{"id":7029,"date":"2005-02-23T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/tivo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:01","slug":"tivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/tivo\/","title":{"rendered":"TiVo&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m thinking of getting a TiVo. Here&#8217;s why&#8230; Costco has 80GB (80 hour) TiVos for $269, with a $100 mail-in rebate. The monthly charge is $12.95. I&#8217;ve been thinking of resubscribing to Netflix, but that&#8217;s $20\/mo, and I mostly tend to want content to watch while eating dinner or whatnot. This means :30 tv shows or so. Netflix has a harder time providing this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought about building a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythtv.org\">MythTV<\/a> box, but with the cost of a large hard drive, memory, quiet case, and a MPEG2 video capture board, I&#8217;m looking at around $400 to get things going this route, plus my time. At this rate the break-even point would be 17 months&#8230; Granted, MythTV would allow me to do more with the captured files, but if I want a captured show, I&#8217;ll be doing it in DV, not MPEG2, and thusly using the capture device on my Mac. So, that&#8217;s kinda out the window&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, does anyone who reads this have a Series 2 TiVo and actually use it? The price isn&#8217;t too bad, and I think it&#8217;d be pretty handy&#8230; Costco&#8217;s price is also a lot cheaper than buying it from Best Buy or Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>One other neat thing&#8230; Hopefully Tivo will get around to releasing a new Mac version of TiVo Desktop fairly soon, which will allow me to watch recorded shows on my Mac. Right now it&#8217;d be PC-only. Poo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m thinking of getting a TiVo. Here&#8217;s why&#8230; Costco has 80GB (80 hour) TiVos for $269, with a $100 mail-in rebate. The monthly charge is $12.95. I&#8217;ve been thinking of resubscribing to Netflix, but that&#8217;s $20\/mo, and I mostly tend to want content to watch while eating dinner or whatnot. This means :30 tv\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14600,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions\/14600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}