RE: ShowShifter vs. TiVo

["Amar Nagi" <amar@xxxxxxx>]

you tivo guys are hard line bunch aren't you ?

i am not archiving but welcome the opportunity of being portable.
i can record a show - and watch it when and where i can.
be that on my laptop on a plane, be that at a friends house.
i can master onto dvd or svcd, vcd or hell even vhs whatever takes my fancy

and largely depending on the what i want to watch.
that suits me fine. 
>From what i am hearing with tivo you don't have this
and from what someone mentioned about law suits in the usa, you never
will.





-----Original Message----- 
From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Fri 24/05/2002 15:56 
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx 
Cc: 
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] ShowShifter vs. TiVo


      Yes, but only if the DVD player actually
supports that, which older and cheaper ones do not therefore negating the
whole point of doing it as almost every home has a VHS! So for recording
something for someone could be a very hit & miss affair if you archive
them off to VCD.
       
      So what you are really doing is archiving
for your own needs which is entirely different to doing it for a neighbour
or a friend as you have the facilities to use that technology right now,
most “normal” people do not have that facility or don’t know and
don’t care if they have. Whereas my plan is to get a way to archive off
to DVD, but then I really want 5.1 surround too, which I cannot get from
any off-air transmissions for now and AFAIK, Sky will only broadcast
certain stuff in 5.1 before anyone goes there. Needless to say the stuff I
want will not be in 5.1…known as Sod’s Law!
       
      But then, I can’t seem to find the time to
watch any more than a few hours TV a week so having a huge archive of
off-air stuff is of little use to me other than very specific
programming.
       
      In any case, who has the time for that
nonsense of encoding it to a VCD anyway? ;-)
       
      K.
       
      -----Original Message-----
      From: Amar Nagi [mailto:amar@xxxxxxx] 
      Sent: 24 May 2002 15:45
      To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
      Subject: RE: [ukha_d] ShowShifter vs.
TiVo
       
      why would you want to watch vcd on a pc

      when you can play it in a dvd player and
watch on your tv :-)

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