I am not familiar with the Tivo, but hear it costs $10.00 a month for 100 hours of copying, the other DVR using Dish is supposed to only cost $ 5.00. Is there no way just to pay for how much you would copy? I am in the lookout for one of those, too, because i want to add this German Channel and only Dish TV has it. - I am dreaming of that new little mac- mini, a flat screen with dish input for my German TV and a DVR attached as well. Does that sound ok? or am I way out here? or do I have brainrot? Marta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cat and Mac.JPG Type: image/jpg Size: 13278 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050112/d6085d9a/attachment.jpg -------------- next part --------------
On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:39, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 12, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > >> True enough, but it might be a lot less complicated and a lot less >> time consuming than building your own (as you already did). Of >> course, is there really a need to have that fast a processor in a >> Tivo? Then again, if it had a wireless card and bluetooth in it, it >> could be used to work on another networked computer while sitting in >> front of the TV. > > Those DVRs such as the Tivo can get away with cheap, slow processors > because they put the video encoding and decoding onto custom cards. > That's what I did in my MythTV by using a PVR-350 tuner card; it > handles MPEG2 on the fly while hardly bothering the processor at all. > > I think the cute little Mac might be right on the edge of what it can > do, if you feed it an MPEG2 stream for HDTV. It doesn't have any > expansion slots to add a fancy coprocessor card. On the other hand, > the G4 does have those AltiVec capabilities that speed up MP3 stuff an > awful lot. This could be a whole market for Apple. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. 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>
