RE: Home Video Server?

[Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Agreed.

a TiVo is a single purpose device.

A Home Entertaiment system built around PC's and Servers allows you to do
what you like, where you like, when you like.

I dislike subscriptions intensly. I dont object to paying for content in
principle, I object to HAVING to pay for content that I am unable or
unwilling to watch. SKY sell me dozens of channels and keep edging the
subscription ever higher. Of all the channels available my viewing is
limited to about 12. I can still only watch or record one. Admitedly the
new
SKY box will allow a second to be recorded, but does it allow simultaneous
viewing of TWO channels?

It will cost about £250 to buy, then £10 per month. For the about same cost
I could get a second digibox and just have the family package on that one.

When I had Analogue I had 4 receivers off my Astra/Hotbird dish and could
select ANY channel on ANY receiver...apart from Encrypted SKY where I only
had one card. I was paying £23-99 for movies but not getting to watch any
because there was always something else on SKY. I changed to two
Multichannels cards for £11-99 each and was able to watch more SKY for the
same money (actually a penny less!).


Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Video Server?



--- 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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