ReplayTV and TiVo Compared

j0atz writes "The New York Times is running a story today that, while it's a bit redundant in the beginning and a bit short on technical details later, gives a rundown the newest features for ReplayTV (numbered 4000 or above) and TiVO (Series2); basically, you can program your favorite DVR to record a show from a remote computer or from another (same-brand) DVR. Along with that, you can stream MP3's and pictures with TiVo now. Still...I'd much rather use something like FreeVo or MythTV and actually burn my shows to cd, stream whatever I want, etc, etc."

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Re:Building your own

[xchino]

"The /. crowd is still missing a valuable lesson in "building your own tivo" -- it's freaking EXPENSIVE!"

It can be, if you're building a total TiVo killer. It's reasonably priced if you just want a PVR. In fact, my two PVR's both cost me $45 a peice. That's just the cost of the Tv tuner card I used. Other than that it cost me nothing but time and a little bit of know how, and I built an awesome PVR out of Free (from the colleges dumpster) and readily available hardware. Total cost for 2 PVR's.. ~$90. That's like half of ONE Tivo.

"I love how all the lists of "needed hardware" included multiple super high-end video capture cards -- each of which costs the same as a full TiVo."

You're looking at the wrong damn list then, I use one cheap ass TV tuner card in each and it works just fine. It can support multiple super high end video cards (Unlike your TiVO which is stuck basically as-is), but they are not requirements. It only has to be as bad ass as you want it to be.

"I love my TiVo (I own two of them). The software rocks. My wife can use it. My 2-year old can use it, and yet I'm still amazed at how powerful it is. Then along comes the OSS community. Builds a competitive box at 3x the price, software that's more difficult to use, and a feature-set that still can't compete. (yay for OSS).
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What a crock of shit. Try this..

I love my Linux PVR's. I own two of them. The software rocks. *I* can use it, and *I* can extend to it in any way I see fit. I don't pay a service fee to use them either. The software rocks, and I can change it how I see fit instead of being stuck with what some other guy determined would be best for everyone. My mom can use it, my grandma can use it, and it's infinately more powerful than a TiVO. Then comes along some guy who simply doesn't understand the power of "rolling your own" and bashes free software that he's never used basing his arguments off of complete crap.

Freevo or MythTV may not come with the features you want, so you can put them in yourself. TiVo may not come with features you want... too bad.. pay up anyways, sucker.

Just because you fail to see the incredible usefulness behind an Open Source, freely available PVR, doesn't detract from the immense badassedness of those projects. Your argument is akin to "Just use Microsoft, Linux can't compare".

Some of us like to USE our equipment and at times that might not include a feature already in this one size fits all jogging suit you like to wear.