PVRs Down Under? 22
mgkimsal2 asks: "My in-laws are leaving tomorrow for Australia and they've become quite fond of our Tivo. They asked if there was any way to get Tivo in Australia, but I'm turning up a blank. It seems that some people are hacking it to work over there, but it's not commercially available. Are there other PVRs commercially available in Australia? Similarly, are there any cool PVR products in other countries we've not seen in the US yet?"
Holland (Score:1)
What about PC cards? (Score:1)
Anyone got any idea if I can hack a Tivo to work okay in Canada?
-psyco
the far east? (Score:2, Informative)
Problem is you probably won't turn up much online since the web pages and such will be in local languages.
I'd like to hear what information anybody has who's been living in those parts for a while.
UK PVR (Score:2, Informative)
Re:don't bother coming (Score:1, Troll)
Re:don't bother coming (Score:2)
Re:don't bother coming (Score:2)
TV Schedules? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:TV Schedules? (Score:3, Interesting)
uh huh (Score:2)
is this what some saleman told you ?
regards
John Jones
Re:uh huh (Score:2)
The UK (PAL I) uses a 6MHz offset for audio, the continental European countries using PAL (B/G/H) are at 5,5MHz. I suppose it might be possible to modify the tuner though.
S.American PAL is different again (Uruguay/Paraguay/Argentina has one standard, Brasil has another for 60Hz). Where it's used in Asia it's often with European frequencies/offsets.
It's fairly similar to the US NTSC, except the phase changes each line, which means the colours don't fsck up so badly.
A few pointers here [telsat.com] and here [216.239.39.100].
PVRs are not widespread... (Score:3, Informative)
The annoying part is that all it would take to make a TiVo fully functional up here are the show listings. We use the exact same TV standards as the US. We even get some of the same channels. Yet after all these years, there still isn't TiVo or Replay support for Canada.
Buh.
tridge is australian (Score:1)
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/linux.conf.au_200
(Result 2 of about 7,610. Search took 0.05 seconds.)
andy
Re:tridge is australian (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:tridge is australian (Score:1)
but given that he hacked it from ntsc to pal then i'm guessing it was an american one.
> My inlaws (in their 70's) aren't going to be hacking an imported tivo.
why not? 8)
ask on the tivo forums, someone there will be capable and willing i don't doubt.
andy
Japan has a sort-of tivo (Score:3, Informative)
Twostep
Use your PC (Score:2)
Tridge rocks. (Score:1)
It's all referenced here: http://marc.merlins.org/linux/linux.conf.au_2001/D ay4/InsideTivo.html [merlins.org]
It's also all pretty hairy stuff. Decendants of Tridge and co. have since released a 100MB card that plugs *directly* into the TiVo. It's pretty sweet, and doesn't require an EE degree to build.
However your in-laws would still have the problem of the PAL tuner and the guide data.
Tridge has a palkit that is supposed to help you replace the tuner.
http://tivo.samba.org/download/tridge/ [samba.org]
(Lots of other goodies there too.)
But as for the guide data -- maybe you could beg him? Or have your in-laws deliver a pizza? (Old Samba joke.)
Tridge and Tivo (Score:2, Informative)
Aussie instructions are here... (Score:1)