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blackstar · Apr 20, 2005, 10:23 AM

Hi, anybody uses TIVO here? i was looking into the series 2 with a dvd recorder. Is it worth it, or are there better options?

starman · Apr 20, 2005, 10:32 AM

Can't live without it. It will, and I mean WILL change your life.

Mike

blackstar · Apr 20, 2005, 10:35 AM

yeah, but i'm looking into it because of the dvd recorder too, does it work reliable, and how much space is on the disc of the tivo box?

JHromadka · Apr 20, 2005, 10:35 AM

...From my cold, dead hands

DigitalEl · Apr 20, 2005, 10:39 AM

Brilliantly put by starman:
Can't live without it. It will, and I mean WILL change your life.

What he said. Can't even imagine TV without it. It's sheer pain watching the tube w/o it after 4 years with TiVo.

ort888 · Apr 20, 2005, 10:47 AM

TiVo is the best thing EVER.

blackstar · Apr 20, 2005, 11:48 AM

nobody owns the tivo dvd recorder combination?

ort888 · Apr 20, 2005, 11:57 AM

Up until very recently they were about $900 bucks, so most people stayed away.

I hear that they work great though.

blackstar · Apr 20, 2005, 01:13 PM

but it looks like an awesome combination

GSixZero · Apr 20, 2005, 01:23 PM

Tivo rocks!

dillerX · Apr 20, 2005, 01:33 PM

I have the MOXI Box from Charter. Can't believe how much stuff I record AND WATCH now.

Love it!

SSharon · Apr 20, 2005, 02:03 PM

I have a four year old combination direct TV Tivo box by sony and its great. At school I use Eye-TV and I really find it hard to watch TV that I can't pause. I don't care for archive as much as I care for a live tv buffer, so the dvd burner doesn't interest me so much.

awaspaas · Apr 20, 2005, 02:16 PM

Better option: http://forums.macnn.com/89/macnn-lounge/251893/my-experience-with-mythtv/

Mafia · Apr 20, 2005, 03:13 PM

tivo series 2 now lets you pull your show off the box onto your computer and burn it on dvd. windoze only for right now but a mac versino should be out soon. pretty tough encryption tho. but BELIEVE ME you can get around it. i take a lot of the new shows off, cut the commercials with final cut, and burn it with toast.

Dale Sorel · Apr 20, 2005, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by awaspaas

Better option: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=251893

I don't think so... get a TiVo no matter what

kellybelly · Apr 20, 2005, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Mafia

windoze only for right now but a mac versino should be out soon.

Um ... not.

Kilbey · Apr 20, 2005, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by awaspaas

Better option: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=251893

Ummm... NO.

Mafia · Apr 20, 2005, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by kellybelly

Um ... not.

well whatever, thats what virtual pc is for.

ManOfSteal · Apr 20, 2005, 07:52 PM

The Humax Series 2 one is "only" $399 I believe...not bad compared to what they used to be.

iDriveX · Apr 20, 2005, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Mafia

well whatever, thats what virtual pc is for.

Except that it costs a decent amount of money, will about 30-45 minutes to transfer one half hour show to your Mac, then set up a shared folder in VPC, download and buy Dr. DiVx (because you can't watch the show in VPC because it's so slow), then it'll take about 3 hours to convert it to an AVI file, which can then be played, very shoddily in VLC. So if you are willing to not pirate the software and pay about $400 and put about 4 hours into converting every half hour show you want to watch then yes, it's a perfect solution.

TiVo, love the idea, couldn't live with out it, but they've really stabbed Mac users in the back. For more see the tivocommunity.com forum. It's a raging issue right now with the way they've handled this thing.

awaspaas · Apr 20, 2005, 08:35 PM

Wow, you weenies are afraid of a little Linux? Jeez its not rocket science or anything.

Mafia · Apr 20, 2005, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by iDriveX

Except that it costs a decent amount of money, will about 30-45 minutes to transfer one half hour show to your Mac, then set up a shared folder in VPC, download and buy Dr. DiVx (because you can't watch the show in VPC because it's so slow), then it'll take about 3 hours to convert it to an AVI file, which can then be played, very shoddily in VLC. So if you are willing to not pirate the software and pay about $400 and put about 4 hours into converting every half hour show you want to watch then yes, it's a perfect solution.

TiVo, love the idea, couldn't live with out it, but they've really stabbed Mac users in the back. For more see the tivocommunity.com forum. It's a raging issue right now with the way they've handled this thing.

actually not. i can't speak for virtual pc because i used my windows machine. it took about 30 - 45 minutes to transfer i'll give you that. but its already in mpeg2 format so you don't really have to convert it to avi, just break the encryption. this literally takes less then 5 minutes. there are plenty of ways to do this (google). then you have a file that will play on your mac. in order to edit commercials i used quicktime to convert to mov (15 min tops). your right there is a huge set back for the mac community. but besides transfering it really is an easy process to get a working file for the mac. of course this assuming you have a copy of virtual pc and or a pc.

blackstar · Apr 21, 2005, 06:49 AM

so whats the difference between the toshiba and humax boxes?