On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Winterlight wrote:
At 07:04 PM 3/29/2010, you wrote:
Hey Ali, so I've got two TW cable DVRs (the HD ones) and a HD Tivo up here
in LA. The HD Tivo uses cablecard and it's just like you said-it's way
cheaper for the cable card per month than the DVRs, and it works fine (I
should get rid of the DVRs...). I can't guide you on using the CC in a PC,
but the cablecard tech itself seems pretty solid and works great in my Tivo.
don't you have to pay Tivo a monthly fee though? Can you archive the stuff you
record on Tivo or is it like a cable DVR which you can't move to a hard drive.
Lifetime option available that breaks even with the monthly fee after 31
months. ($400 vs $13/mo)
Tivo Premier XL is $500
Service is $400
TiVo Desktop Plus is $25 (Transfer recordings to/from the TiVo)
Large initial investment, but you can figure your monthly fee for your DVR
and find out how long it takes to break even. I consider it worth more
than the cable DVR service due to the ability to stream netflix, etc.
As for transferring shows, TiVo listens to the copying flags sent down the
wire, so if your cable company marks them as untransferrable then the TiVo
will honor that and not allow you to transfer the files to your computer.
Annoying as hell as I have 65 episodes of Supernatural I have not gotten
around to watching yet that are taking up space on my TiVo.
YMMV in regards to that, it depends on if the cable company has those
flags turned on or not.
Christopher Fisk
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