PluggedIn: Step Aside TiVo, Here Comes Freevo
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This article PluggedIn: Step Aside TiVo, Here Comes Freevo made me ask why bother? You can get a TIVO now for less than $150, and you can get rid of the monthly fees by buying a lifetime subscription for $250 so you're looking at a total off $400 (or if like me, a box of green tea). Lets look at the PC option, you've got to get a cheap PC with big hard drive($250), you've got to get a VIDEO IN and OUT card ($75), software to manage the recording ($50), sort out some type of remote control for your pc ($35), already up to $410. Then you have to set it up yourself.
This all seems like a lot of effort when you can just get a TIVO, which is super reliable, has a really really easy to use intereface and just works, no Windows crashes, no money to Microsoft for the privilege. Just because you can build it yourself, does it really mean you want to?
This article PluggedIn: Step Aside TiVo, Here Comes Freevo made me ask why bother? You can get a TIVO now for less than $150, and you can get rid of the monthly fees by buying a lifetime subscription for $250 so you're looking at a total off $400 (or if like me, a box of green tea). Lets look at the PC option, you've got to get a cheap PC with big hard drive($250), you've got to get a VIDEO IN and OUT card ($75), software to manage the recording ($50), sort out some type of remote control for your pc ($35), already up to $410. Then you have to set it up yourself.
This all seems like a lot of effort when you can just get a TIVO, which is super reliable, has a really really easy to use intereface and just works, no Windows crashes, no money to Microsoft for the privilege. Just because you can build it yourself, does it really mean you want to?
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2 - TV cards are around $40-50
3 - software to manage the recording? You've already got Suse, don't you?
4 - remote control? puhlleeease.....
5 - you're missing - DVD burner, so you can burn all those Nebraska football games you've recorded to DVD so you can reply them during the off-season (which is now) when you're depressed because there's been NO meaningful sport on the telly for bloody friggin' months, and nothing is more uplifting than watching a game where we've kicked CU's ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haven't done this yet due to the home budget committee's lack of approval AND the fact that Dish Network had a deal where we could replace our old crappy receiver with a new PVR for only $80.
And the fact that football season isn't here yet. I could even record them games I'd be missing. Why?
WHY NOT????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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