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In article <0iUxd.4053$by5.576@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com>,
John in Detroit <wa8yxm@do.not.spam.arrl.net> wrote:
>Ablang wrote:
>> Why Tivo When you can Freevo?
>>
>> http
/www.byopvr.com/
>
>Checking the links but on this forum
s/forum/newsgroup/g
>it's Why TIVO when you can REPLAY
Ain't crossposting grand, especially when it's done by a spammer?
>On the replay I can, for example, tell it to record all episodes of
>ALIAS and when it comes back on the air... They get recorded. (With my
>ATI card I have to specify a time and station, Now I can do that by
>clicking on ALIAS in the listings, and telling it "Every week" but what
>it will do is set up a recording event by time of day, REPLAY sets it
>up by program name so if, for example, the show is SCHEDULED an hour
>late due to some "Reality Tv" special.... The Replay knows to record, an
>hour late)
FWIW, I have both a TiVo and a MythTV box (the latter being one of the
better DIY PVR options out there at the moment). MythTV has some fairly
sophisticated scheduling options--not just "record this channel at this time
daily/weekly," but "record at any time on this channel" and "record at any
time on any channel." One edge I've found that it has over TiVo is that it
also keeps track of what episodes it has recorded. A TiVo will check the
"new/rerun" flag in its guide info and will record new episodes only or new
episodes and reruns, but this can be inconvenient if you're coming into a
series in the middle and would like to watch older eps, but don't want them
popping up more than once. With MythTV, you can set it to record each
episode as it comes up, but not fill up space with episodes you've already
seen.
I've had my TiVo for four years and it's done a great job, but it's been a
couple of weeks now since I've watched anything on it. MythTV has gotten
stable enough and featureful enough that I can move all of my TV watching
over to it without worrying about weird glitches. I printed out all of the
TiVo's season passes a few weeks ago and set up their equivalents on MythTV,
and it's grabbed everything. I'm even thinking of passing the TiVo along to
my parents since I'm not using it (it's a Series 1 with a lifetime
subscription, and it's not likely that TiVo's proposed "blipverts" when you
skip past ads will work with it).
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