RE: Home Video Server?

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

The "increasing channels bringing reduced viewing ability"
argument has
always been what has really p'd me off about Sky too...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 April 2001 10:46
> To: ukha_d
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Video Server?
>
>
> 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.
>
> =====
> >+++
> Ian R Lowe. Director, Wintermute Consultancy Ltd.
> e-mail: ian@xxxxxxx
> Onward and Upward! Towards Ascension!
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