I'm loving my new TiVo, it's a really great product. I'm a little bit confused on the home networking side of TiVo though. From what I can gather, you need the Home networking kit and the Media Access Key to be able to get any networking functions working. What's the difference between the Home Networking Kit and the Media Access Key? The home networking kit is being sold for $90 AUS which just seems a ridiculous price, and there's no way I'm paying that before even being able to see how well it works.
Do you need the home networking kit to access/unlock the MAK? Or can you get the MAK seperately from the TiVo itself? It's my understnading you can use 3rd party software for transferring etc but you have to have the MAK to unlock the functionality on the TiVo. I may have that wrong.
Is there anyway of accessing some of the networking capability without having to buy the Home Networking Kit?