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

Disconnect mythtv at gotontheinter.net
Thu Apr 6 15:00:06 UTC 2006


On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Steven Adeff did have cause to say:

> On 4/6/06, Disconnect <mythtv at gotontheinter.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Marco Nelissen did have cause to say:
> >
> > > 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)
> >
> > Just to clarify, there is a series-1 directivo also (SAT-T60). And if anyone
> > wants to buy one, pre-hacked with ethernet, let me know. Its currently
> > gathering dust. ;)
> >
> > Series-1 and Series-2 is mostly deliniated by an architecture change
> > (between mips and ppc) and capability upgrade (series 2 got usb, among other
> > things. Series one just had an almost-isa-bus test connector buried inside
> > the box.) There is a series 2.5, but I couldn't tell you off the top of my
> > head why that is.
> 
> Are the Series-1 DirecTivo's capable of recording HD content or are
> they blocked from doing that?

They aren't 'blocked'. They are just incapable. (In theory you might be able 
to put hd content 'by force' into a series 2, but it still only has svideo 
outputs. And series 1 is way too underpowered for hd in any form.)  And I 
can't find a good summary of tivo evolution - there is one out there, I've 
seen it, but its not showing up, and the alt.org wiki (one likely place) is 
still full of spam.


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