[mythtv-users] It's not the TiVo that she loved...

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 14:49:01 UTC 2006


On 4/6/06, Disconnect <mythtv at gotontheinter.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Marco Nelissen did have cause to say:
>
> > I'm not sure what you think is a "series 1" and a "series 2", but it
> > sounds like you think that a tivo without an encoder is neither series
> > 1 nor 2. That is incorrect. All of the recent tivos are considered
> > "series 2", including the encoder-less DirecTV-tivos, as well as
> > HD-capable tivos.
> > (There is also a series 3 that just came out. It's been spotted on Amazon
> > and a few other sites, but last I checked it was still out of stock)
>
> Just to clarify, there is a series-1 directivo also (SAT-T60). And if anyone
> wants to buy one, pre-hacked with ethernet, let me know. Its currently
> gathering dust. ;)
>
> Series-1 and Series-2 is mostly deliniated by an architecture change
> (between mips and ppc) and capability upgrade (series 2 got usb, among other
> things. Series one just had an almost-isa-bus test connector buried inside
> the box.) There is a series 2.5, but I couldn't tell you off the top of my
> head why that is.

Are the Series-1 DirecTivo's capable of recording HD content or are
they blocked from doing that?

--
Steve


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