Re: TIVO
- From: "CLicker" <CLicker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 16:36:40 -0700
"UCLAN" <nomail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:16GNl.23000$CN5.16379@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
zbadzak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Can I use a TIVO with my cable connection and forgo the TIVO
monthly subscription?
No. Have you considered a Moxi?
http://moxi.com/us/home.html
I was an early Moxi user, years ago having turned my 40 gig, gen
1 TiVo over to a friend to make room for Adelphia cable co's
Motorola HD-DVR outfitted with Moxi software, It's only
drawbacks were: no "wish lists" a la TiVo, and only an 80 Gig
HDD - which amounted to about 9 hours of HD recordings.
The interface was, IMNSVHO, better than the TiVo of that time,
the responsiveness to the remote was the best I'd experienced.
Rapid forward/backward scans were corrected after stopping to
almost exactly the point I'd wanted to stop. When not passing
through 480 video, it upscaled over the component interface to
720p or 1080i (DVI was not well implemented, HDMI was still
embryonic).
Sadly, the web site referenced does little more than TiVo
bashing and the spec page is a joke - lacking specifics for what
types of a/v it will handle over the wired home network or the
eSATA interface. Likewise, no mention of whether the eSATA
drives can be archived and/or whether a proprietary encryption
is used on all recordings. At the very least I'd expect the
unencrypted streams to be editable, which I can already
accomplish with far less expensive, non-subscription capture
equipment.
Finally, at $800 purchase, it does not compete well with a
custom HTPC which can be had for $1,000 or less and handles
Blu-Ray, DVD, every exotic codec yet invented, likewise for
stills, handles all the internet and home-net stuff, supports
capture while playing Blu-Ray, with simultaneous web browsing
whenever the mood strikes.
Another perpetuation of needless modularity. I've but a single
box under the TV. Lacking cable cards, it does everything else
this box does and several other specialty products do. When
cable cards are supported, I expect to be able to plug in a
board or adapter to accomplish that too, but if that never
happens, no big loss. Premium channels can not resist the
financial rewards of the optical disc market, and I'm in no
special hurry to see what they have to offer. NetFlix will have
it eventually.
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