Thought the latest suggestion was that Tivo was going under soon. I'm not very up to date on Tivo, but if it's anything like ReplyTV, the devices become paperweights when the company goes under.
Otherwise ReplayTV is very very cool. Another reason for the TV tuner cards being better is that there's no subscription to pay every month. I seem to recall Tivo had a lifetime option at one point. There's no reason to tie your TV to your computer btw. Although I've not got around to setting it up, I bought a Hauppage card which has both a TV in and a TV out. It'll take me a bit of effort to get it going as I want to use it on Linux with http://www.mythtv.org/ and the baby doesn't give me much time to hack with machines. MythTV looks pretty sweet. Mp3 player, photo slideshow, computer-game emulator, check the internet news via RSS, and all the various video features you'd expect. The card was the WinTV-PVR-350 and seems the best supported under Linux. This may mean that the drivers for the Mac are equally well established. The Win in WinTV is not very relevant. http://www.hauppage.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html They also have the PVR-250, which is the same card but without the TV in. A friend of mine has a 350 in the attic, a separate machine next to it with 4 TB's of hard drive space (yes...Tera!), and a machine downstairs near the television with a 250 in it. If you don't want the machine near the tv, you can get a wireless tv-signal system of some kind, or just run the wires a bit further. Sorry it's a lot of vague info, I'm only just starting to dangle my toes into this whole thing. Hen On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alex Whitman wrote: > Why is EyeTV (or any other TV tuner card) better than a Tivo? The new > Tivo's I drooled over at Sam's Club a couple of weeks ago have a DVD > burner built in, and would allow me to watch on my bigger TV instead > of my smaller computer screen. What's the advantage of tying your TV > viewing to your computer? (I like to surf the web and watch TV at the > same time -- they are just about the only things I can successfully > multitask -- but I still can't watch The Daily Show and West Wing > reruns at the same time.) > > Idly wondering which one I should ask Santa Claus for... > > Alex Whitman > Louisville, KY > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
