[mythtv-users] OT: TiVo series 3

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 18, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:

>> looks interesting. definitely not as amazing as MythTV in many
>> regards, but unless Myth finds a way to record HD content that "they
>> don't want you to record", this may give us HD users a viable option.
>
> The only reason I'm using mythtv instead of tivo is because I  
> didn't want
> to spend a bunch of money on already-obsolete hardware (HD DirectTivo)
> AND be locked into a 2-year contract with DirecTV.
> For all the "amazing" things mythtv does, it still can't hold a candle
> to tivo as far as ease of use goes.

"Ease of Use" ?????

Just how "easy" is it to make  DVD from a recorded program that will  
play on your grandmother's DVD player ??

This is what made me junk my TiVo. Not only do they want you to pay  
more $$$ for crappy software, but the process is a PIA on top of  
that. Having to enter your ID in order to watch a recording, being  
"required" to have a machine running Windows, putting up with  
transfers that are tortoise slow so the puny CPU can encrypt them,  
it's crazy.

I realize that this is all put on TiVo by the evil MPAA forces, but  
it's still not "easy" in my book, I can have a DVD from Myth in  
minutes, with no transfers, passcode inputting, separate machine and  
OS, or the possibility of somebody deciding that you can't put  
certain programs on DVD.

You would think that something with "recorder" in its name would make  
it easier to make a "recording" :-))