In addition to my Zed fiddlings (ECU socketing, digital clock repairs & traction control installs) and TiVo fiddlings I've recently discovered the art of messing with mStation MP3 players, so if there are people out there with them that want them upgraded, with larger disks or newer firmware etc then I may be able to help out. Let me know ...

 

More info here :- http://www.ssiamerica.com (only they call them Neo)

Whats the maximum sized drive people have replaced in their TIVO's?

 

 

Im tempted to get one and place a 120gig drive in there if possible,

It can't address more than 137GB (without messing with the kernel), but you can put 2 x 160GB in giving you 274GB - which is lots of recording time ! Normal mod is one or two 120GB.

Excellent, 30gig is about 52hours isnt it?

 

Im tempted to get one just to record hollioakes and eastenders :D

You're a sick man !

 

40GB, which is standard, equates to approx 40 hours at lowest quality or a little under 10 at best quality. I generally default to high (the setting below best), which gives 15 hours or approx 60 hours with my 120GB disk.

Thanks andy :)

 

it will save my sunday being used for omnibus episodes with a little kip in between lol

 

hollioaks - 9.25 - 12 then eastenders from 3 - 5ish hehe

I've got an old 10 gig Mstation Andy, what does the new firmware give me ?

 

stu

Originally posted by powerlord

I've got an old 10 gig Mstation Andy, what does the new firmware give me ?

 

stu

 

According to their web page :-

 

Changes And New Features:

• Neo supports now "queue mode". While listening to a song, browse and select your next song, hold the "Play" button for two sec. over the song you choosed, it will program Neo and will queue the selected song to play after the current song.
   
  
• NEO35/Neo Car Jukebox: max 2048 songs in playlist, max 1024 in folder
  
• HIDDEN and SYSTEM folder are no longer shown in the display.
  
• Fixed bug that caused a 3 second loop (bug was in ver 1.23)
  
• Better Random support
  
• Bug that caused Neo to crash when changing songs that had very long names(this bug was in ver 1.22 only). - FIXED
  
• Bug that caused the IR remote to stop working after 10 min (this bug was in ver 1.22 only). - FIXED
  
• Titles and ID3 tags are scrolling if they do not fit into the display
  
• If the unit is turned off while playing, it resumes at the position
  where it was switched off.
  
• Processor is in SLEEP mode when not used - reduces power consumption
  
• Playlists have extension ".m3u" and show with 3 lines in icon
  
• Upon playing a playlist, "Pl.list" shows in the display
  
• 'Program' during playlist playback results in random order
  
• MPEG Layer-2 files can now be played with the extension ".mp2"
  
• IDE disabled override (some Maxtor hard-drives)
  
• A few other minor bug fixes, etc.
  

Autoplaylist

When pressing PLAY for 1 second on a directory, all titles in this directory and in all subdirectories are programmed as a playlist (up to maximum of 1024 titles). Together with PL.R (Playlist Random) will enable shuffle play on a directory with subdirectories.

 

Most noticable one for me was if the unit is turned off while playing, it resumes at the position where it was switched off. It used to be like Groundhog Day for me going to work and back - it used to skip back about 20 mins and took me about a week to hear an album all the way through ! :D lol