OT: DirecTivo vs. 'New Direct TV DVR'?

[Travis Roy]

>
> I don't know about the DirecTiVos but  the regular TiVos don't do  
> HD.  Only the S3 which uses a CableCARD.  I'm not sure it will work  
> with DirecTV.
>

The HD DirecTiVo (can probably find on ebay) will do HD, but only for  
premium channels, and they will be phased out eventually.

S3 will probably work with DirecTV with an IR blaster, but you won't  
get HD. Similar to the older SA TiVos

> I have 2 series 2 TiVos and love the interface too.  But my next  
> DVR will be MythTV.  There's lots of advantages to Myth that you're  
> not going to get with a builtin DVR or TiVo.  In addition it will  
> be portable to Satellite, Cable, FiOS or Antenna.

Except you can't get premium content in HD with a MythTV box, unless  
you can get the firewire cablebox thing working. Also if you're in  
kind of a crappy area you won't even be able to get HD OTA due to  
reception problems. If you use it with Sat or a cablebox (be it cable  
or FIOS) you'll have to do either serial control or an IR blaster.

>
> Keep the DirecTiVo in any event.  There are people hacking the  
> DirecTiVo.  It might be that someone has gotten it to be stand  
> alone.  At the least, there is eBay to sell it.  I know there's  
> something that allows Tivo2go to work with DirecTiVo.

the DirecTiVo can only work with DirecTV due to the way it works. It  
just captures the sat feed and you play it back. This is why there's  
no quality settings. It can never be a SA TiVo. Also, from my  
understanding, unless it's hacked DirecTV can turn on or off the DVR  
function of the DirecTiVos, so it will become a normal receiver at  
some point.

To get TiVo2Go to work with DirecTV you need to have a specific  
DirecTiVo box, and you have to hack it. When you do this you lose PPV  
purchases from the remote since you turn off the function of it to  
call home and perform upgrades and that's how DirecTV gets your PPV  
purchasing information. You're actually better off just hacking it  
and using TyTools to extract shows since that lets you transcode and  
you have more options with the show than TiVo2Go gives you.


>
> Another option might be Apple TV....
>

AppleTV has no recording functionality at all so I don't think it's  
the same type of device.