RE: DIY TIVO?

[pmiller@xxxxxxx]

I have 3 x ATI all in wonder 128 pros and their an excellent card, BUT they
lack decent sw and mpeg 2 encoding hw to be taken seriously as a digital
vcr
IMO. I too have been eyeing up the RADEON as this seems to offer everything
on a plate, yet to see one in the flesh though.

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: steve [mailto:steve@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 February 2001 22:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] DIY TIVO?


I was interested to read about Tivo hacking somewhere and learn that its
basically a L***X machine.

Steve.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:51 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] DIY TIVO?


> Has anybody seen the spec for the new ATI All-in-Wonder RADEON card,
and
> thought about using this instead of a "proper" Tivo box?
>
> It retails for between £180-£220 (depending on where you shop!)
>
> Apart from sounding like a new whizzo washing powder, it includes all
the
> usual All-in-Wonder features, EG TV tuner on-board, Video-in,
Video-out,
> MPEG decoder etc. etc. It also has (IIRC) 32MB of DDR SDRAM, but more
> importantly, includes Tivo-like software, enabling it to be used in
just
the
> same way as a Tivo, IE: Pause Live TV, Instant replay, record to HDD
etc,
> and probably best-of all includes a subscription-free TV guide
service...
>
> The full specs are here:
> http://www.ati.com/uk/pages/products/pc/aiw_radeon/index.html
>
> If this were used as the heart of a custom DIY Tivo solution, then
provided
> it was well executed, it strikes me it has the potential to be better
than
a
> "real" Tivo, for less money. - And you can expand the disk
capacity as
much
> as you like....
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Paul G.
>
>
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