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

[Steven Adeff]

On 4/6/06, Disconnect <mythtv at gotontheinter.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Steven Adeff did have cause to say:
>
> > 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?
>
> They aren't 'blocked'. They are just incapable. (In theory you might be able
> to put hd content 'by force' into a series 2, but it still only has svideo
> outputs. And series 1 is way too underpowered for hd in any form.)  And I
> can't find a good summary of tivo evolution - there is one out there, I've
> seen it, but its not showing up, and the alt.org wiki (one likely place) is
> still full of spam.

I'm just thinking in terms of capturing the mpeg stream and ripping it
to a computer, never to actually be played back on the TiVo... I had a
series 1 stand alone that I hacked and did a lot of captures/backup
with it. If a series-1 DirecTivo can record a DirecTV HD stream and
allow me to copy the recording, I'd definitely be interested in such a
thing...

--
Steve