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March 03, 2004
What to do about DVR/Home media server?
TiVo-like devices to get booster shot | CNET News.com. This article talks about a 3 streem record, 3 stream playback device being delivered by Scientific Atlanta this summer! I love my TIVO, but the only being able to record one show at a time and play back on one machine has always been a problem. So here come multistream devices. One and a half years before I have to buy something! I am totally stuck as to what to buy in two years. This choice also has implications on wiring. Let's assume you can pump in all your outside media services (cable, satellite, etc.) into one box. This box can tune to multiple channels simultaneously. Would the outside guys allow this? (currently they charge extra per box per room) If all these sources go into one box, how do you get what you want to watch from that box to the display devices? Is this ethernet? Or does this box feed a co-ax distributor? What capacity do you want for this box to support? Certainly I want at least three different video streams, a mix of live and recorded (one for me, alex and finn). Then probably two or three audio streams that can play simultaneously. Then there is data traffic for the internet connection. Multi-tasking is a reality.
It will be interesting to see how this goes.
Posted by Martin at March 3, 2004 01:03 PM
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