On Monday 07 November 2005 11:53, James C. Dastrup wrote: > Although the Yahoo portal for your Tivo is new, this feature, with the > minimum 1-hour in advance, > has been around for a while at tivo.com. Slowly, the canned and > subscription DVR's are > listening to what people really want. But I don't understand why they > won't just put a simple > web interface on their own devices. > MCE has a similar feature - logon to msn.com and schedule a recording, > but no remote access > directly to your MCE from a browser. > Reasons like this are why we all love our MythTV.
I'd say it's pretty likely that the lack of a web interface in 'canned' DVR appliances has more to do with security/liability issues. It's much more secure for the DVR to query a remote web site every hour than it is to have an open web server running on the DVR appliance. After all, the average consumer may not have a firewall, etc, etc... Imagine the negative publicity and possible lawsuits that would arise if a default web server configuration on a Tivo or MCE was found to have an exploitable security flaw? At least with MythWeb, the user has to set up & configure their own web server. It's not much of a hurdle, but at least any security issues are entirely the user's own responsibility. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
