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MCE vs Tivo

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Paul has a great write up on MCE and Tivo. I ditched my Tivo 2 years ago for my custom built MCE box. In that time period I've been dogfooding (running alpha and beta builds)various versions of Media Center about 75% of that time. 1.0 had a lot of little gotchas and issues, especially if you built one yourself. My machine runs 24/7 and has rarely missed recordings and only crashed once in 2 years.

Today the product is a lot more stable and the team is doing some amazing work right now (can't talk about it yet). Needless to day, MCE gets better and better every day (literally).

If you want something that doesn't just record TV (for me the Music, Photo, Video, Napster and Newsgator 10 foot experiences are just superb). And mine passed WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) with flying colors.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2004
    The day MCE has dual DirectTV tuners in it will be the day I ditch my DirectTivo. But until then, I'm staying with my Tivo.
  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2004
    I agree with Aaron. I would be all over MCE if it had DirectTV intergrated. I should not be hard for a vendor to do it because there are lots of differant brands of DirectTV boxes.
  • Anonymous
    August 10, 2004
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