Thanks to Rami I currently use Tivo to record all my favorite shows on Showtime. But tonight I past by the Showtime stand at Marina Mall and noticed they now have something similar called Showbox. I tried to find out how close Showbox is to Tivo in features but the salesperson there didn’t know anything. The way she explained it to me was that with Showbox I can watch any show I want any time, meaning if I feel like watching King of Queens now I can just click on King of Queens and watch it live. I think thats bullshit and she really doesn’t know what she is talking about. I got the leaflet on the Showbox from her and I was able to understand a bit more. Basically what I understood is you can pause live TV which is something the Tivo can do of course. With Showbox you could also schedule what you want it to record for you 7 days in advance but say Seinfeld is playing everyday, you have to manually tell it to record each and every episode one by one. Now this is where Tivo kicks Showbox’s ass. With Tivo I can just say record every episode of Seinfeld with one command and it will record every episode of Seinfeld from now until I tell it not to which can be a month from now, a year from now.. whenever I want. I don’t have to manually set it to record each and every episode over and over. Anyway she also said Showbox would cost me KD135 and has an 80GB hard drive inside. Tivo cost me $70 and I have a 120GB drive inside. So far Showbox doesn’t interest me but it might for those of you who don’t have a Tivo. I scanned the leaflet and you can check it out below.
Leaflet
Front Page
Second & Third Page
Fourth Page
I think you can also find more information on showbox.showtimearabia.com but I wasn’t able to connect to it because I am on my slow GPRS connection now.
13 replies on “Showbox like Tivo?”
yes i saw the ad. while i was watching TMC … ” Soon Showtime will change the television experience for you” or something like that … i was like “OMG!! tivo is coming to kuwait” coz you know thats tivos ad. ..
Now thats awsome!! YaaY 😀
thanks walla for your blog/site .. its really a helpful site *bows* 😛 hehehe
2006 showtime reinvents television?
it sucks! my brother has it and the pause and play functions are horrible.. and looking for your recording takes some techinical background to find it! Cuz somehow they made it really difficult..
Tivo is the best and fuck the rest! (and yes it rhymes!)
Well I’d like to know more about how Tivo works in Kuwait, before i convince my parents to buy it. But Showbox’s dual-viewing is an awesome choice, would help everyone with one showtime subscription and with those crappy technosat receivers.
i have purchased Humax PVR 9100 from Hawally for 130 K.D. and it has all the features plus it’s hard disk is 80 GB.
it can record a show a watch another at the same time, but u can’t record them both at the same time, also u can rename ur recordings so the u know what is what from reading the label.
u need to have 2 wires coming from the Dish coz i need 2 input lines.
also what’s great about it, it’s HUMAX and u can’t go wrong with HUMAX the only thing it’s pricy but really worth it
EGPRS can go upto 234k why are you using normal GPRS. wataniya edge costs 10 kd per month. all you need is their PCMCIA card or a mobile with edge
Well Mark i would Like To get some more info on TiVo. Could u Help Around Like which site n How u bought it n whether it has dual-viewing?
bns the humax is a worse then the showbox because with the humax you don’t get the TV guide which is the most important thing.
Kuwaiti: I have MTC-Vodafone, would never change to Wataniya 🙂 Also this is just temporary until my DSL comes back online
Kevin: check out http://www.tivokuwait.com
yes i do get the guide but only if the channel has it, like channel 2 of mbc and others, for example KTV has no guide even with showbox
i guess
Nothing is like Tivo.
I am moving from the States to Kuwait soon and I was wondering if I should bring my TiVo with me…does it work there? Many thanks for your help!
hey tivokuwait.com does not work please help!
is it still working for you mark?