Sonicblue files for Chap 11

An anonymous reader writes "ReplayTV and Rio maker Sonicblue is a goner, filing for bankruptcy and selling their assets to D&M, the Japanese parent company of Denon and Marantz. No word what will happen to all those Replay users out there -- that $140 deal on Amazon isn't looking so hot now, is it?"

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OT: A Moderation Lesson

[Rick the Red]

If it's the first time the idea is expressed in a story, it's not redundant, and I meta-moderate accordingly. [BTW, I don't consider "the way the hard-drive based Sonic players connected to your PC without the need for special drivers" (or any other part of the post) to be a "widely held notion," so even if I agreed with your position on 'redundant' this post doesn't qualify.]

Prime example: "First Post" posts are, by your terms, redundant, but that's poor moderation; "First Post" posts are offtopic, not redundant, even though the effect is the same (-1).

They're not trolls or flamebait, either. A troll is a post that is fishing (trolling) for replies, and has nothing to do with creatures who live under bridges. Flamebait is a subset of troll: it's posting a deliberately extreme statement, baiting hotheads to respond with flames. A "First Post" is neither, but I metamoderat such moderation as "fair" even though it's inaccurate.