Re: Fw: TiVo About to Re-launch in the UK

["Max Hodgson" <max.hodgson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/2008, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> TiVo would just go off and record stuff for me based on what I'd told
it I
> liked so I never used to have to worry about whether there was a new
season
> of Top Gear coming up - it was in TiVos wishlist so TiVo would go and
> record
> it. I always had "new" films to watch as the entire
"films" category was in
> TiVos wishlist (but not as high a priority as Top Gear) so TiVo would
go
> and
> record films whenever they were on and it wasn't doing anything else.
>
> I have to say I'd be the first person in line if there was an
up-to-date
> multiple DVB-T or DVB-S (unfortunately my DVB-T reception here is
abysmal)
> tuner version of TiVo available... *sigh*
>
> Oh - I also don't like that you can't get recordings off a Sky+ or
SkyHD
> box
> nor do I particularly like giving Murdoch loads of money each month -
it
> was
> bad enough that they did the EPG for TiVo and I had to pay them for
that.
> :-(
>


You should really try MythTV. It does pretty much all of this, plus the
latest version has MultiRec as well. My development box has pretty much
ended up as my main recording box.

mjh


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