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ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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I'm going with the TiVo... Since Comcast's monthly DVR fees are now just as high as Tivo's. Grr.
 
TwiceOver

TwiceOver

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Dec 20, 2002
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TiVo. Hands down. Every day of the week. Without question. Etc...

Seriously, it's embarrassing when at friend's houses. DirectTV's DVR is absolute shit.
 
Kyle

Kyle

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DVR...never tried tivo so don't know what I'm missing I suppose
 
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Wreckem

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My cable co has co-branded tivo premieres as their cable boxes. DVR fee stayed the same ($5). Hopefully they get the new 4 tuner units sometime early next year. They are supposed to have whole home systems sometime this year.
 
TastesLikeChicken

TastesLikeChicken

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MarkXIX said:
Ceton card + WMC + Xbox 360 = FTW
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^This, except I use a Linksys DMA2100 as an extender instead of the 360. A Ceton card pays for itself in a year or two so there is no monthly guide fee like a TIVO, and it has 4 tuners. Slap it in an mATX system with a BD drive, TMT5, and network connectivity and you have a small system that can do everything including Live TV, DVR, BD, streaming music/video, and even browsing the web through your TV.
 
MarkXIX

MarkXIX

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TastesLikeChicken said:
^This, except I use a Linksys DMA2100 as an extender instead of the 360. A Ceton card pays for itself in a year or two so there is no monthly guide fee like a TIVO, and it has 4 tuners. Slap it in an mATX system with a BD drive, TMT5, and network connectivity and you have a small system that can do everything including Live TV, DVR, BD, streaming music/video, and even browsing the web through your TV.
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Then, when you consider available torrents, this is truly the most flexible and complete solution.

The only thing missing is picture in picture honestly, but I can do without given all the other great features.
 
Squisher

Squisher

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Aug 17, 2000
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I'm sure this belongs in another forum, but while the iron's hot I'm going to ask, are you guys talking about a HTPC with a multi stream tuner card? How does a Xbox figure into this? And, with all of comcasts digital channels being encrypted how are you getting a feed off of cable?
 
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BornStar

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Squisher said:
I'm sure this belongs in another forum, but while the iron's hot I'm going to ask, are you guys talking about a HTPC with a multi stream tuner card? How does a Xbox figure into this? And, with all of comcasts digital channels being encrypted how are you getting a feed off of cable?
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The Ceton card is a quad tuner CableCard tuner which enables you to view the encrypted streams from the cable company. You need a provider that supports CableCard which all of the large ones do. The 360 is an extender so you can view all of your content on another TV (my HTPC is connected to my living room TV and I've got a 360 in my bedroom to extend the functionality).
 
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Wreckem

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BornStar said:
The Ceton card is a quad tuner CableCard tuner which enables you to view the encrypted streams from the cable company. You need a provider that supports CableCard which all of the large ones do. The 360 is an extender so you can view all of your content on another TV (my HTPC is connected to my living room TV and I've got a 360 in my bedroom to extend the functionality).
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I am pretty sure all Cable Co.'s are required by federal law to support cable cards.
 
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BornStar

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Wreckem said:
I am pretty sure all Cable Co.'s are required by federal law to support cable cards.
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I've heard it's cheaper to pay the fine than support them for the smaller providers. Also, certain providers like U-Verse don't have any provision for CableCard. FIOS supports it in certain markets but not all, I don't believe.
 
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Wreckem

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BornStar said:
I've heard it's cheaper to pay the fine than support them for the smaller providers. Also, certain providers like U-Verse don't have any provision for CableCard. FIOS supports it in certain markets but not all, I don't believe.
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Yeah the FCC isn't so great on enforcement. And IPTV doesn't require CableCard Support(because IPTV doesn't work with CableCards).

My Cable Co. didn't support cable cards unless you harassed the hell out of them. That was until they adopted Tivo boxes as their set top boxes.

The standard is changing soon(soon is relative for regulations) so I am sure Cable Cos. will drag their feet with that too.
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

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Oct 9, 2002
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I use a Silicondust HDHomeRun Prime 3-tuner device (CableCARD), connected to my home router. I have two Windows 7 HTPCs that use the tuner pool over the network.

The Windows Media Center interface is excellent. I have not wanted a TiVo or cableco DVR. I don't own an XBOX 360, so I don't know how well the extender works.

I work for the local cableco, so I get all packages and premium channels for free. I still don't watch them.

I also have two HDHomeRun dual tuners from before the Prime was released, and most of our HD channels are unencrypted (even popular cable networks).
 
Fritzo

Fritzo

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Jan 3, 2001
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TwiceOver said:
TiVo. Hands down. Every day of the week. Without question. Etc...

Seriously, it's embarrassing when at friend's houses. DirectTV's DVR is absolute shit.
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Dish Network's isn't too bad. It handles three tuners nicely and has a lot of options. It just doesn't have the Playskool interface that Tivo has.

Tivo doesn't work on Dish anyway.
 
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