RE: DIY TIVO?

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Exactly what I'm planning to do with this new machine that I'm building ...
was going to use an ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro card though as it's hald the
price and I don't need the 3D acceleration of the Radeon processor.

Current spec which is being priced up by my man-who-can is thus:

Motherboard:

Gigabyte GA-7ZXR

Processor:

AMD Athlon, 1Ghz,
CPU Fan to suit.

Memory:

2 x 128Mb PC133 168pin DIMM.

Storage:

2 x IBM IDE GXP 76Gb 7,200rpm (used as an IDE striped array).

Graphics Card:

ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro.

Not sure what software I'll be running though as it would be nice to be
able
to just download the TV lstings and point and click to select what you want
to record. Not sure how feasible that is though. Suppeosedly the TV Guide
software supplied with the ATI only works in the US and doesn't support the
UK.

Phil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 February 2001 21:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] DIY TIVO?
>
>
> Has anybody seen the spec for the new ATI All-in-Wonder RADEON card,
and
> thought about using this instead of a "proper" Tivo box?
>
> It retails for between £180-£220 (depending on where you shop!)
>
> Apart from sounding like a new whizzo washing powder, it includes all
the
> usual All-in-Wonder features, EG TV tuner on-board, Video-in,
Video-out,
> MPEG decoder etc. etc. It also has (IIRC) 32MB of DDR SDRAM, but more
> importantly, includes Tivo-like software, enabling it to be used
> in just the
> same way as a Tivo, IE: Pause Live TV, Instant replay, record to HDD
etc,
> and probably best-of all includes a subscription-free TV guide
service...
>
> The full specs are here:
> http://www.ati.com/uk/pages/products/pc/aiw_radeon/index.html
>
> If this were used as the heart of a custom DIY Tivo solution,
> then provided
> it was well executed, it strikes me it has the potential to be
> better than a
> "real" Tivo, for less money. - And you can expand the disk
> capacity as much
> as you like....
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Paul G.
>
>
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