[Cialug] OT: Tivo

[david l goodrich]

Now that I'm leaving Des Moines, I'm not sure my opinion counts...

But shouldn't a LUG be presenting on something GPL like MythTV instead of
something closed like Tivo?
  --david

On Tue, June 26, 2007 2:39 pm, Tim Wilson wrote:
> Ya know, with all this talk about Tivo, maybe that would be a good topic
> for
> a meeting.  How does that sound to everyone?  I'd be willing to give a
> demo,
> and even bring in my standalone Series 1 for people to look at.
>
> Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, my laptop did die (it appears to be
> the
> video "card").  I think I can boot it long enough to pull the meeting
> notes
> off, so I'm going to try to do that tomorrow night.
>
> On 6/26/07, Claus <cniesen at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/26/2007 10:37 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>> > Ah, right you are. I can't just drop the drives in a new unit and
>> > recover my recordings.  I talked to a guy at weaknees and he is 90%
>> sure
>> > it's hard drive failure anyway.  One way to find out quickly is to
>> > simply put another drive with a newly formated OS6.2 and see if it
>> > boots.  I guess the first thing todo is verify one of the drives died
>> > and if so I'll be in the market for a big IDE drive.
>> >
>> > --Tony
>>
>> I upgraded my TiVo to a Seagate DB35 drive.  I choose that drive since
>> they weren't any more expensive than regular desktop Seagate drives and
>> I had to buy one anyway.  These drives are designed with DVR in mind and
>> I hoped that they will keep the system quieter.  So far no complains
>> about reliability nor noise.  The only problem is that TiVo records to
>> many shows now and I don't have enough time to watch them. :)
>>
>> Right now I'm on a Seagate trip since I had WD and IBM drives fail on me
>> but no Seagate drive for many years.  My opinion might change tomorrow,
>> who knows how lucky I'll stay.
>>
>>    Claus
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