Tivo.
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jennythebugg
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i dvr things i absolutly cannot miss
ruaround
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Originally Posted by alix2.0
http:///forum/post/2936334
they are the same concept. but a tivo is a tivo and a DVR is everything else.
LMAO!!! no TiVo is a brand name of a DVR!!! you see TiVo records the progams you choose digitaly onto a hard drive...
TiVo is a digital video recorder... just like all the other brand name digital video recorders...
not another viking thing...
http:///forum/post/2936334
they are the same concept. but a tivo is a tivo and a DVR is everything else.
LMAO!!! no TiVo is a brand name of a DVR!!! you see TiVo records the progams you choose digitaly onto a hard drive...
TiVo is a digital video recorder... just like all the other brand name digital video recorders...
not another viking thing...
pezenfuego
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You could just agree with Ruaround and spare some embarrassment
A girl without Chocolate in her top 5???
A girl without Chocolate in her top 5???
pezenfuego
Active Member
Originally Posted by alix2.0
http:///forum/post/2936413
have you ever made a smore?
Oh wow. I'm a very intelligent individual aren't I?
http:///forum/post/2936413
have you ever made a smore?
Oh wow. I'm a very intelligent individual aren't I?
nw2salt08
Active Member
Not every girl has chocolate on her list.....geez.... I understand what Alix is trying to say....TiVo was the big thing and every customer who owned one just LOVED it....then, they pretty well discontinued selling them through the satellite companies and started selling their own DVR's...well, because of a lot of kinks in the systems people were very frustrated and didn't like them much. I don't know how many people asked me why we didn't sell these anymore when I worked for DirecTv....TiVo systems are easier to access menus and troubleshoot...a lot of the functions for the DVR can be complicated to troubleshoot because there are so many things that can go wrong. I believe you can still pick up a TiVo at Best Buy or if someone is selling them via garage sale...
scsinet
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So to bring the topic back around...
I marked "DVR" but I think you were referring to the generic DVR cable boxes and satellite boxes that are out there.
I personally just got rid of my ReplayTV (Tivo's biggest competition before they went under
) in favor of a Windows Media center.
Since you are slamming everything that is "not Tivo", I think I'll play my trump card
. Frankly, Tivo SUCKS in comparison, and I think you'll agree when I explain what it can do.
I've got one big Media center server. It runs Windows Vista Ultimate, and has 4 tuners on board. Two analog tuners that connect to two Dish Network receivers for recording satellite, and 2 ASTC tuners that pull in off-air HDTV from my antenna. I have 1000GB of recording space (about 1000 hours of analog or 300ish hours of HDTV). The media center runs extenders on TVs around the house that connect to it throught my network, so every TV in the house can watch any of the 4 tuners, schedule recordings, or view any of the centrally stored recordings.
Advantages?
- DVD Storage. I can place DVDs into the drive on the server and copy them to the hard drive, and play them back on any TV in the house at any time, without using the disc.
- I can download movies off the Internet, and simply place them on the Media center's hard drive and play them anywhere in the house. (Of course you should always do this legally...
)
- Games - You can install game emulators and run playstation, Dreamcast, Nintendo, just about any games, on any TV. I don't do this though.
- Extenders - each one connects another TV to the system and allows access to everything. If I'm watching a show and decide to go to bed, I can stop it in the living room, go to the bedroom, and pick it up right where I left off in the other room.
- Multiple tuners - I can record 4 things at once, or record two things, watch TV on two more, etc.
- No subscription fees.
- Upgradeable hard drive space, etc as time goes on. This is possible with a Tivo but it voids the warranties.
- Streamable - I can stream recorded content from my media center PC to my computer at work if I brownbag lunch, etc.
- I can burn any shows I record off to DVD for permanent storage.
- I can back up my media center at any time.
... so... let's see your Tivo do those things. And no, you don't have to be a technical geek (though I am... ) to set this up. You can buy everything you need off the shelf. It is much more expensive than Tivo, but once you make the initial investment, it's well worth it. The nice thing is that you can scale the system as you go, you don't have to buy everything right away.
So let me officially state via emoticon:
For the record though... I will NEVER go back to TV without a DVR/TIVO/MEDIA CENTER type setup again. Once you go DVR, you'll never go back!
I marked "DVR" but I think you were referring to the generic DVR cable boxes and satellite boxes that are out there.
I personally just got rid of my ReplayTV (Tivo's biggest competition before they went under
Since you are slamming everything that is "not Tivo", I think I'll play my trump card
I've got one big Media center server. It runs Windows Vista Ultimate, and has 4 tuners on board. Two analog tuners that connect to two Dish Network receivers for recording satellite, and 2 ASTC tuners that pull in off-air HDTV from my antenna. I have 1000GB of recording space (about 1000 hours of analog or 300ish hours of HDTV). The media center runs extenders on TVs around the house that connect to it throught my network, so every TV in the house can watch any of the 4 tuners, schedule recordings, or view any of the centrally stored recordings.
Advantages?
- DVD Storage. I can place DVDs into the drive on the server and copy them to the hard drive, and play them back on any TV in the house at any time, without using the disc.
- I can download movies off the Internet, and simply place them on the Media center's hard drive and play them anywhere in the house. (Of course you should always do this legally...
- Games - You can install game emulators and run playstation, Dreamcast, Nintendo, just about any games, on any TV. I don't do this though.
- Extenders - each one connects another TV to the system and allows access to everything. If I'm watching a show and decide to go to bed, I can stop it in the living room, go to the bedroom, and pick it up right where I left off in the other room.
- Multiple tuners - I can record 4 things at once, or record two things, watch TV on two more, etc.
- No subscription fees.
- Upgradeable hard drive space, etc as time goes on. This is possible with a Tivo but it voids the warranties.
- Streamable - I can stream recorded content from my media center PC to my computer at work if I brownbag lunch, etc.
- I can burn any shows I record off to DVD for permanent storage.
- I can back up my media center at any time.
... so... let's see your Tivo do those things. And no, you don't have to be a technical geek (though I am... ) to set this up. You can buy everything you need off the shelf. It is much more expensive than Tivo, but once you make the initial investment, it's well worth it. The nice thing is that you can scale the system as you go, you don't have to buy everything right away.
So let me officially state via emoticon:
For the record though... I will NEVER go back to TV without a DVR/TIVO/MEDIA CENTER type setup again. Once you go DVR, you'll never go back!
coral keeper
Active Member
no, and i have no desire to.
coral keeper
Active Member
Originally Posted by alix2.0
http:///forum/post/2936696
you like commercials and missing shows? or do you just not watch TV?
I only watch like 1-2 hours a day at night and I mostly watch late night comedy shows.
http:///forum/post/2936696
you like commercials and missing shows? or do you just not watch TV?
I only watch like 1-2 hours a day at night and I mostly watch late night comedy shows.
scsinet
Active Member
Originally Posted by Coral Keeper
http:///forum/post/2936707
I only watch like 1-2 hours a day at night and I mostly watch late night comedy shows.
Ahhh but you would watch more if you had one.
Of course that may be considered a bad thing.
http:///forum/post/2936707
I only watch like 1-2 hours a day at night and I mostly watch late night comedy shows.
Ahhh but you would watch more if you had one.
Of course that may be considered a bad thing.
jackri
Active Member
I have a DVR but rarely use it... I don't watch much tv -- except I tivo my scrubs.. I use the terms interchangeable -- when I worked for Directv we installed "tivos" and something about dvrs -- thought they were the same thing but dunno if "tivo" is a service added to a dvr or what.. dont care don't use it much cept for my scrubs
scsinet
Active Member
Originally Posted by jackri
http:///forum/post/2937166
I have a DVR but rarely use it... I don't watch much tv -- except I tivo my scrubs.. I use the terms interchangeable -- when I worked for Directv we installed "tivos" and something about dvrs -- thought they were the same thing but dunno if "tivo" is a service added to a dvr or what.. dont care don't use it much cept for my scrubs
A Tivo is a DVR.
DVR is an applied technology, a genericized term to indicated any device that uses a hard drive or other read/write digital media to do "Time Shifting" (recording content to a storage device while the user watches it at some point behind).
Tivo, ReplayTV, Dish Network DVR, DirectTV DVR, Windows Media Center, MythTV, and cable company DVRs (to name a few major ones) are ALL DVRs.
Tivo is what the company named their product. Through marketing, they made it a household word and convinced people that their product is somehow different than a DVR. Tivo is a DVR, plain and simple. It has features that some other DVRs do not have, and some other DVRs have features that Tivo does not have. But the basic functionality, such as scheduling recordings, pausing live TV, fast forwarding, etc are features that are common to all DVRs.
http:///forum/post/2937166
I have a DVR but rarely use it... I don't watch much tv -- except I tivo my scrubs.. I use the terms interchangeable -- when I worked for Directv we installed "tivos" and something about dvrs -- thought they were the same thing but dunno if "tivo" is a service added to a dvr or what.. dont care don't use it much cept for my scrubs
A Tivo is a DVR.
DVR is an applied technology, a genericized term to indicated any device that uses a hard drive or other read/write digital media to do "Time Shifting" (recording content to a storage device while the user watches it at some point behind).
Tivo, ReplayTV, Dish Network DVR, DirectTV DVR, Windows Media Center, MythTV, and cable company DVRs (to name a few major ones) are ALL DVRs.
Tivo is what the company named their product. Through marketing, they made it a household word and convinced people that their product is somehow different than a DVR. Tivo is a DVR, plain and simple. It has features that some other DVRs do not have, and some other DVRs have features that Tivo does not have. But the basic functionality, such as scheduling recordings, pausing live TV, fast forwarding, etc are features that are common to all DVRs.