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November 05, 2004

Remaining Capacity on Series 2 TiVos

What is the best way to determine the amount of capacity remaining on a Series 2 TiVo, considering the OS doesn't inherently have this feature.
--EMG

November 5, 2004 in TiVo

Answers

You can't, without hacking it. You can use the total length of the suggestions as a rough estimate (assuming it's been running long enough to fill up with suggestions).

Posted by: Hal at Nov 7, 2004 12:57:41 PM

Like Hal said, the method most of us seem to use is to turn on TiVo Suggestions and over time the fill the space and act as a rough indicator.

Posted by: MegaZone at Nov 7, 2004 1:43:53 PM

The TiVo manual gives you the ratio of recording qualities to their storage sizes. For instance, best quality takes 3x the size of basic.

Knowing the ratios, a half hour of basic takes 372 mb. You can then figure how many hours of each you have and use the ratios to figure total used.

Posted by: Dick at Nov 19, 2004 7:42:39 AM

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