OT: TV delivery alternatives (was: DirecTivo vs. 'New Direct TV DVR'?)

[Tom Buskey]

On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>   Be aware that, with MythTV, you need a capture device (i.e., tuner
> card) per simultaneous recording, and there are limits to how much
> stuff you can stuff down a PCI bus.  Four simultaneous recordings may
> be pushing it on anything but a high-end PC.  But one dandy thing
> about MythTV is that you can have as many boxes as you want, sharing
> recordings via network.
>
>   (Aside #1: You can do that with the Series 2 TiVo boxes, too, but
> they had to disable it in the high def Series 3 to get CableLabs
> approval.  Ick.)



And the Series 2 TiVo units top out with 100 Mb/s ethernet to USB
2.0adapters.  MythTV can use Gigabit ethernet.  And MythTV can
automatically
strip commercials.
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