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SonicBlue Going w/ReplayTV 4000 Despite Lawsuit
Ughhgu writes "Looks like SonicBlue is going to go ahead and start shipping. The Cnet article even has a quote from SonicBlue. It seems they can't understand why the industry would sue them. Sign me up for one!" I'd dearly love to test one of these.
Sonicblue's DVRs range from $700 to $2,000, depending on the size of the hard drive, which can hold 40 hours to 320 hours of programming.
Ya... exactly which hard drive costs over $1,000?
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
Click on the link.. Then type "www.replaytv.com or "www.sonicblue.com" into your browser, and find out.
Moderators, this is not Flamebait, it's common (freaking) sense.
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I'm not going to get into the whole vinyl vs cd arguement, but suffice it to say that digital is NOT higher quality by definition - it is in the case of VCR's of course, but I'm sure an analog video system could be made better than a DVD, and a digital system could be made better than that too. The two are on equal terms when ti comes to quality, save for the longevity of digital.
In fact, you'd think the industry would be happier with formats that only lasted a few years as opposed to DVDs which might last 20 years or more.
By ease of use I meant the easy ability to modify, copy, and otherwise deal with digital information as opposed to analog.
Congratulations, you now have a 50" widescreen TV with a 19" 4:3 picture. For a couple grand, plus the cost of your converter.
It'd be cheaper to just tape a couple of pieces of paper over the screen.
Excuse me, I think my screen must have gone blurry or something. Did you just say "DivX AVI's" and "perfect digital quality" in the same context?
Look up the term "lossy compression" some time. (:
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> No you won't.
Umm... Yes I will. I thought I was pretty clear.
> Like most people, you're trying to throw the virtual weight of your 'maybe dollars' around to influence people.
Umm... No I'm not. I'm not trying to influence anybody. I'm stating what product I will buy if it ever becomes available. Wow, you're really not good at this mind reading thing, are you?
> Identify a company that is going in a direction you like and purchase their products.
I think a personal-use orbital-capable vehicle would be really neat. Do I have to buy a Space Shuttle now? It's not what I want, but it's going in a direction I like.
> When the first thoughts of networking computers was realized, the US Government did not say 'well... I'll fund this only if it does super reallistic streaming video.' They decided that they liked the potential that a non-centralized communication system had, so they put their money into developing something that originally could barely send plain text. Look where we are now?
Yeah, they paid for and got exactly the product they wanted. A network that was non-centralized and could be routed around nuclear destruction. Many years later the new technology in it evolved into something even better than what they paid for. I'll buy a PVR that uses network drives and many years later maybe it's descendents will do holograms.
> Bottom line, spend money, don't make vague demands.
Vague? How much more specific can I be? Record and play video on an SMB or NFS mounted disk. Do you want specs for SMB and NFS?
Do you always tell people what to do?
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