I wrote up some thoughts. Any corrections, additions and comments are
welcome.
http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000840.html
TiVo is actually great fun in the UK at the moment (if your a techie).
TiVo are still producing the EPG data it's just that you can't buy the
boxes any more. TiVo are also still adding quite a lot of data to the
standard EPG data that comes from the channel which links together
shows, episodes, repeats, directors, actors, writers etc. etc. to allow
you to record any combination of these things. Saying that, I am
starting to see the public feeds from channels having this sort of data
slowly added. TiVo HQ used to do all this manually.
There is a very large hacker community for the UK TiVo. After buying
mine off e-bay I have replaced the 40GB HD with a 300GB one and added an
after market network card. People have now written web interfaces for
it (which means that I can now control my TiVo from anywhere in the
world) as well as WAP interfaces, e-mail reminders and of course being
able to rip the recordings off or watch them streamed over the Internet.
Dan (currently stuck in the USA and living off TiVo) :-)
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