[mythtv-users] Tivo debuts slimmed-down TV service

[Richard Houser]

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Ben Davis wrote:
| Ben Davis wrote:
|
|> Joseph Caputo wrote:
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|>> I'd be interested to see the hardware specs... wonder if it might make a
|>> decent Myth box?  Of course, based on the current generation of Tivo
|>> hardware, I'd say probably not.
|>>
|>>
|> The idea of putting Linux on a Tivo is pretty new to me..  Is this
|> actually possible??  I mean, it would make much more sense to me
|> buying hardware that's made for TV recording rather than spending
|> almost twice as much building a full-on computer...  Would this really
|> be possible? I would think there would be some serious hardware driver
|> issues...
|
|
| (foot - in - mouth )
| Heh.. I just did a quick search for "Tivo Linux" and I guess tivo uses
| linux on their machines .. Ha! Shows what I know :-p. ..  The cool thing
| is that they make the source code freely available.  Would it be safe to
| say you could take a Tivo and turn it into a MythBox ??  What would be
| the advantages/disadvantages of this as compared to builiding your own
box?
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If all the source is freely available, doesn't that mean you have the
code needed to support the programming feed for users with lifetime
subsciptions that switch from Tivo? (note: I am not one of them)  Or, do
you just mean all the kernel code is freely available?
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