Tuesday, May 08, 2007
I miss my TIVO :-(
The DIRECTV TIVO I've had for a few years was starting to death spiral .... it would crash occasionally ... one of the tuners wasn't working right ... finally gave DIRECTV a call. At first they wanted to send me a new DVR and charge me $20 for shipping ... after I said "Gee that's funny ... DISH Network is going to give me a DVR for free and install it" all of the sudden the $20 charge turned into a $60 credit.
Installed the new DIRECTV branded DVR this weekend. It's not a TIVO ... It's not the same. I miss the automatic suggested recording that TIVO did .... the menu navigation was much crisper ..... there was plenty of audio feedback when pressing buttons (bee doop, bee doop.)
The DIRECTV DVR is like a cheap knock-off.
#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 9:12 PM
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Wait, people still watch TV that doesn't come from the Internet? That's so 20th century. :)
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Was thinking of using the OLD DTV TIVO as an IPTV box ..... just seems like a lot of work. If I could find an inexpensive and QUIET x86 box I would use that instead.
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Rob Roschewsk @ 8:23 AM
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An old laptop with TV-out works well. You can run MythTV on it (or just the MythTV front-end connected to a MythTV back-end on another machine in the house), and use something like the Gyration Media Center Remote to control it. Or whatever the Windows/Mac equivalent functions are.