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    Tivo Premiere: upgrade capacity and output questions

    Dear Weaknees,
    I just upgraded from my old Series 2, which I had previously upgraded about 2 years ago using your TiVo 240080 TiVo Upgrade Kit: (Add one 1 TB hard drive and Advanced Cooling Pak). Now I have two Tivo Premieres. I suppose I will take my old series 2 in to Bestbuy for recycling, but I was just curious if I could save the hard drive for any purpose, such as increasing the capacity in one of the Premieres?

    Second question that Tivo support could not help me with, but not a Weaknees question - maybe you know anyway. I would like to connect the second Tivo to my projector using the HDMI cable. I did that and then I also connect audio out to my receiver/amplifier using standard audio cables. When the Tivo booted, the picture showed nicely on the projector until it finished the initial sequence, then the screen went blank. Wondering if this is a HDMI copy protection problem due to the audio cables. Unfortunately there is not a audio out port on my projector. Any other way to fix this? Alternatively, I have to use component cables from Tivo to receiver to projector, which may not be as good a picture (but maybe no difference, I suppose). Thanks
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    Hi--

    First, FYI, we have a TiVo Recycling Service, see:

    TiVo Recycle

    As for your Premiere, the drive in your TiVo now is programmed for that TiVo. You'd have to get it reprogrammed to work as an internal drive in a Premiere.

    I don't think the problem is with copy protection. Are you sure you are outputting in 1080i or 720p or something your projector can actually interpret?

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      Originally posted by WK-Jeff View Post
      Hi--

      First, FYI, we have a TiVo Recycling Service, see:

      TiVo Recycle

      As for your Premiere, the drive in your TiVo now is programmed for that TiVo. You'd have to get it reprogrammed to work as an internal drive in a Premiere.

      I don't think the problem is with copy protection. Are you sure you are outputting in 1080i or 720p or something your projector can actually interpret?
      Thanks! That was the problem.
      Kind of strange, and I'll post the result here in case anyone else runs across this. I had used the Tivo resolution testing routine to see which outputs would be supported by my projector. It seemed that it would work with the Tivo putting out 480, 720 or 1080, so I left all of those "checked". But it would never work with a recording (only using the HDMI cable). But, when I unchecked the 480 and 720, just leaving 1080 as the only option, now it works with all recordings.

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