[LINK] TIVO [was: Midnight rush to buy iPhones

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:12 AM 11/07/2008, Scott Howard wrote:
>And while we're at it, what's this bloody TV thing that everyone keeps going
>on about?? And now, today, I heard something about a World Wide Wab, or
>something like that?

Do you mean TiVo? I think it's a set-top hard-drive box on steroids. 
That is it has a computer program inside that munches metadata to 
help the owner make program recording decisions. Whoopee. I wonder 
how much value-add that really is. One thing it does have is two 
receiving tuners, HD. Price: $700. WAY high. Here's the website: 
http://www.tivo.com.au/
and another with FAQ type info: 
http://barinya.com/australia/gadgets_and_electric/tivo-australia.htm
Reason for release now: The Olympics.

I bought a hard-drive STB with SD digital tuner a few years ago for 
about $240 and like it fine. I use the yourtv website on Sunday and 
set it up for the week along with my DVD recorder for times there are 
two simultaneous programs I want to capture [ABC and commercial for 
instance] or I'm going to be out for the evening. I can also playback 
and feed the harddrive programs to the DVD if I want to save it forever.

Jan


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