Why we can't record our TV shows (was: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center)

[Tom Buskey]

On 3/26/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/26/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > As a TiVo owner and former DirecTV subscriber, I couldn't figure out why
> > people would get a DirecTiVo instead of a stand alone.
>
>   As everyone else has said, better quality.  The DTiVo units stored
> the digital MPEG stream right from the satellite feed.  No loss of
> quality by compressing, decompressing, compressing again.  Also, at
> the time, the DTiVo was the only TiVo on the market that had dual
> tuners.
>
> > The standalone lets you transfer between 2 TiVos or to a PC that you can
> > burn to DVD.  The standalone can run HME java apps and view weather,
> movie
> > listings, etc.
>
>   When the DTiVo first came out, none of that was available on the
> TiVo platform.  All it did was record shows and play them back.  When
> TiVo's HMO (Home Media Option, the name from back when it was a
> pay-extra option) was first announced, a lot of people ass-umed that
> DirecTV's promises of support meant something.
>
>   Now that DirecTV has finished shafting all their the DirecTiVo
> customers, they know better, of course.  Hindsight and all that.
>
> > Of course, my next TiVo will be MythTV.  Anyone got a way for them to
> play
> > .TiVo files directly?  Or script Myth to run tivodecode to convert to
> mpg
> > before playing? :-)
>
>   Why not just do a one-time batch tivodecode of the .tivo files to
> .mpeg files?  That's what I did.



You lose the metadata that the TiVos use.  My wife likes having that when
she pulls stuff from Galleon on the server to the TiVo.
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