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!)
I used to suffer form this same problem, it got to the stage where
the
sky box was locking up almost daily. Unfortunately just resetting the box
doesn't
work as it comes back on on standby.
The
solution to this is a neat product called DigiMemo which when sky box loses
power, after power up it will turn the unit on and change to a channel of
your
choice. So no I just have homeseer reboot my sky box each night. There was talk of the new remote
codes in TiVo
include the SKY button each time a command is sent, which would have the
effect
of turning the box on form standby as
well.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Doogie Brodie
[mailto:ukhad@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 May 2002
14:43
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d]
ShowShifter
vs. TiVo
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 in
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=02/04/04/1431249&mode=nested&tid=152
The amount of hassle that people seem to have
with
PC based PVRs seems
horrendous....! One of the major points I want
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