Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the everyone-loves-tivo dept.
aagha writes "According to this story on CNET's News.com, two Texas companies will offer software to give your PS2, Tivo-like functionality." I'm all for anything that gets more people PVRs or PS2s ;) Course I think the next GTA and Tony Hawk will do more for the cause of the PS2.
TiVo functions != PVR/DVR
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Sc00ter
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After reading some comments it seems like this doesn't even make the PS2 a PVR, but just because something records TV shows to a hard drive doesn't give it "TiVo-like functions". It gives it PVR/DVR functions.
TiVo is MUCH more then recording shows to a hard drive. It's got suggestions, season passes, thumbs up/down. This is stuff that ReplayTV doesn't have (well they have the season pass).
Just making sure that you all keep in mind that slapping a TV card in your computer and making it record the simpsons to you hard drive may be cool (and it is) and may make it a PVR, it doesn't come close to what TiVo can do.
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TiVo is MUCH more then recording shows to a hard drive. It's got suggestions, season passes, thumbs up/down. This is stuff that ReplayTV doesn't have (well they have the season pass).
Just making sure that you all keep in mind that slapping a TV card in your computer and making it record the simpsons to you hard drive may be cool (and it is) and may make it a PVR, it doesn't come close to what TiVo can do.
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