PC that acts like a TV

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 13, 2002 @01:46AM from the start-of-a-trend dept.

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.

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TV that acts like a PC by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-13 01:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Thanks to xbox linux.
Hmmm.... by Pig+Hogger · 2002-10-13 02:16 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Computer? TV?
I'd like to see if a beowulf cluster of those would be more stupid than the collective of everyone watching the boob tube...
HEY ASSHOLE by cscx · 2002-10-13 03:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You know, it's pretty lame when you respond to your own post as AC (located just above this) to simply restate what you said here.

You don't have to comment the same repetitive shit 3 times in a thread.

By the way, get a DRM education - Palladium is able to be disabled quite easily. Why don't you get some education about a subject before you start flaming left and right?