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I decided to start with Windows Media Center and then perhaps switch to BeyondTV if I wasn’t crazy about MCE. So I decided to jump in to build a full-scale HTPC.
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I was able to get content from my PC to my HT using the Gateway Connected DVD player but it just wasn’t that friendly.
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I used BTV a little bit but it never seemed as good as the TiVo. But that was not really what I wanted – I wanted a PC that you attached to a big screen TV and audio receiver. From what I was lead to understand, MCE was marketed as a way to use your PC to also play music and watch TV – a single solution for a dorm room. I had heard that SageTV was not as good as BTV and that it had an ugly UI. The other solutions available at the time were SageTV and MCE.
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A trial version came with my TV tuner and I kind of liked the software. I bought a TV tuner card for my PC and decided to try out BeyondTV (BTV). Others must have agreed as this product was discontinued within a few months. I used it occasionally but I found it hard to get my wife to use it. While this was a decent first effort it left a lot to be desired and the UI was not the most user friendly. This was a DVD player that could also connect to your LAN to play music, videos or photos. I also wanted more functionality than the TiVo could provide so I decided to go with a HTPC.īut first let me digress - my first effort at trying to get digital content to my Home Theatre setup (I am a Canadian so excuse the spelling of Theatre) was to buy a Gateway ADC-220 Connected DVD player. But the problem was that HD was becoming more prevalent and I wanted a TiVo-type PVR solution that could also record HD as I bought my first HDTV around the time that I got my first TiVo – in March of 2002. This was a pretty good solution and I bought a second Series 1 TiVo, and applied several other TiVo hacks. This process to load guide data into the TiVo required downloading guide data, reformatting it, uploading to the TiVo and then running a process on the TiVo to load the guide data. A TiVo, like many consumer electronics products, runs a version of Linux. So in early 2002 I bought a used Series 1 TiVo on eBay, plus a special network card for my TiVo, and hacked it so that I could download data to the guide. This required using XMLTV to download guide data for your provider, in my case Rogers Cable, and reformat it so that TiVo could read the data. But I then learned that some smart Canadians had figured out that you could “roll your own” guide data for TiVo. I would send TiVo an email every six months asking when they were coming to Canada but they kept replying that they had no plans to do so. Once I heard about TiVo I realized I wanted one, but there was one problem - I live in Toronto, Canada and TiVo did not support Canadians – it didn’t supply the guide data that is the heart of a TiVo. I am a long-time Technology gadget geek – here is my current HTPC setup and some of my history in this area: Basic guidelines for writing and submitting a guest post at GeekTonic can be found here.
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To read more about how to submit your photos and/or write-ups for the GeekTonic Media Gadget Showcase Series, read this. Read on for his great write-up with photos to share. The fifth submission for the GeekTonic Media Gadget Showcase Series is a Home Theater PC setup by "wayner", a frequent commenter on GeekTonic.