[mythtv-users] prebuilt pvrs for developers benefit?

[Jack Burghardt]

The hardware is cheap you can get mini box for 150 cpu for 50 memory 50 and
nice tv card from 20  to 200. hard drive 120GB is 70
Now with tivo you are limited to what you can record and you have pay fee to
get programing  liftime is 299 for one unit so when you upgrade your tivo
you have to pay another 299.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rudy Zijlstra" <mythtv at edsons.demon.nl>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] prebuilt pvrs for developers benefit?


> Peter Valdemar Morch wrote:
>
> > James Orr james-at-orrwhat.net |Lists| wrote:
> >
> >> The problem I see with selling prebuilt Myth boxes is ... who is your
> >> market?
> >>
> >> Somebody who just wants a PVR will buy a TiVo.
> >
> >
> > I'm living in Denmark, where you just can't buy a TiVo, or ReplayTV
> > for that matter. As far as I know, TiVo is a US only thing, and they
> > are experimenting in the UK. So here in Denmark, at least, there is a
> > market for MythTV.
> >
> > Next question is of course what happens if its a success. Will TiVo
> > then come and wipe out the competition (us!) with their much cheaper
> > equipment once the market has been cultivated? I would...
> >
> > But TiVo is not available everywhere, unfortunately. I had a TiVo when
> > I lived in the US! Besides, MythTV is more fun...
> >
> > Peter
> >
> Also,
>
> there is the question of amount of storage, and of features. With MythTv:
> - you can have as much storage as you are willing to pay for (I
> currently have about 1/2 Tb storage for MythTv from a RAID5 - we tend to
> record and view way later).
> - you can have many frontends (I am using a frontend at the TV, but also
> several PCs with just the frontend so you can view TV while workig on
> the PC).
> - more than 1 tuner. Usefull when several programs need recording at once.
>
> None of these possible with Tivo...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rudy
>


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