[mythtv-users] Converting a TiVO Series 2 to a Myth Box?

[George Styles]

How about a video sender? transmit from pc to tv... around £50-100 here in 
UK.

http://www.letsautomate.com/index.cfm?Nav=IRAccessories&

May play havoc with your wifi tho

g


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ewan Grantham" <ewan.grantham at gmail.com>
To: "Mark L. Cukier" <mark at pemicro.com>
Cc: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Converting a TiVO Series 2 to a Myth Box?


> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:32:16 -0500, Mark L. Cukier <mark at pemicro.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Though TiVo would make a great mythTV box, unfortunately their hardware
>> is proprietary. There's also some issue with the version of Linux their
>> using not being fully public etc etc.
>>
>> I think the short answer on this one is, you can't do it.
>
> Based on the lack of any further input, I'm gathering that no is the
> canonical answer. If that's the case, and if my TV and Cable Box and
> DVD player and TiVO are at one end of the living room, and my main
> system is at the other, is there any other solution that isn't
> horribly expensive to getting video back and forth? I currently have a
> wireless network setup, but as it's 802.11b I'm thinking that's a
> little slow. And running cable across the room seems like a disaster
> waiting to happen with three young ones and a dog. Moving the computer
> might be an option, but there's all these bookcases I would also have
> to move...
>
> FWIW, the main computer is a 1 GhZ AMD Duron with 384 Megs of RAM and
> 580 Gigs of HD running a Debian distribution (Linspire 4.5). It does
> have an ATI AIW Radeon card which I assume could handle some of the
> Myth work if I could get the signal to it...
>
> Thanks,
> Ewan
>


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