TiVo Community Forum Archive 1 - Swapping drives across brands and generations

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Posted by classicsat on 06-18-2004 03:01 AM:

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Originally posted by stevel

First, Series 1 and Series 2 boxes are incompatible at the software level - they use different CPU types and programs compiled for one won't run on the other.

S1s (PPC) are byteswapped. S2 aren't (MIPS).
Also they have different MPEG chips, and handle the MPEG a bit different I think.

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