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PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the two-enter-one-leaves dept.

asciimonster writes "AnandTech has completed its second review of set-top box Personal Video Recorders. After checking out the Linux-based MythTV, previously covered here on slashdot, they compared it to Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004. 'Our analysis has proved that though Media Center Edition 2004 is a boxed package that is easy to set up and configure, it looks amazingly beautiful, has great features such as On-Demand content, and is fully supported by Microsoft. However, for the enthusiast, MythTV takes the gold for its greater support for a variety of hardware and software codecs.'"

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  1. Yup... by Da+VinMan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm with you on that one. TiVo presents a high realiability AND high quality experience. My only complaint is that I'm slowly filling up my TiVo with content that I don't want to delete.

    Is there an easy way offload that content from a series 2 TiVo without submitting to the "load tape in VCR, record shows one by one until tape is full (including overrun errors), get next tape, repeat" cycle?

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