[mythtv-users] Tivo debuts slimmed-down TV service

[Ben Davis]

Ben Davis wrote:

> Joseph Caputo wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested to see the hardware specs... wonder if it might make a
>> decent Myth box?  Of course, based on the current generation of Tivo
>> hardware, I'd say probably not.
>>  
>>
> The idea of putting Linux on a Tivo is pretty new to me..  Is this 
> actually possible??  I mean, it would make much more sense to me 
> buying hardware that's made for TV recording rather than spending 
> almost twice as much building a full-on computer...  Would this really 
> be possible? I would think there would be some serious hardware driver 
> issues... 

(foot - in - mouth )
Heh.. I just did a quick search for "Tivo Linux" and I guess tivo uses 
linux on their machines .. Ha! Shows what I know :-p. ..  The cool thing 
is that they make the source code freely available.  Would it be safe to 
say you could take a Tivo and turn it into a MythBox ??  What would be 
the advantages/disadvantages of this as compared to builiding your own box?