Re: Tivo

[Phillip Harris <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Virgin are now doing their own Tivo box...

...it's a bit - erm - "special" at the moment. ;-)

Phil

On 5 Feb 2011, at 19:19, Simon McCaughey wrote:

> Charles,
>
> We had a TiVo/xbmc setup for years, although I never managed to get
the Tv streamed to the xboxes. Family all loved it etc, but a couple of
years ago TiVo began to creek a bit with the occasional freeze and out of
sync a/v.
>
> I took the plunge at that time and moved to windows media center
(vista at that time, now windows 7)
>
> I would suggest trying it, you have to accept that it's not a
TiVo/xbmc setup and therefore there will be differences.
>
> We run a main machine in the living room, 2x freeview tuners and we
also have 2 extenders in other rooms. Family acceptance has been high, and
even though it's not nearly as good a media player as xbmc it does the job
and in our case has been maintenance  free.
>
> I would suggest trying it. One piece of advice is to treat it like a
TiVo rather than a PC - don't go installing a pile of rubbish on it - only
what you need. Sometimes our kids ask if they can use it as a browser, and
I always tell them no chance
>
> Hope that helps a bit...
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
>
> On 5 Feb 2011, at 10:02, "charles" <charles@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>> Charles
>
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