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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Michigan
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I am seriously considering buying one of these units but I am concerned about DRM restrictions. Could some people chime in and help me out with this decision? I want a unit that I can record some morning shows while I am at work. Both do this. But this is the catch if I like the show I want to have the option of transferring it to my PB - I understand that Tivo to go is coming to the mac but I want to avoid the proprietary software that I will need to dl to view the show - let along convert it to mpeg4 (h264). El gato sw is no good to me cause I dont have a fast mac and I bring my PB to work. Also concerned about Tivo placed commercials while skipping over tv commercial and the problem with slow channel switching.
tivo has a powerpc architecture - hackable (although its over my head)
RTV- dont know
older RTV model (4000 and 5000) (with commercial skip ) arent sold and cost more that current models on ebay...
help...
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Pismo 400 | Powerbook 1.5 GHz | MacPro 2.66/6GB/7300GT
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: USA
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You watch TV at work? 
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Norristown, PA
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Well, I have a Replay TV and love it. I chose it over the Tivo because it had a couple features that were standard that I was going to pay extra for with the Tivo at the time. Specifically, Networking and Online Management. I could connect it through my router and forgo the phone line and I can add or delete shows online at myreplaytv.com.
A program called MacReplayTV will allow you to connect to the replay over your LAN and transfer shows to your Mac. I've done this many times with my iBook over my Airport connection.
And all RTV's have 30 sec skip to get through commercials.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: GR, MI
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I'll give my vote for the ReplayTV. I got one a few years ago and now I can't imagine not having it. It actually made my life better. I stopped running my life around TV schedules. I download shows and take them with me on the road. I actually watch less TV now. ReplayTV records all the shows I want then when I have the time or feel like watching TV there is always something worth watching and I don't just flip channels.
I think ReplayTV still has the lifetime subscription, too. It was about $250, but hey no monthly fee. I've had my ReplayTV for over 2 years if I was paying monthly that would be around $350 I'd payed so far.
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"This is fun, right?"
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Utah
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I have a DirecTivo unit for Direct TV & love it!
I hacked it though, replacing the stock 40GB with a 120GB, and also added a second 120, for nearly 300hours of capacity, also added a network card/Cache card (added a 512MB stick of RAM to speed things up)
Can access it over the net, have 2 tuners taping at same time. It's Snappy!
No experiance with ReplayTV, but after seeing Adelphia Cables lousy DVR system, I love my Tivo's simple menus even more!
Edit---
Also have lifetime subscription on it as well...
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Work: 2008 8x3.2 MacPro, 8800GT, 16GB ram, zillions of HDs. (video editing)
Home: 2008 24" 2.8 iMac, 2TB Int, 4GB ram.
Road: 2009 13" 2.26 Macbook Pro, 8GB ram & 640GB WD blue internal
Retired to BOINC only: My trusty never-gonna-die 12" iBook G4 1.25
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