[BC] Dumping POTS line //TIVO Option

[Bernie Courtney]

If you're serious about recording TV then build your own home theatre PC
(HTPC).  I have one that runs the SageTV software (www.sage.tv) that has 5
Tuners in it.  2 HDTV, and 3 NTSC.  it records all the programs I wasn't (in
a standard MPEG2 format), as its recording a utility runs in the background
that automatically creates an edit list to remove the commercials and strips
them out, so they dont playback.  And if I want to burn something to DVD i
just drag and drop the MPEG file into DVD creator, or if I want to email
something i just convert it over to WMA, etc.

If I desire I can use this box as my server and stream any of the tuners
over a network to other PCs (connected to TVs preferably) in the house to
watch live programs, or playback ones that are already recorded.

Bernie

On 2/28/06, PeterH5322 <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com> wrote:
>
>
> >dump the TIVO and get a real DVR
>
> If you want to archive the programs, yes, a real DVR, one with a build-in
> DVD recorder, is the way to go as it already encodes the program, and
> formats the files in .VOB format, and can transfer the program(s) to a
> DVD very quickly.
>
> ReplayTV, and perhaps others, requires the data stream to be reencoded
> for DVDs, and for you to perform an off-line authoring step which is very
> time consuming.
>
> In the case of ReplayTV, the really nice features, Commercial Skip (CS),
> and Internet Video Sharing (IVS) are crippled as soon as you register
> your unit, even if you buy a current one and intentionally downgrade the
> firmware to that level which CS and IVS are supported.
>
> The only way to prevent the RTV from being crippled is to operate a
> ReplayTV DNS (domain name server) which will ape RTV's site, and refuse
> the forced download.
>
> Such a DNS can also provide a highly tailored channel guide, including
> satellite channels ... foreign ones, too ... which the RTV channel guide
> cannot, and will not do.
>
> There is a well-known media giant, one which has its headquarters on the
> Chicago River, which provides a very good alternative channel guide,
> providing your residence address is "outside the United States".
>
> Yet, I had no trouble registering with that site.
>
>
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