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.
It's not exactly turning your PS2 into a Tivo though, they've had software out for a while to allow you to use a PC to record programs, this is merely using the new network adapter for the PS2 to get that content from your PC to your TV screen.
because then you wouldn't be able to get your story posted on slashdot.
Cool, but....
by
blues5150
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· Score: 3, Insightful
When I saw this article I thought great PS2 being used as a PVR. Come to find out after reading the article that I need a PC with Snapstream too! Seems ridiculous to have the PS2 even in the mix. Yeah I know that playback on the TV has been an issue with the Snapstream/PC combo, but I'm sure better alternatives top this mongrel can and have been proposed here on Slashdot.
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PS/2 as a solution?
by
lucifuge31337
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I'm using SnapStream. It's problem is not output to a TV, it's lack of an integrated guide feature.
Is PS/2 software and a NIC really a better or even less costly alternative than a video card with an S-VIDEO out? No.
And I _DID_ read the article. This is stupid. It's a poor solution to a "problem" that doesnt' really exist.
I got the image of an 80's model IBM PS/2 with Transformers Armadda being recorded on it!
-- Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Re: OT :Re:Another use...
by
youngerpants
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· Score: 4, Funny
go to http://www.linuxplay.com/ and fork out £200 of your hard earnt money
wait 6 months
get kit
discover you dont have a sync-on-green monitor and spend a further £250 for a cheap one
install PS2 linux and discover you have deleted all your saved data from your memory card
easy
TiVo functions != PVR/DVR
by
Sc00ter
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· Score: 5, Insightful
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.
Micro Channel Architecture finally pays off...
by
dpbsmith
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· Score: 4, Funny
(Oh, wait, they're talking about some OTHER "PS2.")
(Am I the only one to whom that initialism evokes the memory of the behemoth of personal computers, and the marvellous Micro Channel, with powers beyond imagination waiting to be unlocked by OS/2? Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Now PS2 means a game machine... and DEC, the Dairy Equipment Corporation of Madison Wisconsin, founded in 1947, lives on today, while another company of the same name is but a memory.
cool idea but ...
by
Mr_Silver
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· Score: 3, Interesting
... they're going to have to work on it.
Personally I think a combined DVD player, console and Tivo in one would be a killer. I seriously don't fancy paying out for three items of kit and having three boxes sitting underneath the television.
But, this isn't really Tivo functionality. Hell, I doubt I'd need all the stuff Tivo has, but recording, time stretching, on screen programming and on screen television guides are pretty much a must.
I'll watch the space.
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Snapstream appears to be taken a disproportionant ammount of credit for this. The real news here is the Broadq software which installs as on your PC as a media server which you can access thru a PS2 with a ethernet adapter. Supports MP3, MPEG1,2,4, DivX, and JPEG formats. Server side runs on Linux, Windows, or OS X.
The Snapstream software is just one way to get mediafiles on your server to watch. . . .
Closest Open Source project similar to this VideoLAN
The USB network adapter is connected to the PS2. The network adapter is connected to your home network. This gives the PS2 access to the PC's networked drives which contain the recorded video. The PS2 decodes and outputs the video to your TV.
The only advantage I can see to this vs. using a video card with S-video out would be having a TV in the living room with the PC back in the office. You could have a long run of Ethernet rather than a long run of S-video and audio. Also, I would imagine the PS2 controller would provide the ability to "drive" rather than trying to use some type of IR remote to control your PC that is in another room.
I don't know if a PS2 has an IP stack built in or if it is included in networked games, but games that supported play hook into home networks easily. I have my PS2 hooked into my router and can connect to net to play networked Madden 2003.
Wouldn't the Harddrive addon be needed for this? i think it would possibly tip over the price of a Tivo on its own, so im thinking whats the point of reinventing the wheel with something that costs more?
The title is a bit misleading. All this software does is that it allows you to stream video(with add-on network adaptor) from a PC and show it on your TV. There is no actual information stored on the system. The PC is the one that does the recording.
The system is more or less a video dumb terminal for your PC.
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Also, I'm sure it breaks at least 65536 patents.
It's not exactly turning your PS2 into a Tivo though, they've had software out for a while to allow you to use a PC to record programs, this is merely using the new network adapter for the PS2 to get that content from your PC to your TV screen.
Why not just buy a gfx card with a TV out?
When I saw this article I thought great PS2 being used as a PVR. Come to find out after reading the article that I need a PC with Snapstream too! Seems ridiculous to have the PS2 even in the mix. Yeah I know that playback on the TV has been an issue with the Snapstream/PC combo, but I'm sure better alternatives top this mongrel can and have been proposed here on Slashdot.
I'm using SnapStream. It's problem is not output to a TV, it's lack of an integrated guide feature.
Is PS/2 software and a NIC really a better or even less costly alternative than a video card with an S-VIDEO out? No.
And I _DID_ read the article. This is stupid. It's a poor solution to a "problem" that doesnt' really exist.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
I got the image of an 80's model IBM PS/2 with Transformers Armadda being recorded on it!
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
go to http://www.linuxplay.com/ and fork out £200 of your hard earnt money
wait 6 months
get kit
discover you dont have a sync-on-green monitor and spend a further £250 for a cheap one
install PS2 linux and discover you have deleted all your saved data from your memory card
easy
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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(Oh, wait, they're talking about some OTHER "PS2.")
(Am I the only one to whom that initialism evokes the memory of the behemoth of personal computers, and the marvellous Micro Channel, with powers beyond imagination waiting to be unlocked by OS/2? Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Now PS2 means a game machine... and DEC, the Dairy Equipment Corporation of Madison Wisconsin, founded in 1947, lives on today, while another company of the same name is but a memory.
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Personally I think a combined DVD player, console and Tivo in one would be a killer. I seriously don't fancy paying out for three items of kit and having three boxes sitting underneath the television.
But, this isn't really Tivo functionality. Hell, I doubt I'd need all the stuff Tivo has, but recording, time stretching, on screen programming and on screen television guides are pretty much a must.
I'll watch the space.
Avantslash - View Slashdot cleanly on your mobile phone.
Snapstream appears to be taken a disproportionant ammount of credit for this. The real news here is the Broadq software which installs as on your PC as a media server which you can access thru a PS2 with a ethernet adapter. Supports MP3, MPEG1,2,4, DivX, and JPEG formats. Server side runs on Linux, Windows, or OS X.
The Snapstream software is just one way to get mediafiles on your server to watch. . . .
Closest Open Source project similar to this VideoLAN
The USB network adapter is connected to the PS2. The network adapter is connected to your home network. This gives the PS2 access to the PC's networked drives which contain the recorded video. The PS2 decodes and outputs the video to your TV.
The only advantage I can see to this vs. using a video card with S-video out would be having a TV in the living room with the PC back in the office. You could have a long run of Ethernet rather than a long run of S-video and audio. Also, I would imagine the PS2 controller would provide the ability to "drive" rather than trying to use some type of IR remote to control your PC that is in another room.
I don't know if a PS2 has an IP stack built in or if it is included in networked games, but games that supported play hook into home networks easily. I have my PS2 hooked into my router and can connect to net to play networked Madden 2003.
Wouldn't the Harddrive addon be needed for this? i think it would possibly tip over the price of a Tivo on its own, so im thinking whats the point of reinventing the wheel with something that costs more?
The title is a bit misleading. All this software does is that it allows you to stream video(with add-on network adaptor) from a PC and show it on your TV. There is no actual information stored on the system. The PC is the one that does the recording.
The system is more or less a video dumb terminal for your PC.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?