[Sussex] April's Moot

[Mark Harrison]

Tony,

It was a pleasure to give the talk to such a good audience. Talking to
people technical and interested enough to join a LUG guarantees a crowd who,
while they may not want to do quite what I'm doing, do at least understand
the concept of fascination with a particular technology area.

If any of you have contacts with other (not too far away) LUGs, and you
think they'd be interested, let me know, and me or one of the guys can do
something similar for them.

TiVo is no longer marketed in the UK, thought second-hand ones come up from
time to time, normally on eBay.

Alternatively, projects like MythTV give much of the functionality, albeit
requiring a PC (which is likely to be more expensive than buying a TiVo...
unless you already have one with sufficient spec and disk capacity.)

M.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Austin" <tony at gigaday.com>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:33 PM
Subject: [Sussex] April's Moot


> I would like to add my thanks to the others to Mark for his presentation
> last night.  I have not the slightest intention of automating my home, but
> I could see some of it being useful for small businesses.  Most
> interesting for me was some insight into how an Open project is being
> developed - the players, the tactics, the goals, etc.
>
> BTW.  Mark, did you say that TiVo is no longer available?  I have been
> toying with the idea of building something similar with a PC and one or
> more digital TV cards - I think there was an article in LinuxFormat on
> this recently.
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Tony Austin
> Gigaday Computing Limited
> http://www.gigaday.com
> tony at gigaday.com
>
>
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