T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
1. New TiVoI just started playing with freevo that comes with my Mandrake 10.1 distribution. So far it's interesting looking, but I haven't been able to do anything useful with it yet.
+ $100ish for about the same capacity I have now (a little less)
+ It Just Works
+ Easy to add a new drive and connect to network
- Probably can't transfer lifetime service to a new box anymore
- Hacking docs are scattered/inconsistent/stale/now-404
- The Peanut (The Sony series 2 seems to have died off)
- Single tuner =(
- Video extraction requires Windows and is DRM'd to hell
- HDTiVo? hahaha
- Cablecard TiVo? hahaha
On the other hand, I've had a ReplayTV for about two years, and have very good things to say about them. I now have three of them, and they "just work".
I've upgraded several drives in several different units. There are open source tools for doing things like upgrading the drives, creating a completely new drive and downloading the shows to your PC.
I've written a shell script that converts the downloaded mpg to a dvd iso for burning. Seems to work wonderfully.
There are good deals on many different models on Ebay. Including some of the early models that don't require activation.
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