[mythtv-users] TiVo (S1) as a MythTV Frontend

jason maxwell decepticon at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 14:49:54 UTC 2007


to take this topic in a different direction, has anyone managed to
successfully shoehorn a small PC cleanly into a tivo case for use as a
frontend mythbox? If so, I might dig out the old series 2 and some
fresh dremel bits and give it a whirl.
-J

On 2/6/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Tortise wrote:
>
> >
> > I have been looking at the MediaMVP also, they seem incomplete in
> > their functionality at this point in time.  Why buy these when one
> > has TiVo's?  (Apart from the obvious that they do not yet work!)
>
> I played around with an MVP because I had one already. They do have
> some advantages over  a TiVo in that they are totally silent, very
> small and consume little power. All I wanted to do was view
> recordings so the limitations didn't bother me.
>
> I'm not suggesting anyone "buy" a TiVo to use as a front end, and
> even if it could be made to work as a F/E it would also be
> "incomplete in their functionality" for several reasons. An XBox
> might be a better solution, or a Mac Mini, it all depends on what you
> want to do.
>
> But a lot of us have these old TiVo units hanging around, as you said
> in your original post it is a shame they can't be more useful.
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