[mythtv-users] MythTV to become obsolete?

[Kelly P. Waxler]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Shay - MythTV wrote:

> At 01:51 PM 9/15/2003, you wrote:
> >Shay - MythTV said:
> > > At 01:21 PM 9/15/2003, you wrote:
> > >>Shay said:
> > >> > So $600 for 2 TiVo's and $600 more for the 2 lifetime service
> > >> agreements
> > >> > is
> > >> > better?  And then there not even going to be worth anything in 1-3
> > >> years
> > >> > because of updated TiVo's?  I might be off on the prices.. I forget
> > >> what
> > >> > they are exactly..
> > >>
> > >>Wait a sec here...two Tivos?  The two tuner cards are for multiple
> > >> streams
> > >>to support live tv pause, etc., on one tv, which I believe one Tivo will
> > >>do as well....
> > >
> > > You only need 1 tuner card and 1 graphics card for live tv pause, or to
> > > record a show while watching a previously recorded show.  If you want to
> > > record 1 show and also have live tv pause then you need 2 tuner cards, or
> > > 2
> > > tivo's.  1 TiVo handles 1 stream.  2 handles 2 streams.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something else you are trying to do?  Why specifically did
> > > you
> > > buy 2 tuner cards?
> >
> >Shay,
> >
> >I wanted to be able to use live tv features while recording a show...or to
> >record two shows at once.
> >
> >I thought Tivos has this capability by default (i.e. two tuners?)?
>
> They don't I'm afraid.  I haven't heard of all of the v3 features, but 2
> tuners is a huge request.
>
> So now you should feel better about having 2 tuners.. ;)  You will have a
> better machine than a TiVo..  for awhile.. still probably cheaper than what
> TiVo will eventually come up with.
>
> -Shay

Actually, there is a way described in the Tivo setup manual to do both, watch
live TV and record a different show. They suggest that if your TV is cable
ready, that you use a splitter, direct on the cable coax line, so that one feeds
through the cable box into the Tivo and one feeds directly into an input on your
TV.

The one problem I can see is that without the cable box, the cable channels on
my TV are all screwy, so that instead of NBC being channel 11, it's channel 22,
etc.

-Kelly

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