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TiVo, MS, and the War for the Living Room

Posted by simoniker on from the ready-fight dept.

r-blo writes "Hot off his in-depth comparison of TiVo vs. Microsoft Media Center, Engadget has Thomas Hawk following up with ten things each that TiVo and Microsoft need to do to win the War for the Living Room. It won't be easy (like TiVo offering their OS as software for the PC. Not going to happen.) but I've got a feeling they might be better off listening up. Especially TiVo, since we're all rooting for them anyway."

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  1. MCE vr Myth by lucason · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I must disagree.

    I too have used both and MCE just simply didn't cut it.

    Firstly my hardware wan't supported. MCE actually has pretty limited driver support. And the CPU and memory requirement were much higher than Myth.

    Myth gave me the added fexibility to add EPG for my region which was not supported by MCE either.

    The programs recorded by Myth are exportable. You can export files to VCD SVCD WMV DIVX etc... Open up a samba share and you can start copiing all files to wherever you want. MCE doesn't do that.

    Long story short? I installed MCE and removed it days later. Installed Myth and have had months of viewing pleasure.