If you
look through the TiVo news groups you will see that they have hacked the
ethernet
problem
And
can
stream off the box
As for
space
http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum12/HTML/001153.html
Mike Griffiths
-----Original
Message-----
From: Ian Lowe
[mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tue 03 April 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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