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HDTV TiVo vs. Media Center PC

Hughes HR10-250

Thomas Hawk pits his new Hughes HR10-250 high-definition TiVo (which is available for use with DirecTV) against a PC running on Microsoft's Media Center operating system (specifically HP's 873N), and while it's not exactly fair to compare the two, since Media Center doesn't support HDTV recording (at least not yet, it's coming soon), but not surprisingly he describes watching recorded HDTV on the TiVo as practically a religious experience. The Media Center PC still comes out tops in terms of portability, since it makes it incredibly easy to archive shows to DVD or save them to a laptop or other PC.

[Via PVRblog]