Sorry for the subject guys, but I posted 2
fact
based replys yesterday that somehow have not appeared, and its very
annoying.
Someone mentioned IR control from showshifter.
YES
Someone also mentioned IR control when
Showshifter
box is not in the same room. Would this not be a problem for Tivo as well,
or
does tv come with some magic method of communicating with all the hardware
on
the planet that is TIVO only and Showshifter cannot use?
This is one point I will conceed, that
Showshifter
before 1.5 sucked a fair bit. I did having it running on different (early
via
chipset) hardware but I couldn't trust it 100%.
The current release version 1.50 is very
stable and
has been recording all my tv viewing since release. Showshifter does
improve
with every release, I should know I've been fighting with it for about 2
years
now..
The latest 'Preview Release' of Showshifter
adds
overlay displays of show position etc...
It also adds FREE SUBSCRIPTION scheduling. Oh
and
MP3 handling is improved greatly, album pics and lots more.. Segmented avi
recordings..
I am capturing to a raid array in a silencing
enclosure. I can capture from my S-vhs deck or ntl digibox losslessly
or
with compression. In fact with compression on I can capture to a network
drive! Oh and I can install more than 2 disks! It then runs thru
a little app I wrote that edits out adverts by watching for station
idents(mostly for sky1 captures). Once I check the edits, IF I
want to
archive, I convert the files down to Mpeg2 and burn them to dvd-r/rw. Once
I put
a flaging system in place in the recording filename and have the ident
software
perfect, I'll move my dvd-r drive into the Showshifter box and leave a
blank in
it, and it will do it all automatically.. Tivo can , um , it can do none of
these things. oh. But the case is nice!
It comes down to this....
Tivo can only do a fraction of what I've
just
described. FACT. And you guys have to forward thru commercials don't you?
:) I
know it's only a button press, but still, how much disk space you using for
adverts? Thats just stupid. Oh and even if you edit out commercials, you
still
have to spend time transfering the data at 100 base network speed.
Oh, and I have seen/used a Tivo. The fact most
users here defend the fact that their Hard earned money wasn't wasted
doesn't
surprise me in the least.
I think we will see that, providing
Showshifter
keeps improving at it's current rate this thread should be quite funny to
look
back on in a couple of months. For Showshifter users!
And for those who wanted my
specs...
Main SS machine (Live one doing all the
work)
XP
Abit motherboard kt7a
Matrox g200 !! (yes it works under xp)
AMD Athlon 1gig running 100fsb
128mb Ram
2*80Gig maxtor drives
15Gig of mp3's
IR Remote
Logitech RF key/mouse
DXR2 mpeg2 out card
Test SS machine (For betas and
dev)
XP
wintv card
p4 1.6a running 2.13g
512mb ram
2*40gig maxtors
2*19inch monitors for 2560x1024
lovin!
Pioneer a03