[mythtv-users] It's not the TiVo that she loved...

[Marco Nelissen]

>
>On Apr 5, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>
>>> I suspect you would have a lot more than a "hickup" if you tried to
>>> play HD with a series 1 or series 2 TiVo, I think it would roll over
>>> and die.
>>>
>>> Of course it wasn't designed for HD.
>>
>> HD-capable tivos have been available for quite some time now.
>
>Yes, but not the series 1 and series 2. Correct me if I am wrong, but  
>aren't the only HD TiVos units that rely on the content already being  
>encoded into mpeg? I do not know of a TiVo that can take baseband  
>HDTV, either component, DVI or whatever, and encode it to mpeg to  
>write to a disk, or any units that can write unencoded HD to any  
>storage medium.

I'm not sure what you think is a "series 1" and a "series 2", but it
sounds like you think that a tivo without an encoder is neither series
1 nor 2. That is incorrect. All of the recent tivos are considered
"series 2", including the encoder-less DirecTV-tivos, as well as
HD-capable tivos.
(There is also a series 3 that just came out. It's been spotted on Amazon
and a few other sites, but last I checked it was still out of stock)

>AFAIK any HD-capable mpeg encoder is way out of any normal consumer's  
>price range.

Fortunately, no "normal consumer" needs an HD-capable mpeg encoder,
since the signals they're receiving will already be encoded.