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#127021 - 19/11/2002 05:48 Friend for your empeg
wvloon journeyman Registered: 13/08/2000 Posts: 82 Loc: Near Arnhem, Netherlands	Anyone here already ordered one of these babies ? _________________________ [email protected] ------------------------ Reg:1934/Mk1:158-Blue(sold)/Mk2:380-Amber(sold)/Mk2a:3273-Blue
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#127022 - 19/11/2002 09:49 Re: Friend for your empeg [Re: wvloon]
Daria carpal tunnel Registered: 24/01/2002 Posts: 3937 Loc: Providence, RI	Sounds a lot like the F@milyconnect box I'm told my friends in Sweden have been getting surplus of. I want a box that supports mpeg2 encoding. A shame there's no datasheets for the chipset in the TiVo.
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#127023 - 19/11/2002 12:28 Re: Friend for your empeg [Re: Daria]
number6 old hand Registered: 30/04/2001 Posts: 745 Loc: In The Village or sometimes: A...	In reply to: A shame there's no datasheets for the chipset in the TiVo There are, but you reportedly have to pay Sony in the order of $US5 million to get them. Thats probably why there are none available for free - I imagine the NDA requirements for something like this would be pretty onerous and the penalties for premature disclosure extremely high. There is rumoured to be some very serious processing power in ther MPEG 2 encoder in the Tivos and Tivo aren't even using a half of the capabilities of the Sony chipset inthe Tivos right now. What about the Encoders in the ReplayTV models? How good are they?
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#127024 - 19/11/2002 13:12 Re: Friend for your empeg [Re: number6]
Daria carpal tunnel Registered: 24/01/2002 Posts: 3937 Loc: Providence, RI	Needing to pay more than I will make in my life is effecvtively the same as "don't exist".
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