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Tivo Quadcard Promises Thousand-Hour PVR
edrock200 writes "The folks over at 9thtee are developing a quad card for Tivo series 1 and Tivo/DirecTV combo units...it will allow you to
add 4 hard drives to your Tivo and also break the 133gb limit for each drive....this will effectively give you a 1200-hour unit with 4 320GB drives. Theres also a fairly detailed thread of the development process over at the AVS forums." Gonna need the space since scifi has decided to air 4 episodes of SG1 a day!
Brain/eye bandwidth is now the real problem. Anyone working on that?
If you have banked 1200 hours of TV programming that you still need to watch, you've obviously been slacking off on your TV watching responsibilities. Come on, people, get with the program... you act like all you have to do all day is work or something.
Let's see...this device allows you to watch over 1,000 hours of television programming without viewing the commercials? If Dante Alighieri were president of MPAA, the Tivo people would roam a ring of hell inbetween Mohammed Atta and the deMedici family. Valenti, on the other hand, will probably make some comparison to the Boston Strangler instead.
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
Taco wrote "Gonna need the space since scifi has decided to air 4 episodes of SG1 a day." I thought we were boycotting ScFi until they decided to bring back Farscape ;)
This is absurd. Does the consumerist beast that is America know no bounds?
No.
screw bounds checking, that ADA stuff is for dorks. Even the DOD dropped it!
Mekka- Do-dork-ahedron -B
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I'm pretty sure that you didn't spend 500 days outside last year either. . .
All my money went to Nigeria and all I got was this lousy sig. . .
Step 4. ???
Step 5. Profit!
If you really need a 4 drive raid array to make sure your Dawson's Creek episodes can survive a disk going down, you have issues that the Tivo Quadcard can't fix.
Mark
Copyright Industry Association of America spokestrog Vilary Halenti today lamented "the emergence of a new and more deadly form of IPiracy that will soon raid the and pillage the IP repositories of this great nation. The IPirates have upgraded from their little rubber dinghies they used to IPirate Copyrighted Protected Digital Intelletctual Property and are now getting TiVo-class heavy freighters that they can use to IPirate even more than ever before. We are disappointed that the US hasn't gone after these terrorists with the same vigor that they've gone after the Taliban and Al Qaeda. We can only hope that Rep. Berman's legalized hacking for rich copyright holders bill will set the precedent necessary for giving us the broad powers we need to defeat the IPirates."
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Nah, I'd rather sit around posting to Slashdot telling other people to go outside.
Hmmm... Thats all well and fine... but a bit excessive I'd say. I dont currently own a tivo - many of my friends do - and although I think they are nice, I dont think that I miss all that much not having 1200 hours or any other number, worth of space for recording.
however! please contact me when they have come out with a tivo that has an automated DVD burner in it - where I can schedule a show to be recorded - burned - deleted all while I am out at the beach!