RE: ShowShifter vs. TiVo

["James, Daniel" <daniel.james@xxxxxxx>]

my 2p worth

 

I would go with the Tivo, having looked at both solutions the Tivo is the neatest, and I would have thought the most reliable and SWMBO friendly too :-)

 

Personally I am a toy ban at the moment, so don't have either :-( But SWMBO liked the Tivo Idea when we discussed it the other week.

 

Daniel

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 May 2002 11:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] ShowShifter vs. TiVo

Nik,

 

Buy the TiVo, you won’t regret it and I don’t need to list the converts so far….they know who they are! ;-)

 

K.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nikola Kasic [mailto:nikola@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 May 2002 11:09
To: Home automation (E-mail)
Subject: [ukha_d] ShowShifter vs. TiVo

 

I am considering buying TiVo.

However, I discovered Showshifter recently. Now I would like to compare those two products:

- Tivo is all in single package

- If I install ShowShifter on PC and have TV tuner card and VGA with TV out card, then it should be similar like TiVo.

I already have DigiGuide subscription and ShowShifter can record directly from DigiGuide, so I have the same functionality like TiVo.

It seems that ShowShifter supports all the "TiVo" features like live program pause etc...

Again, because it's Windows machine, HDD upgrade, ethernet connection etc is all much easier to implement. All that breaks TiVo's warranty so there's no advantage buying TiVo for that.

So, my only concern there is: Picture quality.

Because RF signal there comes in TV tuner card, is processed by PC, and is converted to video signal I wonder if this is watchable.

Showshifter says that it's for watching TV on your PC, but I don't really want to watch it on the PC, I want to watch it on TV.

My experience with any VGA to PAL converters was very disappointing. 

Does anyone use ShowShifter and watches it on TV? 

What's the picture quality?

Nik 

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