Re: ShowShifter vs. TiVo

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

I had been thinking about building a showshifter box for quite a while. I have used Digiguide for a long time (I recently renewed to a 5 year
subscription), I used it in announcement mode... "The Simpsons is on i= n
2 minutes on Sky One".... :)
I specced out a decent box with decent size hard drives, loads of memory etc, etc and it was going to cost me somewhere in the region of a
grand..... I heard Mark evangelising about Tivo as an ex SS user (it was through him that I heard of SS in the first place), and I thought no,
I'll get a nice PC which will do everything..... then I saw Mr Tonks
selling some for 150 quid. Coincidentally, on the same day that this
story was on Slashdot:-
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D02/04/04/1431249&mo= de=3Dnested&tid=3D152

The amount of hassle that people seem to have with PC based PVRs seems
horrendous....! One of the major points I want from a PVR is
reliability.... Tivo gives me that. I occasionally have $ky Digibox
lockups which means I miss one recording every so often (must work out a "safe" time to get X10 to reboot the Sky box each night!)

Tivo is designed from the get go as a PVR. Its her job, its all she
knows how to do :)

So now I have a Tivo.... =A3350 including the lifetime subs. I'm buying my =
wee Tivo a network card so it can join the conversations on my network
(and I can use the Web interface :) ) And I'm going to buy her a nice
new harddrive to fill with things.

And SWMBO loves it! :D

As someone on another Slashdot thread said....

"But if you just want a kickass linux PVR... someone already makes it.= "

Doogie

Kenneth Watt wrote:
> Nik,
>
> Quite simply TiVo is superb at what it does and has very few flaky mom= ents I
> can count on less then one hand the number of reboots TiVo has had in = a
> year. A PC on any Windows OS the same cannot be said for.
>
> Add to that the simplistic ease of use with TiVo and you have a winner= , I
> have yet to come across anyone who has, or has used a TiVo box that wo= uld
> not recommend one and that includes the most staunchly opposed to the = idea
> of the cost. The cost I don't think is very high for what TiVo actuall= y does
> and I can almost guarantee that if you use one for a week you will pro= bably
> never watch an off-air broadcast again!

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