http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/07/amazon-unbox-and-tivo-provide-a-geek-his-bsg-fix/ TiVo, Slingbox, Android, Blu-ray Disc, and whatever other tech I feel like blogging about... Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/07/amazon-unbox-and-tivo-provide-a-geek-his-bsg-fix/comment-page-1/#comment-23546 Rob Maass Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:32:24 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2387#comment-23546 I actually recommended this to my sister. She has a Tivo Series 2,and wanted to reduce her cable bill. Her thought was to buy Apple TV or VUDO to get shows off the net. I told her, if she wants to do that, just use Amazon unbox and her Tivo. I dont' know which direction she went ultimately. But she sure liked the idea. I actually recommended this to my sister. She has a Tivo Series 2,and wanted to reduce her cable bill. Her thought was to buy Apple TV or VUDO to get shows off the net. I told her, if she wants to do that, just use Amazon unbox and her Tivo. I dont’ know which direction she went ultimately. But she sure liked the idea.

]]> http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/07/amazon-unbox-and-tivo-provide-a-geek-his-bsg-fix/comment-page-1/#comment-23456 Glenn Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:46:19 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2387#comment-23456 Can't comment on using it to avoid higher cable fees, but as a recent convert to BSG I watched the first two seasons via Unbox on Tivo and was perfectly happy. For the third season though I bought the DVD and ripped it, then dropped copies in the Tivo directory and let Tivo Desktop do the job. This was quite a bit more work on my part, ripping each of 5 DVDs, naming the episodes, copying large files around, but the resulting copies were certainly better looking than the Unbox versions, and 16:9 as well of course. For something like BSG I think this is important, though obviously you get the idea even without the pictures being quite so pretty. Actually, now that I'm used to watching it this way I find having to watch the current shows in 4:3 off my local Comcasts non-HD SciFi feed frustrating, especially with the commercials. From now on I'll catch up on the occasional show I missed off hulu or SciFi.com, using a flash ripper like Replay Media Catcher when the internet connection in the hotel room is a little slow... Can’t comment on using it to avoid higher cable fees, but as a recent convert to BSG I watched the first two seasons via Unbox on Tivo and was perfectly happy. For the third season though I bought the DVD and ripped it, then dropped copies in the Tivo directory and let Tivo Desktop do the job. This was quite a bit more work on my part, ripping each of 5 DVDs, naming the episodes, copying large files around, but the resulting copies were certainly better looking than the Unbox versions, and 16:9 as well of course. For something like BSG I think this is important, though obviously you get the idea even without the pictures being quite so pretty. Actually, now that I’m used to watching it this way I find having to watch the current shows in 4:3 off my local Comcasts non-HD SciFi feed frustrating, especially with the commercials. From now on I’ll catch up on the occasional show I missed off hulu or SciFi.com, using a flash ripper like Replay Media Catcher when the internet connection in the hotel room is a little slow…

]]> http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/07/amazon-unbox-and-tivo-provide-a-geek-his-bsg-fix/comment-page-1/#comment-23451 Stephen Mack Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:33:30 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2387#comment-23451 Happened to see this blog post along the same lines: http://makeyournut.com/?p=177 Happened to see this blog post along the same lines:
http://makeyournut.com/?p=177

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