<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 5, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Tortise wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT size="2">Dear List</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Has anyone progressed this idea?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">I think S1 TiVo's (with a NIC eg Cachecard added) could make great SD MythTV front-end. (HD - probably not?) Just like an XBox, MediaMVP etc.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">There are lots of them around.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">The remote seems the best in the business so all the hardware is there. The tuners would presumably become obsolete in this role. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">These boxes are quiet. It might even be possible to quieten them even more by replacing the HDD with Solid state media. (Even do without by downloading OS off the server - probably need something small to initiate this however?)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">There are many TiVo users who are likely to move to MythTV at some point. This would be a great way to re-cycle the hardware!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Seems I am not the first to think of this! <A href="http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2005/09/14/tivo-meets-mythtv/">http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2005/09/14/tivo-meets-mythtv/</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><FONT size="2"></FONT><FONT size="2"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><FONT size="2">Anyone progressed this idea any further?</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>You are definitely not the first to think of this:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.16">http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.16</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>