Comments on: Seven Ready To Roll Out 500GB eSATA Drive And Expand Retail Presence http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/09/30/seven-ready-to-roll-out-500gb-esata-drive-and-expand-retail-presence/ 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 By: Matthttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/09/30/seven-ready-to-roll-out-500gb-esata-drive-and-expand-retail-presence/comment-page-1/#comment-25579 Matt Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:02:37 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=3213#comment-25579 Two things:1) Smarthouse is a well-known plagiarist with pretty much no journalistic standards. Ignore them, they don't originate anything anyway;2) The people who really got in to DVB-T PVRs here prior to TiVo entering the market are, for the most part, extremely hostile to TiVo. Knowing the way IT magazines/etc operate they'll have farmed the reviews out to people with an existing interest in the area. These are the people with MythTV or WMC boxes with terabytes of storage, hence "crippled" and "pathetic".I'm one of that small group of pre-TiVo PVR users who've done both homebrew and commercial PVRs who, despite some small misgivings, thinks that TiVo is simply the best experience in the field right now. Most of the enthusiasts do not agree, but then they've also not tried it.A lot of the talk pre-launch indicated that the Australian TiVo was going to be heavily crippled by Seven. Turned out to be rubbish. I would expect that the expander disk will be the same story. Two things:

1) Smarthouse is a well-known plagiarist with pretty much no journalistic standards. Ignore them, they don’t originate anything anyway;

2) The people who really got in to DVB-T PVRs here prior to TiVo entering the market are, for the most part, extremely hostile to TiVo. Knowing the way IT magazines/etc operate they’ll have farmed the reviews out to people with an existing interest in the area. These are the people with MythTV or WMC boxes with terabytes of storage, hence “crippled” and “pathetic”.

I’m one of that small group of pre-TiVo PVR users who’ve done both homebrew and commercial PVRs who, despite some small misgivings, thinks that TiVo is simply the best experience in the field right now. Most of the enthusiasts do not agree, but then they’ve also not tried it.

A lot of the talk pre-launch indicated that the Australian TiVo was going to be heavily crippled by Seven. Turned out to be rubbish. I would expect that the expander disk will be the same story.

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