Hello,
Buy the cheapest, lowest capacity Tivo you can.
Upgrade it with Maxtor 5400 rpm hard drives. The 7200 RPMs run too hot.
I have upgraded mine to 160 Hours using a 80 gig and a 40 gig.
Tivo has been REALLY good about people upgrading things.
Their stance is that they don't care how you modify the Tivo or the linux
OS underneath as long as you don't mess with the subscription parts. And
everyone in the Tivo community agrees with that stance.
And the really unusual thing about the Tivo is that the less TV you watch,
the better the Tivo is.
David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SlashDevNull <SlashDevNull_at_mac.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:17:35 -0400
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Any update on that device?
>
>>
>>> iPod appears to me to be (and iTunes is) designed for mere mortals,
>>> unlike most PC's and most MP3 players I've seen. Not to mention
>> most
>>> VCRs (which are getting better, but my Mom still has me come over
>> to
>>> program her VCR for her)
>>
>> VCR? Get her a Tivo. Well worth the money.
>
> Good point, I just saw one of those for the first time myself a few
> weeks ago. Nifty. (I know they've been around a while, but it seems to
> me that only now is the capacity and price actually coming into a
> useful range.)
>
> She's not much into electronics and computers and gadgets though, so
> it'd probably be a hard sell. She was happy with an old Mac IIci made
> in 1987 although I'm now letting her use a spare PowerBook G3 I
> recently picked up cheap as a backup for mine (I'm waiting on Apple to
> either put the bay drives back in the TiBook, make an expansion chassi
> or put a CD/DVD/DVD-R/CD-RW unit in the TiBook before I upgrade
> again). But I'd probably get her a Dish Network PVR (a similar product
> to the Tivo that uses the program guide that comes from the dish,
> without the monthly rather large fee that Tivo charges.)
>
> - Bill
>
>
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