> They should think about incorporating google's safesearch
Go near the bottom of the preferences page. There's a section entitled:
Filter web and image results with:
with a note that says:
Note: A9.com uses Google's SafeSearch
The pvr-250 encodes the video to mpeg2 on the fly and uses very little processing power (less than 5% cpu per pvr-250 on my machine).
Mythtv can re-encode the mpeg2 files into other formats in the background once a recording has completed. Mythtv nices the re-encoding processes down so they don't impact much of anything else on the box.
I have a 700MHz duron w/ 2 pvr-250's and have no trouble at all recording two programs at a time while re-encoding in the background.
Your comment is true if all you want is a tivo box.
I use mine as a file server (samba/nfs) and firewall/content filter. I'm also able to watch any tv shows I've recorded from any of the other desktops in my house and anywhere in my house/yard from my laptop. My box also has two capture cards and can tune 2 shows at once from cable tv.
You can hack your tivo to do some of the things mentioned above, but then you have to buy more hardware, void your warranty, spend some time, etc.
The problem with Comcast is that they've already been steadily downgrading my service, almost since day one. When I first signed on with them, there were no upload/download speed caps (they have them now), I had full access to newsgroups (I have limited access now) and I paid $15 less than I do now.
They've aggressively gone after new customers with free cable modems, $100 rebates, etc. They've reduced services to me and others as a way to subsidize these deals. Loyalty to existing customers be damned. Getting lots of new customers at the expense of existing customers is the way to make money and build the business (at least in the short term). It upsets me that they do this, but they have the right to do this.
As has been mentioned before, I also have rights. We've already cut off our cable tv service and are switching to dsl in a few weeks.
I'm not one of their top users today. You may not be one of the top users today. But, after they get rid of the top 1%, you're ~1% closer to being in tomorrows top 1%.
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> They should think about incorporating google's safesearch Go near the bottom of the preferences page. There's a section entitled: Filter web and image results with: with a note that says: Note: A9.com uses Google's SafeSearch
The pvr-250 encodes the video to mpeg2 on the fly and uses very little processing power (less than 5% cpu per pvr-250 on my machine).
Mythtv can re-encode the mpeg2 files into other formats in the background once a recording has completed. Mythtv nices the re-encoding processes down so they don't impact much of anything else on the box.
I have a 700MHz duron w/ 2 pvr-250's and have no trouble at all recording two programs at a time while re-encoding in the background.
Your comment is true if all you want is a tivo box.
I use mine as a file server (samba/nfs) and firewall/content filter. I'm also able to watch any tv shows I've recorded from any of the other desktops in my house and anywhere in my house/yard from my laptop. My box also has two capture cards and can tune 2 shows at once from cable tv.
You can hack your tivo to do some of the things mentioned above, but then you have to buy more hardware, void your warranty, spend some time, etc.
They've aggressively gone after new customers with free cable modems, $100 rebates, etc. They've reduced services to me and others as a way to subsidize these deals. Loyalty to existing customers be damned. Getting lots of new customers at the expense of existing customers is the way to make money and build the business (at least in the short term). It upsets me that they do this, but they have the right to do this.
As has been mentioned before, I also have rights. We've already cut off our cable tv service and are switching to dsl in a few weeks.
I'm not one of their top users today. You may not be one of the top users today. But, after they get rid of the top 1%, you're ~1% closer to being in tomorrows top 1%.