TiVo and Rendezvous

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Posted by pudge on Thursday January 9, 2003 @04:03AM from the gimme-gimme-some-lovin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just found this press release on the Apple web site. Time to upgrade the TiVo?" Looks way excellent. Right now I have an old iBook sitting on top of the TV, and it streams MP3s via AirPort from the server. But it would be so much better to just listen to the MP3s through the TiVo instead ... and have access to my iPhoto albums too? Sweet. But I would still want it to be wireless: Josuah writes "Alex King has set up his TiVo 2 to download its meta information over his 802.11b network, instead of the landline. He's got step-by-step instructions up." I'd probably want to use 802.11g though ... lots of data, this is.

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MS by grub · 2003-01-09 04:07 · Score: 5, Funny

From: billg@microsoft.com
To: Research and Development

I don't pay the two of you in R&D to play Quake all day! Find out what this Rendezvous is and copy it! I'll prepare a hot press release announcing it today. Be ready to ship by 2006.

Thanks,

Bill

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pr0n use? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-09 04:07 · Score: 3, Funny

Find a way to use this for pr0n, and it'll be an instant success.
mmmMMMmm by plexxer · 2003-01-09 04:12 · Score: 5, Funny

>I'd probably want to use 802.11g though ... lots of data, this is.

Talk like Yoda Slashdot editors now do.

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Rendezvous by jaavaaguru · 2003-01-09 04:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Rendesvous sounds like Windows Network Neighborhood done properly :-)

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Magic 8-Ball Sez by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-09 04:21 · Score: 0, Funny

Cool Apple tech surfaces. Apple scrambles like the Keystone Kops. It turns out that Apple didn't bless the wafer. Cool Apple tech vanishes. Apple lovers and haters dance together on the grave of cool Apple tech.

Second verse, same as the first.
You want to connect it to your Mac?! by stratjakt · 2003-01-09 04:25 · Score: 4, Funny

No wonder your TiVo thinks you're gay. /me waves bye-bye to some karma.

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At last! by Anand_S · 2003-01-09 04:40 · Score: 2, Funny

It took all night, but I finally got Debian installed on my TiVo. Where's my $200,000?
Re:Broadcast to other TiVos? by milenko11 · 2003-01-09 04:51 · Score: 1, Funny

At least you'll have a good excuse for the wife when she comes home early and see pr0n on the tv. "Honost honey. I don't know how it got there"
Re:802.11g for meta information? by happystink · 2003-01-09 05:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Listen, you obviously don't grasp the complexities of this: g is a higher lette than b, and it's newer, so it's better and 802.11b sucks, it's useless, it's garbage. I know we all loved it last week, but now that Apple has announced some g units coming out, we all hate it.

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Not good enough by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-09 05:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Don't forget to say "And furthermore, who pulled my dick out of my pants??"

That's the toughest part to sell.
I recorded Will & Grace for my gf and now Tivo by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-09 05:58 · Score: 1, Funny

thinks I am gay.
Re:Tivo network hardware mods by Skidge · 2003-01-09 06:48 · Score: 4, Funny

The only person at home who uses my home phone line is Tivo

I just got a Tivo for christmas. Am I going to start refering to him as a member of my household? Actually, I could almost see that, since tivo has made watching TV tolerable again with the ability to zip through the commercials at near light speed.