[vdr] Re: TitanTV

[Stelios Valavanis <stel@onshore.com>]

you were a big help.

On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:33 am, Christian Berger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2002 18:01 schrieben Sie:
> > i don't know if any f you know of titantv but they offer a free tivo-like
> > service in the US but it seems that only windoze software accesses it so
> > far. i definitely want to replace my tivo (or at least my service) with a
> > free service. i must say i do love the tivo interface and features.
>
> This is no problem, get a Linux PC, a DVB-S card about 10000km of cable and
> a satellite dish. ;) Well really, you can use VDR with a DVB-S card, if you
> have unscrambled transmissions in DVB. I don't know if there are any in the
> US. If you want to stay with the higher quality of analog video, you might
> be interrested in this:
> http://casandro.dyndns.org/tim/optacord/optacord.jpg
> This is a special device recently (1961) introduced by Loewe, to enable
> consumers to record TV-shows themselves. Unlike previous machines this one
> is really easy to use. You just threadt the tape and press record or play.
> It can even just hold the image still and stuff. There are newer devices,
> but I don't want to shock you with color :) Oh well I'll just do:
> http://v2000.palsite.info/v2080ovi.html
> This machine has a numeric keypad where you just enter the start as well as
> the end-time of the show you want to record. Every recording will have a
> "timestamp" on tape. For example, if you just recorded a 2 hour recording
> and your second recording follows afterwards, you just pressed 2 0 0
> Ziellauf, and nomatter what position the tape is in you imediately go to
> the recording. You can record 16 hours on a single tape (but you'll have to
> turn it over after 8 hours.
>
> So don't be sad, if you can't find any unscrambled digital services.
>
> Servus
>   Casandro

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