Quote Originally Posted by orangehenry
Why are you not able to use a series 2 Tivo in Australia?
Typing into the OzTiVo website search engine "Series 2" shows you a few pages explaining why:

http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/sea...eb=on&regex=on

In short: You cannot because the Broadcom BCM7020 and BCM7040 chips are configured for NTSC. They CAN do PAL but because the programming literature is under lock and key (called the NDA or Non Disclosure Agreement) then nobody knows or is willing to tell any hobbyists what the information is that we need to know. If you can help then great.

And if you cant then what is the advantage of a tivo over say a HDD recorder?
1. Guide data up to 7 days in advance

2. Suggested recordings based on your habits

3. Up to almost 1TB (that's 1,000GB) of recording space if you want that with two of the current largest IDE hard disks you can buy.

4. Controllable over a network or the internet if you want to do that

5. Able to "talk" to one another over your local network if you want to share recordings or reslove conflicts (ie more than one thing to record at a time).

probably more that others can think of too.