to a computer or enabling PAL-format video output for use in other countries.

Breaking It Open, Making It Better

Information about Modding TiVo

Information about Modding ReplayTV