Question:
how do you get a free tivo on your computer?
2006-03-30 14:51:31 UTC
how do you get a free tivo on your computer?
Three answers:
Peter Kevin Reeves
2006-03-30 15:43:17 UTC
It depends on if you mean "TiVo", or something "TiVo-like". TiVo is not available on your computer, but several products like it are.



If you have a PC, there is software that will give it the ability to act like a TiVo, and record television programs. However, that PC will need a television tuner card in it.



Assuming you do have a television tuner card, there are two solutions that immediately come to mind. First is Microsoft Windows Media Center. It's a version of Microsoft Windows XP with all the TiVo functionality. However, you can only get it with the purchase of new hardware (Like a TV tuner card or a new PC)



The other solution is MythTV. MythTV is an open source PVR (Personal Video Recorder) project, which you can get at http://www.mythtv.org/



It works with many tuner cards, and assuming you have a decent hard disk, provides a lot of TiVo like funcationality, including recording your favorite shows.
Teh Sonix
2006-03-31 22:35:36 UTC
You can't, but you can get a windows media center edition P.C. You can record your shows on that.
chapelleseducatedguesser
2006-03-30 22:59:54 UTC
u cant its all bull


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