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RE: Home Video Server?
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: RE: Home Video Server?
- From: Ian Lowe <ian@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 02:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Mike Griffiths <mike@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why not stop worring about all this and by a TiVo ?
>
> Mike Griffiths
Because a TiVo, whilst being a computer at heart, is not flexible.
You cannot move the programs you record from one machine to another, or
archive them without losing storage capacity. You can't watch the video
on another machine, except by video distribution, and when it comes
right down to it, the TiVo is just too darn tight on space!
I just don't get the TiVo. If someone could bodge it's firmware to give
it ethernet, so that other systems could play the video back, decrypt
the filestore so that it was non-proprietary, and add basic utils to
allow larger HDDs/remote servers etc then it might be interesting.
Putting the IBM Capture chipset that it uses on a PCI Card on the other
hand would be even better!
Ian.
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>+++
Ian R Lowe. Director, Wintermute Consultancy Ltd.
e-mail: ian@xxxxxxx
Onward and Upward! Towards Ascension!
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