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September 30th, 2008 - 5:20 am
Now this looks cool:
LiquidTV is a two-part product: the TiVo PC software that runs the show and a WinTV-HVR-950Q TV tuner card from Hauppauge. This package sells for $199—which includes a one-year TiVo subscription—but you can also purchase the TiVo software by itself for $99 if you own a compatible TV tuner card. Along with the included tuner card, Nero provides a branded TiVo remote, IR transceiver, portable digital TV antenna, and an RCA input cable for the card.
If they don’t eventually come out with a Mac version, I might have to build myself a bargain-basement PC, load it up with hard drives, and network all our shows throughout the house.
Youve got a Mac, so Parallels is your virtualization stack of choice. Use that to run windows on you Mac ( not dual boot – but side by side, youre not getting rid of OSX, youre just adding another program to your desktop. In essence, under parallels, your new windows “Virtual Machine” is just a program for you to run) and the use an existing Hauppage USB TV card and youre all set.
If you do go for a standalone box, I recommend adding a slingbox to the setup. DVR’s help you gather in all the shows into one convienent place, while a slingbox attached to the same device lets you watch it from anywhere( and anything, your laptop, your cellphone, overseas or at home). The combination is pretty fantastic.
(Of course you do realize that a Tivo is just a purpose built linux box, right?)