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[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Since you all know that I have a ReplayTV and use mReplay or DVArchive to grab shows for mobile viewing on my Powerbook, I thought I'd turn the question around to you: What PVR do you have and what do you use to grab shows off of it? Do you use something in particular to grab shows off of your TiVo box, or perhaps enjoy HDTV conversion to the Mac over Firewire with your Comcast PVR? Do you use a Mac mini in combination with an El Gato EyeTV?
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[a little ludwig goes a long way] mac mini as htpc: s (via bittorrent) off my windows file server -- the mac connected pretty easily to windows, in some ways it is easier than connecting two xp machines. Per this guide, i installed vlc to play the downloaded avis -- works great. (Wow I had forgotten how easy it is to install apps on the mac).
[Pretty Pink Ponies Edition] Where I have been lately: Well anyway that is just what I can think of off the top of my head at the moment. The rub here for me is how to go about writing it. I am leaning towards it being a monolithic web app written in PHP with some Flash thrown in. The only language that I am skilled in that is cross platform is PHP. If I try to make this an actual application then I would be locking out anyone not on a mac since the only language I am skilled with in that arena is Cocoa (objective C).
[Michael Hagel] iHome: Currently while watching TV I set my iBook on the coffee table in front of me so I can IM with friends, check email, even help someone out with a Flash or XHTML / CSS problem. So what I need out of an "iHome" device is not just the ability to pause and record live TV, look at my iPhoto collection, or listen to music in iTunes; but the ability to minimize my TV from full screen to a small window and work on my Mac without ever leaving the couch. Yes, this can be done today without the Mac Mini, but unless I was to get a new PowerMac to work on and turned my old one into an "iHome" then this was an idea that was way to expensive to bring to life; unless I sat and watched TV in my office, or moved my office to my living room - neither of which I want to do. But now for $650 (low end Mini + TV Tuner hardware), true more then a TiVo but around the price if not less then an average Windows Media Center, I can finally have my "iHome" just the way I want it.
[Pvrblog.com] Newsweek: Netflix and TiVo to announce partnership, offer ...: Sometimes Random Blogging pays off with something I really care about. paidContent.org's ContentNext Series: TivoFlixing The Video Industry I had to stop and think about this posting for a second. Tivo and Netflix partnering up to allow Netflix movies .
[Andrewsavory.com] Bagel Belly Blog: Mac Mini: It is a shame that Apple didn't provide some kind of built in USB KVM with the new Mac-mini given that they are trying to pitch it as a way to upgrade to Mac from XP (or whatever) as I doubt most people would want to drop in the Mac and ditch the PC straight away it would be nice to have a way to share that keyboard+mouse+screen. Also what Andrew said about us being screwed on the price is right, the Mac-mini is about 40 quid too much and a couple of other things put me off, the built in ethernet isn't gigabit (yeah I don't have a gig-e switch yet but they are getting cheaper) and also isn't there a new release of Mac OS X just around the corner? I would be really pissed to buy one of these to have Apple release Tiger in the next couple of months and want to charge me 100 quid to upgrade to it. I really do want one of these though, just to play with just a shame that it will cost me more than 400 quid.
[Andrewsavory.com] Bagel Belly Blog: Comment on Mac Mini: It is a shame that Apple didn't provide some kind of built in USB KVM with the new Mac-mini given that they are trying to pitch it as a way to upgrade to Mac from XP (or whatever) as I doubt most people would want to drop in the Mac and ditch the PC straight away it would be nice to have a way to share that keyboard+mouse+screen. Also what Andrew said about us being screwed on the price is right, the Mac-mini is about 40 quid too much and a couple of other things put me off, the built in ethernet isn't gigabit (yeah I don't have a gig-e switch yet but they are getting cheaper) and also isn't there a new release of Mac OS X just around the corner? I would be really pissed to buy one of these to have Apple release Tiger in the next couple of months and want to charge me 100 quid to upgrade to it. I really do want one of these though, just to play with just a shame that it will cost me more than 400 quid.
[Engadget.com] The M9 Mac mini module - Engadget - www.engadget.com.: can hook up to some hardware manufacturer (belkin, griffin, el gato, anyone? to combine things like an amplifier, tv/fm tuner / satellite (hd)tv receiver, big hard drive for PVR, mac styled remote (ati aiw functionality?)plenty of firewire and usb2 connections, rca connections for auxiliary input and last but not least, an ipod dock on top of the thing, this should all be stackable like these latest add ons, and offcourse dockable like a laptop docking station, the connection to the mac mini can then be made by a single firewire and usb cable.
[Pvr.blogs.com] SnapStream Personal Video Station 3.0 review | PVRblog: Of course, my biggest problem was figuring out how to watch TV on my desktop PC for extended periods of time, but this problem is shared with any PVR software that runs on a PC. Normal PC operation puts me about 2 feet from my monitor, while normal TV watching puts a screen over 10 feet away, so when watching hour-long programs, I would usually run the show full-screen and roll back in my office to a comfortable distance to watch.
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Posted at May 28, 2005 11:33 AM
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