I found this little program called DVArchive that turns your computer into a virtual ReplayTV device so you can download shows from any ReplayTV 4XXX or 5XXX series DVR. This makes burning DVD/VCD's from your ReplayTV DVR a cinch. You can also play shows from your ReplayTV right on your desktop and play shows that are stored on your computer right from your ReplayTV/TV screen. Now if only there was such a simple program that I could use with my TiVo... anyone?

The guys over at 9th Tee enterprises, Inc, have released a new version of their TiVo CacheCARD. Now it comes with a built in Network Interface and just by installing this card you increase UI speeds up to 50%. The best part, if already have a TurboNET card occupying that space, they are offering a rebate to upgrade.

Except from their site:
"Caching - The Tivo database is large (512MB) and every user-interface operation goes back to hard drive to read from the database - the same hard drive that is already busy reading and writing multiple high bit-rate video streams.  The CacheCARDTM caches the entire database in high speed SDRAM so all database reads can be fulfilled instantly, rather than joining the queue for access to the hard drive.  Database writes go directly to the hard drive so the Tivo database is always protected and is up-to-date on the hard drive."

Exactly this time last year I started modding my DVD player for SDI out... it was a pretty exciting project. I originally posted it on the AVS Forum under "Poorman's SDI", it has since received over 16,000 views and it's still going strong. I just finished modding a friends Pioneer DV-F07 DVD changer, going to drop it off Thursday night. Read up and maybe you will want to add SDI to your player!