On 2010-10-12 12:24 , Gregg Dinse wrote:
but the last sentence from your quote of the TiVo site says a multi-stream cablecard is needed to watch HD and digital cable channels. Am I mis-reading this?
that last paragraph is about recording multiple sources simultaneously; multi-stream is only required for that; with a single-stream cablecard, i believe you could even still record one broadcast channel simultaneously with one cable channel
If an external firewire drive works as well as the Mac Mini internal drive(s), then perhaps I should save a little money and get the non-server Mac Mini. I did not think I needed another CD/DVD drive, since I already have several of those in my audio-video setup.
well, the point being it's pretty handy if you want to RIP a CD or DVD onto your Mini, or to burn DVDs of content where it is legal to do so ...
I had figured that a lifetime TiVo subscription would be best, since it would pay for itself in about 3 years, but I did NOT realize that the subscription died with the hardware and could not be transferred to a new TiVo device! Thanks for that data point. That makes the lifetime subscription much less of a no-brainer.
yeah, i would consider warranty options with the lifetime sub; otoh, i have had three TiVos in ten years; i replaced the hard drive myself on the first one after a couple of years; that one was about 8 years old when retired; the Series 2 with lifetime sub is almost 7 years old and doing fine (we have a friend with another Series 2 whose hard drive has died); since our non-lifetime unit's subscription is grandfathered in at $7/mo, it hasn't made sense for us to upgrade it to lifetime even with a discount $300 rate available to us
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