Thursday, August 19, 2004
HD Tivo vs. Microsoft's Media Center Edition Review
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 05:00 AM
"[In 1999] I was doing my typical surfing through the channels on DirecTV, frustrated, when I came across an interesting infomercial. It was by Phillips and it was for this new thing called Tivo ... It was weird. Pausing live tv. Recording tv. It looked really really cool. Then while internet surfing one night I read about this upcoming thing called Media Center Edition in early 2002… and once again got really, really excited."
Thomas Hawk has a long review on how he got started with both TiVo and Windows XP Media Center Edition and even though he used TiVo for a long time, he switched to WinXP MCE when it was released a couple of years ago. It was only recently that he moved to a Hughes HR10-250, which as most of you know, is the DirecTV HD DVR. He compares and contrasts all the little differences between what you can do with an MCE box vs. what you can do with an HD TiVo box. It is a nice comparative look between the two products.
Thomas Hawk has a long review on how he got started with both TiVo and Windows XP Media Center Edition and even though he used TiVo for a long time, he switched to WinXP MCE when it was released a couple of years ago. It was only recently that he moved to a Hughes HR10-250, which as most of you know, is the DirecTV HD DVR. He compares and contrasts all the little differences between what you can do with an MCE box vs. what you can do with an HD TiVo box. It is a nice comparative look between the two products.
