Hi, all!

I am an NTL digital cable subscriber and I also use my digibox as a
modem for broadband. What are my options in terms of getting a pvr,
preferably one without a subscription (so not TiVo and of course not sky+)?

Thanks

Tobias Muhlhofer wrote:
Hi, all!

I am an NTL digital cable subscriber and I also use my digibox as a
modem for broadband. What are my options in terms of getting a pvr,
preferably one without a subscription (so not TiVo and of course not sky+)?

Thanks

Why not Tivo ? it's the best there is. Ok you will have to buy one
from Ebay or www.tivoland.com but if you buy the lifetime sub for £199
that's it your done. So in total the pvr will cost you approx £450 but
well worth the money. I've had my life subbed box for over 2 years now
so technically I'm in profit vs the pay monthly sub model.

The service you pay yours subs for is the EPG, without an EPG a pvr is
nothing more than a manual video recorded without video plus. The EPG
makes all the difference!

Tobias Muhlhofer wrote:
Hi, all!

I am an NTL digital cable subscriber and I also use my digibox as a
modem for broadband. What are my options in terms of getting a pvr,
preferably one without a subscription (so not TiVo and of course not
sky+)?

Thanks

There you have a choice of exactly, erm, NONE. Tivo is they way to go.

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:42:55 GMT, "Carl Waring" wrote:

Tobias Muhlhofer wrote:
Hi, all!

I am an NTL digital cable subscriber and I also use my digibox as a
modem for broadband. What are my options in terms of getting a pvr,
preferably one without a subscription (so not TiVo and of course not
sky+)?

Thanks

There you have a choice of exactly, erm, NONE. Tivo is they way to go.
..
...there's always Windows XP MCE2004....

There is a hard-disc recorder coming out around about April that will feature the Guide Plus+ system
as used on the Philips DVDR80. I don't have any more info than that, but this came directly from the
GuidePlus people.

GuidePlus+ gets its data over teletext and is subscription-free.

Mike Harrison wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:42:55 GMT, "Carl Waring" wrote:


Tobias Muhlhofer wrote:

Hi, all!

I am an NTL digital cable subscriber and I also use my digibox as a
modem for broadband. What are my options in terms of getting a pvr,
preferably one without a subscription (so not TiVo and of course not
sky+)?

Thanks

There you have a choice of exactly, erm, NONE. Tivo is they way to go.

.
..there's always Windows XP MCE2004....

There is a hard-disc recorder coming out around about April that will feature the Guide Plus+ system
as used on the Philips DVDR80. I don't have any more info than that, but this came directly from the
GuidePlus people.

GuidePlus+ gets its data over teletext and is subscription-free.


Hmmm...

Maybe I'll have to wait for that. If it can decode digital cable that
might be worth waiting for.

I just see it from my brother in Austria: he has an ASTRA dish (ASTRA,
btw, is sub-free) and a dvr that updates its program from the
satellite's digitally encoded program guide. Now, my cable has a
digitally encoded program guide, but from what I'm hearing nobody has as
yet built a dvr that can decode it, together with the picture signal, right?

Damn

TM

"Tobias Muhlhofer" wrote in message
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Hi, all!

I am an NTL digital cable subscriber and I also use my digibox as a
modem for broadband. What are my options in terms of getting a pvr,
preferably one without a subscription (so not TiVo and of course not
sky+)?

Thanks

You may want to look at some of these PC alternatives.
http://myhtpc.net/
http://gbpvr.com/

If you have/get a PVR card in your PC, then this may be worth looking into.

Both of these apps are free and both offer free EPG info that is downloaded
to your PC.

I use MyHTPC with Sky/terrestrial but there are some mentions in the forums
about people using it with NTL.

I have only just started using GB-PVR and am very impressed with this too.
In conjunction with my Hauppauge PVR-350 the software allows me to not only
record TV using the free EPG but also display my desktop on the TV without
switching to my graphic cards output.