[mythtv-users] using replay's hardware

[J. Donavan Stanley]

John P. Poet wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Kyle Rose wrote:
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>>"John P. Poet" <john at BlueSkyTours.com> writes:
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>>(1) No commercial detection
>>(2) God-awful slow interface (50 MHz PPC!  Ack!)
>>(3) Inability to deal with DirecTV's fucking-over of RCA receiver
>>    owners (more on that via email, if you're interested)
>>(4) No categorizing of recordings, even by program title
>>(5) No sharing of programs between machines or people
>>(6) No ethernet support
>>(7) No remote access or streaming to remote front ends
>>(8) No burning of program data to VCD/DVD or trancode to open formats
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>>And the list goes on.  Lots of these (5, 6) are resolved by add-ons
>>like tivoweb and tivo/turbonet, but they are hacks that TiVo could
>>disable with a single software push.  That's too fragile for my taste.
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>Okay, but the ReplayTV 4XXX series does not have any of these problems
>(except maybe for #3, I don't know anything about that).
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hmmm so your replay box can share / stream content to other machines, 
and store things on DVD?

Granted Myth has some rough edges, but you can't really compare it to 
Replay / Tivo, neither of them come close to matching the capabilities 
of Myth machines.