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TiVo Will Stream Content From The Web
Patik writes "According to an article at the NY Times, 'new TiVo technology... will allow users to download movies and music from the Internet to the hard drive on their video recorder.' This is TiVo's next big push for subscribers after being dumped by DirecTV Tuesday. Blockbuster, Netflix, and Real are also looking into distributing feature-length movies over the web."
the head of the MPAA was quoted as saying, "Make the bad men stop!!!"
Don't be a looter...and yes, I know that it's spelled with an "A" instead of an "E".
Are they really prepared for this? Assuming that the movies are compressed down to 600-700MB, what happens when the 'latest blockbuster' is released an everyone tries to download it at once.
Good point, and with the mention of RealNetworks in the article, I have a disturbing mental image right now of a TV showing a text that reads "Buffering".
And iiinnn the red corner is Tivo a small but deeeaaaadly black box, iiinnn the BLUEE corner, is the huuuulking eiight huuundddreeedd poound gorillla motionpictureassociation OF AMERICAAAAAAAA!
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
God damn, I hate replying to my own post, but if you look at the gradn-parent (i.e. the parent of my post), they had mentioned that "porn finally comes to tivo". Now, with that post scoring so low as to be below most people's filters, my first post just looks like its out of no where....
"Stumble before you crawl"
Yeah, Tivo users will be able to download such internet classics as:
Fat Kid imitating Darth Maul
Drunk guy lighting fart on fire
Black guy talking about Whistle Tips on Car Muffler
Boy, You Tivo users sure are missing out on the latest in internet based video.
$x happens to be a lot less then $x?
He didn't say that. He said that $x happens to be a lot less than $x or $y, not both $x and $y. Since we know that $x can't be a lot less than itself we can conclude that it must be a lot less than $y.
Now I get to pay $x for a tivo subscription and $y for a broadband connection when rental is $x, which happens to be a lot less than $x or $y.
Ya know, there are more than two letters in the alphabet to choose from.
Yeah, but when your wife sits down and she starts getting all of you pr0n ads, she's gonna get suspicious that your not really spending all of your time on the computer reading slashdot.
(BTW - I agree, for the most part. Our hacked 135hr TiVo does a pretty good job of finding new stuff for the SO to watch, and keeps my Alton Brown safe and sound for me until I can find a few hours to watch 'em all. If TiVo got a multiple user function, we'd be in heaven - no wading through Haunted Houses of Eastern Mongolia and Bear in the Big Blue House to find my New Yankee Workshop)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
... I really do.
Windows XP Media Center
breaking into market or crushing market. either way it's here or nearly here. as usual, everyone has to go nuts. it does the tivo thing, it does the windows thing, and it also does the crushing competition thing. did they miss anything?
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
> I live out in the sticks
I'm sorry to hear you live in a tree.
For myself, I live out in the Styx, the middle of nowhere.
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Might work if not for the MPAA/RIAA they will screw it up some how.
I look for them to start redoing the comercials of the 80's that were done for polution. hmmm "A MPAA guy (older man looking haggard) looking over a of poor hollywood types that are starving and turns to the camera with a tear down running down his cheek" Sigh...