Hello All, I have a Tivo, it's the best thing since sliced bread....... My wife the technophobe can't think of living without it.....
You have the price of the box, which in my case came with the satelite system I have for an extra $50. If you want the ability for the recorder to search for programs it's an extra $4.95 a month for the schedule. How this works is you can enter a directors or actor, actress' name, movie title, or subject, etc. in to the Tivo and it goes out and searches for them and then records them for you(Insights dvr doesn't do this). Also you can get a "season pass" on the Tivo and it will reocrd all the episodes of one show, for example if your a Sopranos fan, you select Sopranos in the menu and them select "season pass" either all shows or just first run and it records either only the new shows or records it anytime it's on(Insights dvr doesn't do this!). Basically as I understand it the Insight DVR is basically a VCR but digital..... Plus Tivos are a dual tuner, so you can watch one program and tivo another, or tivo 2 programs(Insights dvr doesn't do this either!). And on top of all that it records live tv so you can pause and play back if you get a phone call run to the bathroom or go get something to eat or drink(Insights dvr does this!)..... Well worth the money....... We don;t even watch live tv any more, zip through commmercials, and watch progrmas when we want....on OUR schedule... John > 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 > > 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> > | 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>
