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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.
Why not just buy a gfx card with a TV out?
TiVo functions != PVR/DVR
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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.
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. . . .
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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?
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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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. . . .
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