Comments on: Is TiVo that great? http://the-river.net/2005/11/08/is-tivo-that-great/ The personal professional blog of Pamela Parker (Caird) -- musings on marketing, advertising, media and technology. Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:24:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The River » Blog Archive » iTunes needs a Web interface http://the-river.net/2005/11/08/is-tivo-that-great/comment-page-1/#comment-200 The River » Blog Archive » iTunes needs a Web interface Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:26:19 +0000 http://the-river.net/2005/11/08/is-tivo-that-great/#comment-200 [...] thing I love about my TiVo service is that I can go to the Web interface (still not as good as the ReplayTV service was, but pretty [...] [...] thing I love about my TiVo service is that I can go to the Web interface (still not as good as the ReplayTV service was, but pretty [...]

]]> By: Tom K http://the-river.net/2005/11/08/is-tivo-that-great/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Tom K Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:11:59 +0000 http://the-river.net/2005/11/08/is-tivo-that-great/#comment-69 Definitely the right choice -- I keep using my regular definition Tivo even though I have a Motorola HD DVR -- it's just that much better. Definitely the right choice — I keep using my regular definition Tivo even though I have a Motorola HD DVR — it’s just that much better.

]]> By: MegaZone http://the-river.net/2005/11/08/is-tivo-that-great/comment-page-1/#comment-68 MegaZone Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:16:49 +0000 http://the-river.net/2005/11/08/is-tivo-that-great/#comment-68 I definitely think TiVo is that great. I run: http://www.livejournal.com/community/tivolovers/ and maintain this list of TiVo resources: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=tivolovers DVR to DVR, I think TiVo has more features and power than ReplayTV. With the 5.x software ReplayTV made their scheduling more TiVo-like, but I think TiVo's system of Season Passes, Auto-Record Wish Lists, and the priority manager make for a *fantastic* system. Wish lists are especially powerful, and from what I've seen of RTV, and reading their docs, they don't really have the same thing. TiVo also has a ToDo list where you can see all of the upcoming recordings, which is something I know RTV users have wanted. Above and beyond the basic DVR functionality TiVo supports music playback over a network as well as photo viewing over the network (no need to set aside drive space and copy the files over like on RTV). Copying shows from TiVo to a PC and back is officially supported - TiVoToGo. Like RTV TiVo also has web based scheduling - only you can schedule recordings within 15 minutes if the unit is on a network, no day blackout as on RTV. And you can schedule recordings from within AOL, and now from Yahoo TV, as well. TiVo has also been testing broadband content delivery, and we'll be seeing more content available that way too. And then there is Home Media Engine - with HME you can download 3rd party applications to your PC and access them from the TiVo - media players, news readers, RSS aggregators, movie listings, weather, etc. There are some hosted online - such as here: http://www.apps.tv/ And others you run locally - the best is Galleon: http://galleon.sourceforge.net/html/index.html I don't know if there is site with a good current comparison, but there are older comparisons: http://www.pvrcompare.com/ TiVos are also easy to hack and upgrade if that's your thing. I definitely think TiVo is that great. I run: http://www.livejournal.com/community/tivolovers/ and maintain this list of TiVo resources: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=tivolovers

DVR to DVR, I think TiVo has more features and power than ReplayTV. With the 5.x software ReplayTV made their scheduling more TiVo-like, but I think TiVo’s system of Season Passes, Auto-Record Wish Lists, and the priority manager make for a *fantastic* system. Wish lists are especially powerful, and from what I’ve seen of RTV, and reading their docs, they don’t really have the same thing. TiVo also has a ToDo list where you can see all of the upcoming recordings, which is something I know RTV users have wanted.

Above and beyond the basic DVR functionality TiVo supports music playback over a network as well as photo viewing over the network (no need to set aside drive space and copy the files over like on RTV). Copying shows from TiVo to a PC and back is officially supported – TiVoToGo. Like RTV TiVo also has web based scheduling – only you can schedule recordings within 15 minutes if the unit is on a network, no day blackout as on RTV. And you can schedule recordings from within AOL, and now from Yahoo TV, as well. TiVo has also been testing broadband content delivery, and we’ll be seeing more content available that way too.

And then there is Home Media Engine – with HME you can download 3rd party applications to your PC and access them from the TiVo – media players, news readers, RSS aggregators, movie listings, weather, etc. There are some hosted online – such as here: http://www.apps.tv/ And others you run locally – the best is Galleon: http://galleon.sourceforge.net/html/index.html

I don’t know if there is site with a good current comparison, but there are older comparisons: http://www.pvrcompare.com/

TiVos are also easy to hack and upgrade if that’s your thing.

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