John, what Satellite system do you have? I was told the same thing as you. I have not done this before, but want the German channel, so have to go with Dish, the only System that offers it. Since I don't know the Tivo from the other DVRs, are they all the same, is Tivo simply the brand name? Before I get myself into it, I want to know all the details. The guy told me it would be $ 4.95 a month, but said the box came free with the system's installation. Thanks Marta On Jan 13, 2005, at 7:07, johnstone at blackbirds.net wrote:
> Hello All, > > I have a Tivo, it's the best thing since sliced bread....... My wife > the > technophobe can't think of living without it..... > > You have the price of the box, which in my case came with the satelite > system I have for an extra $50. If you want the ability for the > recorder > to search for programs it's an extra $4.95 a month for the schedule. > How > this works is you can enter a directors or actor, actress' name, movie > title, or subject, etc. in to the Tivo and it goes out and searches for > them and then records them for you(Insights dvr doesn't do this). Also > you > can get a "season pass" on the Tivo and it will reocrd all the > episodes of > one show, for example if your a Sopranos fan, you select Sopranos in > the > menu and them select "season pass" either all shows or just first run > and > it records either only the new shows or records it anytime it's > on(Insights dvr doesn't do this!). Basically as I understand it the > Insight DVR is basically a VCR but digital..... Plus Tivos are a dual > tuner, so you can watch one program and tivo another, or tivo 2 > programs(Insights dvr doesn't do this either!). And on top of all that > it > records live tv so you can pause and play back if you get a phone call > run > to the bathroom or go get something to eat or drink(Insights dvr does > this!)..... > > Well worth the money....... We don;t even watch live tv any more, zip > through commmercials, and watch progrmas when we want....on OUR > schedule... > > John > > >> I am not familiar with the Tivo, but hear it costs $10.00 a month for >> 100 hours of copying, the other DVR using Dish is supposed to only >> cost $ 5.00. Is there no way just to pay for how much you would copy? >> I >> am in the lookout for one of those, too, because i want to add this >> German Channel and only Dish TV has it. - I am dreaming of that new >> little mac- mini, a flat screen with dish input for my German TV and a >> DVR attached as well. Does that sound ok? or am I way out here? or do >> I >> have brainrot? >> Marta >> >> On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:39, Lee Larson wrote: >> >>> On Jan 12, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Bill Rising wrote: >>> >>>> True enough, but it might be a lot less complicated and a lot less >>>> time consuming than building your own (as you already did). Of >>>> course, is there really a need to have that fast a processor in a >>>> Tivo? Then again, if it had a wireless card and bluetooth in it, it >>>> could be used to work on another networked computer while sitting in >>>> front of the TV. >>> >>> Those DVRs such as the Tivo can get away with cheap, slow processors >>> because they put the video encoding and decoding onto custom cards. >>> That's what I did in my MythTV by using a PVR-350 tuner card; it >>> handles MPEG2 on the fly while hardly bothering the processor at all. >>> >>> I think the cute little Mac might be right on the edge of what it can >>> do, if you feed it an MPEG2 stream for HDTV. It doesn't have any >>> expansion slots to add a fancy coprocessor card. On the other hand, >>> the G4 does have those AltiVec capabilities that speed up MP3 stuff >>> an >>> awful lot. This could be a whole market for Apple. >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
