leemoreau
09-18-2008, 09:32 AM
Hey everyone,
I'm just curious. I have my TiVo in the living room downstairs. I'd love to be able to watch the odd show from my bedroom on the 3rd floor that I've recorded. I don't want to buy another TiVo and pay $12.95 a month since it's rare I'll do it and I find that's a big pricy.
What I'm thinking of doing, is just getting a really cheap PC instead. On eBay, small form factor Dell's are like $60 for Pentium 3 1.3Ghz, 20GB hard drive and so on. I have extra drives laying around 80GB and what not so size isn't an issue. I'm thinking of just connecting this to my TV here and using TiVo desktop to download a show and watch it since it's not going to require some heavy processing, since it's all SD anyway.
What I'm curious though, is are there any Media Centre applications (ie MythTV, Windows Media Centre, etc) that actually talk to the TiVo? Meaning, instead of having to go up to the TV use a mouse download a show click it to play and so on. Just wondering if there's any plug ins or anything for any media centres anyone knows of, since I have a IR remote and keyboard already. It would be nice to be able to have some big on screen display I can use from bed that would just show all TiVo shows and play them without having to actually get up and use a mouse to navigate TiVo desktop? Thanks!
I'm just curious. I have my TiVo in the living room downstairs. I'd love to be able to watch the odd show from my bedroom on the 3rd floor that I've recorded. I don't want to buy another TiVo and pay $12.95 a month since it's rare I'll do it and I find that's a big pricy.
What I'm thinking of doing, is just getting a really cheap PC instead. On eBay, small form factor Dell's are like $60 for Pentium 3 1.3Ghz, 20GB hard drive and so on. I have extra drives laying around 80GB and what not so size isn't an issue. I'm thinking of just connecting this to my TV here and using TiVo desktop to download a show and watch it since it's not going to require some heavy processing, since it's all SD anyway.
What I'm curious though, is are there any Media Centre applications (ie MythTV, Windows Media Centre, etc) that actually talk to the TiVo? Meaning, instead of having to go up to the TV use a mouse download a show click it to play and so on. Just wondering if there's any plug ins or anything for any media centres anyone knows of, since I have a IR remote and keyboard already. It would be nice to be able to have some big on screen display I can use from bed that would just show all TiVo shows and play them without having to actually get up and use a mouse to navigate TiVo desktop? Thanks!