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Looking for cheap TiVo "season pass" equivalent
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Upstate NY (cow country)
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I have a spare mac. dual 867 G4 MDD. It's already hooked up to my LCD HDTV and stereo. Great for iTunes and quicktime/VLC stuff.
What I want to do is spend <$200 and no monthly fee to get some kind of hardware/software setup that will work like TiVo's "Season Pass".
I don't have digital cable yet. I don't have a cable box and don't want one. I just want a cheap and dirty system where I can tell it to always record a given show and not worry about tapes or discs (I already have a DVD recorder).
thanks!
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"Destroy your ego. Trust your brain. Destroy your beliefs. Trust your divinity." -Danny Carey
MacPro Quad 2.66, G4 MDD dual 867, 23" Cinema Display and 17" LCD, G4 Quicksilver dual 800, 12" Powerbook 867, iMac 300 Grape, B&W G3/300 with G4/450 running yellowdog, iPod 5GB, iPod mini, PowerCenter 150, Powercenter 132 tower, Performa 6116, Quadra 700, MacSE, LC II, eMate 300
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What kind of TV input? I agree Miglia is great, I got the TVMiniHD and it is sweeeeet with Eye TV 
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Any kind of TV input. Component. S-video. composite. HDMI. VGA.
From what I've been able to gather on the eyeTV, it doesn't have a "Season Pass" feature.
What software comes with the Miglia? Apparently not EyeTV anymore.
Miglia & EyeTV
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"Destroy your ego. Trust your brain. Destroy your beliefs. Trust your divinity." -Danny Carey
MacPro Quad 2.66, G4 MDD dual 867, 23" Cinema Display and 17" LCD, G4 Quicksilver dual 800, 12" Powerbook 867, iMac 300 Grape, B&W G3/300 with G4/450 running yellowdog, iPod 5GB, iPod mini, PowerCenter 150, Powercenter 132 tower, Performa 6116, Quadra 700, MacSE, LC II, eMate 300
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I mean what kind of source is your TV, satellite, cable, OTA, HiDef Digital, etc...
You can setup a repeat schedule in Eye TV? Its not as smart as TiVo (no repeats and whatnot) but it does weekly shows...
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With the Miglia stuff, you can use TitanTV.com to schedule recordings, or the Miglia software itself.
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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Right now I have analog cable and would like it to stay that way as long as possible.
Thanks for the titantv tip. I had no idea! I just took a look at their site and it appears that you can interface to the miglia or the eyetv products without any additional software. 1-click scheduled recording. Or course this is probably what the eyetv software does. The only thing that's not clear is whether or not you can tell it to record show x all the time, so long as it's not a repeat.
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"Destroy your ego. Trust your brain. Destroy your beliefs. Trust your divinity." -Danny Carey
MacPro Quad 2.66, G4 MDD dual 867, 23" Cinema Display and 17" LCD, G4 Quicksilver dual 800, 12" Powerbook 867, iMac 300 Grape, B&W G3/300 with G4/450 running yellowdog, iPod 5GB, iPod mini, PowerCenter 150, Powercenter 132 tower, Performa 6116, Quadra 700, MacSE, LC II, eMate 300
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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You asked for cheap, so I'll suggest Bittorrent. If you pay for cable, I personally don't see a problem downloading shows you could have watched/recorded, though the law says otherwise. Azureus has a plugin to parse RSS feeds of torrents and will automatically download new episodes of shows you have specified as they appear.
I don't have a need for it myself as I have 2 tuners in my pvr and rarely have conflicts where I can't record something, but I have a friend who does this and he has most shows ready to watch within 2-3 hours of when they air.
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Yes, you can repeat record with Miglia.
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I checked out the miglia and eyetv software. Knowing that I'd like the wife to be able to use this too I bought the eyetv250 based on the software. It doesn't have the full tivo functionality, but it should suffice.
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"Destroy your ego. Trust your brain. Destroy your beliefs. Trust your divinity." -Danny Carey
MacPro Quad 2.66, G4 MDD dual 867, 23" Cinema Display and 17" LCD, G4 Quicksilver dual 800, 12" Powerbook 867, iMac 300 Grape, B&W G3/300 with G4/450 running yellowdog, iPod 5GB, iPod mini, PowerCenter 150, Powercenter 132 tower, Performa 6116, Quadra 700, MacSE, LC II, eMate 300
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