Posts Tagged ‘TiVo’
DVR by the numbers: How much does owning a DVR really cost?
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Gadgets, Misc.
during the process of sorting-out if I’m going to keep TiVo or ditch it for Moxi, or even a Vista CableCard Home Theater PC, I ran some numbers and came to some interesting conclusions. I compared the overall cost of ownership of different digital cable-ready HD DVRs, including a TiVo HD with and without expanded storage and 3rd party upgrades, the TiVo XL HD, the newly launched Moxi DVR with and without expanded storage, the average cost of CableCard equipped HTPCs, and a service provider rental DVR. The total cost of ownership was figured at 1, 2, 3 and 5 years, with both prepaid and monthly service plans calculated. I also took a look at multi-room DVR solutions.
All a-twitter
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Misc.
So, as much as I loathe the idea of twitter, I think my lack of updates since Christmas sort of speak for themselves. Randomragenet is now online at twitter and twittling away. Is that what it’s called? Twittling?
Jumpin’ Freejack Flash
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Movies
I TiVo’ed 1992′s Freejack off of HDNet Movies recently (Best. Channel. Ever.), and finally got around to watching it for the first time since I was thirteen. The movie has not aged well, although there are some pretty interesting sci-fi concepts buried underneath early 90′s action cheese and an incredibly convoluted script. Emilio Estevez is [...]