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How To Turn Your Computer into a Free Tivo

Written by The Tech Guy, Sunday April 23, 2006

Howdy. I want to tell you about a friend I have, the tech guy. No, that’s not him on the left there. Compared to my tech friend the fellow in the black and white photo is the most sauve mo’ fo you know.

All mockery aside my friend, the tech guy, will put you to shame. He can program your VCR, your Digital Cable, or your in-car GPS for that matter. One day I woke up and realized that it was my civic duty to share some of this knowledge. What I want to do is take some of this crazy tech mumbo-jumbo and throw it into usable chunks of information that my fellow Hill staffers and friends can make use of. I will warn you though, some of these entries are going to get a little detailed. No matter what, however, I promise that I’ll try to be as clear as possible.

Today’s fun cash saving chunk o’ tech knowledge is how to turn your computer into a free tivo. That’s right, you can automatically record almost any of your favorite TV shows, whenever you want, right when they come out. It’s not a 100% Tivo copy (it’ll only grab recent shows, not movies) but it can be really nice for watching your favorite episode of Lost, 24, or Prison Break. But enough talk, here we go.

The program I’m going to cover is called Democracy and is the self-proclaimed “free and open-source TV platform”. Go ahead and grab a downloaded copy to your computer now.

So what the heck is this Democracy program? All it is, is a souped up video playing application which can also download your shows for you through the use of Bittorrent technology. Got the program installed? Great.

• Now, head on over to the website TVRss and search for your favorite show.
• Next, when the search results come up, right click the link at the top that says “Search-based RSS Feed” and select “Copy Link”.
• Now, head over to the Feedburner website and past the link you just copied from TVRss into the big text field on the homepage. Go ahead and check the “I am a Podcaster!” box and click next. (Here you will be prompted to create an account, don’t worry it’s free. I know all those website accounts are a pain, but I promise this one will be worth it.)
• Now, click “Next” to activate your feed and copy the URL Feed burner spits out. (It will look like http://www.feedburner.com/)
• But wait, didn’t we download some Democracy program? Go ahead and fire up the Democracy player and click add channel. (Lower Left)
• Paste the link from Feedburner
• That’s it. Now go to work, get dinner, go to bed. Everytime that show plays it will be automatically downloaded to your computer for your viewing pleasure at your own convenience.

So now you have no excuse not to get caught up on all of those shows you’ve been missing. I’ll leave the reviews to TV Steve.