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PC that acts like a TV
An anonymous reader writes "CNN is reporting on the newest HP Media Center PC, a PC that "acts like a TV". Seems to me it is a TIVO with some additional features, like storing and displaying pictures and music files. Runs on some sort of Windows XP." The real killer with this whole genre of device is cost and confusion. Users don't know what they do, so its not worth the cost. Anyone who has used a tivo for a week knows what it means. Business just needs to get the costs down. I think including functionality like pictures and music is a good step towards increasing value, as long as it doesn't
add to the confusion.
And Slate thinks TiVo is doomed? When their competitors are trying to sell virtually the same thing for $1,400? Hah, I say! Hah!
New $5,000 Multimedia Computer System Downloads Real-Time TV Programs, Displays Them On Monitor
This concept has been out for a while, but has never appealed to me. I have no desire to fight with other family members over TV time vs computer time. It goes like this:
Mom and Dad are watching their fav show, a commercial comes on and Dad says 'I need to check my mail' - click - 'Oh look, someone sent me a new joke' click-click - The screen goes black, the system reboots. Mom whacks Dad with the newspaper for opening a virus and making her miss the end of the show.
So it can do all that stuff in the article, without costing so much.
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The next generation of TiVo can be used just like a computer!
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I think it is:
$1000 for the HP logo
$50 for S/H
Wow... and to think that I was doing the impossbile by burning CDs while working in Photoshop and Homesite while watching divx compressed movies with a couple of putty, kazaa, edonkey, mirc and bpftp sessions in the background on my P3-866.
Time to call the Weekly World News, we gots a miracle on our hands.
the Discovery Channel shows a one-time special, "When Animals Attack Cops During Natural Disasters", or one of those other shows I love,
Yee I love that show its the BOMB!!! seriously did you see the one where a mongosse bit the balls of that traffic cop in the middle of Force 6 winds? great T.V.
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
Yes there is too such as word as "boxen"; it is a perfectly cromulent word.
I suggest you embiggen yourself and stop these petty, uninformed posts to Slashdot.