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TiVo
- Thread starter Timbo
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I built my own.
I don't have a (wired) home telephone, so TiVo was not an option (you need to have it connected to a phone line, and pay for subscriptions to get the tv guide data).
For less than $500, I have a set-top 3GHz linux machine with 350G of storage, hardware mpeg encoding and decoding, and 2 gigs of RAM. It'll do everything a TiVo does, and (much) more. I can record more than 150 hours of highest resolution video, or 350+ hours of what TiVo calls high resolution, or 500+ hours of "watchable, but you wouldn't want to burn it to dvd" video. ...oh, and the DVD burner is also built in, so if I want to save a show to disk, I can do it right there on the same machine. It'll also play DVDs, VCDs, etc...
- briand
I don't have a (wired) home telephone, so TiVo was not an option (you need to have it connected to a phone line, and pay for subscriptions to get the tv guide data).
For less than $500, I have a set-top 3GHz linux machine with 350G of storage, hardware mpeg encoding and decoding, and 2 gigs of RAM. It'll do everything a TiVo does, and (much) more. I can record more than 150 hours of highest resolution video, or 350+ hours of what TiVo calls high resolution, or 500+ hours of "watchable, but you wouldn't want to burn it to dvd" video. ...oh, and the DVD burner is also built in, so if I want to save a show to disk, I can do it right there on the same machine. It'll also play DVDs, VCDs, etc...
- briand
briand said:I built my own.
I don't have a (wired) home telephone, so TiVo was not an option (you need to have it connected to a phone line, and pay for subscriptions to get the tv guide data).
For less than $500, I have a set-top 3GHz linux machine with 350G of storage, hardware mpeg encoding and decoding, and 2 gigs of RAM. It'll do everything a TiVo does, and (much) more. I can record more than 150 hours of highest resolution video, or 350+ hours of what TiVo calls high resolution, or 500+ hours of "watchable, but you wouldn't want to burn it to dvd" video. ...oh, and the DVD burner is also built in, so if I want to save a show to disk, I can do it right there on the same machine. It'll also play DVDs, VCDs, etc...
- briand
Ooo Burn. Yea, I can do that to... I just haven't hooked it up.
even if you can live without television, the tivo is great. i don't watch much tv, (sportscenter, evening news, football games and esteban commercials), but i still find it great.
when i'm away at school (as i am now), i really miss the tivo. i hate commercials.
when i'm away at school (as i am now), i really miss the tivo. i hate commercials.
