[opendtv] Re: ATSC STBs

Junk?  I really liked my NTSC (lifetime sub) Tivo but gave it to my kids 
when I switched to all-HD because it then wasn't worth the cost of 
keeping a land phone line.

Yes, the Tivo had a better user interface and was probably more reliable 
than my MyHD card, though not perfectly so as the Tivo would sometimes 
get its knickers in a knot and have to be reset much like a PC.  Just 
less frequently.

But the main difference was interface.  And I'm a PC guy, watching 
almost all TV and movies on my front projector driven by an HTPC.  That 
means I'm used to a PC interface, used to doing multiple things on 
multiple screens and windows, used to a TitanTV broadband connected 
guide, and generally not dissatisfied with things that are not a simple 
consumer appliance.  Frankly I like my HTPC interface better than my 
Comcast 6412 HD-DVR I had for awhile.  Plus I have the ability to 
permanently archive HD.

Exactly which ATSC DVR would you hold up as an example that makes an 
HTPC "junk"?  Please exclude those requiring a subscription to any pay 
TV service provider.

- Tom





Kon Wilms wrote:
>>Actually I've purchased a half dozen PCHD cards.  The last couple (MyHD 
>>and F3Q) can even do trick play real time time shifting like Tivo. 
>>And the hardware decoding MyHD would even work fine in a very 
>>inexpensive computer these days.
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> It would, but please, in comparison with a Tivo, these are junk.
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> Cheers
> Kon
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