RE: Home Video Server?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Also, this guy's experiences make interesting reading...

http://www.localbounty.com/tivo-pcpro.cfm

After reading it, - remember that Scan do coolermaster drive enclosures
that
totally enclose a HDD in a metal box, and reduces the noise considerably...

Paul G.


>From: Mike Griffiths <mike@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Video Server?
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:27:12 +0100
>
>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
><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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