“I can’t complain about my TiVo anymore. Not since I learned how to make it skip commercials by jumping forward 30 seconds at a time, just like I can with my UltimateTV and ReplayTV boxes. Of course, TiVo can’t do this right out of the box–and it probably never will. But the nice programmers left a backdoor open for those of us willing to join the ranks of TiVo hackers.”
“As with any good hacking article (and this will only be a fair one), I should warn you up front that proceeding further could render your TiVo useless, void your warranty, violate all sorts of end-user licensing agreements, and, in extreme cases, kill you (if you happen to touch the unshielded power supply inside the box while having an especially unlucky day). That caveat out of the way, let me tell you how I got started down this road to hackerdom…”
Click here, TiVo users, to read on.
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