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Damonh

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Jun 27, 2009
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Greetings.
First I am noon with Mac but have always loved them... Just never could afford them.

I want to dump my TiVo system since it is very limited in a lot of areas. Mostly in saving to network and retrieving for playback.

I've had a PC as a PVR but wanted to switch to MAC MINI.

So far all I have been able to find out is that it looks like elgato is the way to go, but cannot find out if it will support the IR Blaster as I have a settop box.

Basically here is what I want to do.
1- Be able to watch one channel and record another. So Dual Tuner is a must.
I can accomplish all that just fine on my MS box with the two hauppauge cards and an IR Blaster.

2- Be able to save shows to my file server and stream them back at a later time.

3- Be able to stream a remote tv in another room.

Ideally it would be nice to have a box with 4 tuners as a PVR server and two client machines. Each client would be able to switch channels as needed.

I currently can do this with SageTV on my pc. Can I accomplish this with MAC Mini's.

Looking forward all the answers you can give me.

Cheers
 
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