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#1 The Future
Hi. Great tool.
I am beginning to question the need for a Replay unit
at all.
Maybe you could aim ReplayPC toward taking over
ALL the FUNCTIONS of a Replay box, rather than
serving up video for them. This would allow us to
upgrade the drives in our units and sell them for a
handsome margin on EBay, and enjoy the benefits of
Replay on our PeeCee (TVEngine?).
I don't expect commercial-skip, but it might not be too
hard to hook it into an IR interface on the second
serial port, and maybe an IRblaster (for the cable/sat
box) on the third?
Just suggestions. Great work dude.
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I think you've missed out on why you bought a ReplayTV. The
box does real-time encoding of a video stream tuned from RF
or via analog video. This is not a software function, this is
done in some special purpose hardware. Nobody has proposed
taking this project into the custom hardware business, and I
think there are several patents we run into if we considered it.
If you want to make your $2K PC do what a $1K ReplayTV can
do you need to check out TV/Video => DV Firewire boxes. You
might look at http://www.formac.com/ (usual disclaimers apply).
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Personally I think you can already find these kinda features in
a high-end PC today.
take 1 big 2+ GHz CPU with RDRAM or DDR
1 SVGA video card with S-video output
1 TV-Card (live recording sotfware inculded in general..
TVEngine as u put it) or Sat-Card (for satellite reception)
1 BIG HD
1 DVD-burner if you are into recording
1 ethernet card (or Giga-ethernet or WIFI) for networking
plus the ir remote (provided by the TV-Card)
and voila a state of the art ReplayTV
but then it's a bit bulky. and pricy but if you got the money
and can stand having your noisy, ugly PC next to your 16/9
large screen TV please do.