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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:54 PM, jedi <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:23:06PM -0500, Sean Goodpasture wrote:<br>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Mario Limonciello <<a href="mailto:mario.mailing@gmail.com">mario.mailing@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>><br>> > Sean Goodpasture wrote:<br>> > > So I finally got a Firewire card to test with the Motorola 6200... It<br>> > > works decently, except that stupid Time Warner has marked dang near<br>
> > > everything with the no copy or copy once flag so I can't record much of<br>> > > anything.<br>> > ><br>> > > I can understand the movie channels, but Noggin? Seriously?!<br><br>
</div> Man that's low. That's basically PBS. It's not even the History Channel<br>or Food Network.<br><br>[deletia]<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> ><br>> ><br>> I'm in the Dallas area, and I gave up, returned my receivers and lowered my<br>> tier to analog only. I'm closely watching the new Hauppage devices. At<br>
> $250 each, I'm not sure if I'd get them or not. For $250, I'm most of the<br>> way to a Tivo with a couple cable cards...<br><br></div> Yeah but with a Tivo you are stuck storing really large MPEG2 files.<br>
That's going to wipe out your storage fast. This will be the case even<br>with the decked out Weaknees unit, never even mind a stock Tivo.<br><br> Have you seen the size of some of the files that an OTA capture can<br>
generate? Even with compression they are rather huge.<br><br> Having old style S1 compression really is a dramatic advantage over<br>any other newer sort of Tivo.<br>
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<div>I mostly record HD over QAM (so bout 8-9 gigs/hr). I've got a 500 gig drive and it rarely gets over 60% full.</div>
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<div>Storage space isn't a big deal (a 1tb drive is what, $180 these days?)</div>