Weaknees, a company that sells upgraded TiVos and services to upgrade your PVR, is offering a $25,000 bounty to the hacker who figures out how to improve the new DirecTV PVR, which is crufted and crippled up with anti-customer measures.
Implementation: The solution must enable the R15 DIRECTV DVR Plus to operate using a hard drive (or hard drives) with capacities greater than 160GB, and to recognize the full capacity of the drives.
Reliability: The solution should survive software updates to the R15 and should not cause other features of the R15 to malfunction or be disabled.
Features: We will pay more for solutions with special features, such as the ability to add a second drive, the ability to move programming from a 160GB drive to a larger drive (but NOT from one DVR to another), and the ability to move settings from a 160GB drive to a larger drive. We are specifically NOT looking for solutions that will bypass the security or digital rights management features in the R15, and we are not looking for any solution that would require modification of the R15's motherboard. Further, we will not consider any solution that has the effect of enabling the user to avoid DVR service fees.
(Thanks, Michael!)
