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"Nicholas Andrade" <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Tom Scales wrote:
>> "Nicholas Andrade" <sdnick484@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:abQbe.1967$zu.775@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>>
>>
>>>That makes sense; I'm thinking of eventually setting up a MythTV box
>>>running Fedora. If I do, I'll likely go XFS on the media drives.
>>>Currently I have DirecTV w/ (a modded) Tivo. Tivo adds $5 which seems
>>>fair enough, however if the rumors turn out to be true and DTV rolls out
>>>their own proprietary DVR, I'm likely to switch to Myth.
>>
>>
>> Consider Snapstream's BeyondTV. That's what I use and it is incredible.
>> No monthly fee. You can even schedule shows with a WAP enabled
>> telephone. I'm very pleased with it and run it with three tuners. One
>> controls my cable box flawlessly.
>>
>> Tom
> Know how well it works with satelite? Unfortunately in my area, the cable
> provider (Time Warner) has some rediculous rates for just basic service
> (last year I read an article listing it as the second highest cable rate
> in California). Tivo with DirecTV is great, esp. since there's no
> compression done on the Tivo box (it records the MPEG2 stream directly so
> the quality is great). Also the fee is independent of the number of
> Tivo's you use (although DTV does charge extra for multiple receivers).
> Also setting up an FTP daemon and other services was fairly trivial on my
> unit.
Should work flawlessly. Just have to have the right tuner card and likely a
USB-UIRT IR blaster (about $35). I like the Hauppauge TV PVR USB2, wince
you don't have to crack the box. Supports a S-VHS connection from the cable
box for the bext quality.
Here's a quote:
"(3) Beyond TV requires a PC IR blaster or serial port tuning cable for
tuning digital cable and satellite set-top boxes. Certain DirecTV set-top
boxes can be controlled using serial port tuning and other set-top boxes
require a PC IR blaster."
Tom
"Nicholas Andrade" <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:NMUbe.2093$zu.1174@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> Tom Scales wrote:
>> "Nicholas Andrade" <sdnick484@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:abQbe.1967$zu.775@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>>
>>
>>>That makes sense; I'm thinking of eventually setting up a MythTV box
>>>running Fedora. If I do, I'll likely go XFS on the media drives.
>>>Currently I have DirecTV w/ (a modded) Tivo. Tivo adds $5 which seems
>>>fair enough, however if the rumors turn out to be true and DTV rolls out
>>>their own proprietary DVR, I'm likely to switch to Myth.
>>
>>
>> Consider Snapstream's BeyondTV. That's what I use and it is incredible.
>> No monthly fee. You can even schedule shows with a WAP enabled
>> telephone. I'm very pleased with it and run it with three tuners. One
>> controls my cable box flawlessly.
>>
>> Tom
> Know how well it works with satelite? Unfortunately in my area, the cable
> provider (Time Warner) has some rediculous rates for just basic service
> (last year I read an article listing it as the second highest cable rate
> in California). Tivo with DirecTV is great, esp. since there's no
> compression done on the Tivo box (it records the MPEG2 stream directly so
> the quality is great). Also the fee is independent of the number of
> Tivo's you use (although DTV does charge extra for multiple receivers).
> Also setting up an FTP daemon and other services was fairly trivial on my
> unit.
Should work flawlessly. Just have to have the right tuner card and likely a
USB-UIRT IR blaster (about $35). I like the Hauppauge TV PVR USB2, wince
you don't have to crack the box. Supports a S-VHS connection from the cable
box for the bext quality.
Here's a quote:
"(3) Beyond TV requires a PC IR blaster or serial port tuning cable for
tuning digital cable and satellite set-top boxes. Certain DirecTV set-top
boxes can be controlled using serial port tuning and other set-top boxes
require a PC IR blaster."
Tom
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