A New Addition to the Home Theatre

Posted by shughes Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:08:00 GMT

Best Buy and DirecTV are running a promotion now where you can pick up an 80hr TiVo for $100 and get a $100 mail-in rebate… Making the TiVo essentially free. Of course, “free” doesn’t include the cost of replacing my Dual-LNB dish with a Triple-LNB and running two more cables (total 4) through a hole that barely fits one! Nicole and I had a lot of fun trying to pull those extra cables through. In hindsight, although it would’ve been a lot more expensive, the multi-switch would’ve been a simpler route.

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TivoTool for Mac OSX

Posted by shughes Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:33:00 GMT

In my previous post (TiVo and Mac OSX: Remux Redux), I discussed a GUI and command-line option for re-muxing video from a TiVo on OSX. Well, the command-line option was based on a perl script called TivoTool. The developer of that perl script has gone on to create a very slick GUI around it.

I got an email from the developer a few weeks ago about the new GUI, and I’ve been meaning to write about it, but I had a few problems with earlier revisions. For example, I couldn’t get it to save my video on an external volume… The new file would simply disappear. That said, I’m very excited to see that the tool is being very actively developed, with a new release today that adds some slick features.

I have to say that with this tool, I no longer regret leaving behind the win32-only TyTool.

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