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TiVo vs. Windows Media Center Edition

The Importance of writes "Two reviewers make head-to-head comparisons of TiVo and Windows Media Center Edition (here and here). TiVo still comes out ahead, but MCE is improving. Of course, some tout the flexibility of PC-based DVRs, while others question what this flexibility means when you have things like the broadcast flag and the INDUCE Act."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. eh! tú! sí, tú... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    comeme el porro.

    coto matamoros

  3. Buy TIVO!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Buy TIVO!! Help it's stock go up!

  4. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How the hell is _that_ offtopic? Sheesh!

  5. Re:Personally by SIGALRM · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's an awful lot of energy wasted trying to dislike something

    Shady business tactics aside, Microsoft does produce some excellent server management tools, and great productivity software. I've learned that although I'm a huge F/OSS fan, it's hard to beat Visio.

    Sometimes, they win because they deserved to. And if MCE eventually falls into that category, I might just buy it...

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  6. morons vs. robbIE's fauxking PostBlock censorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    devise? it's whoreabully infactdead yet.

    hobbyists whiners shine vs. j. public?

    the kindumb lameNTdead again today, that over 1/3 of 'software' in use, is pierated, &/or ?stolen?, so to speak?

    the gnu generation of open/honest communications/commerce, requires 0 (as in none) copyrightdead nazi felon BugWear, to function optimally.

    no contest really? & just look at all the headaches/embarrassmeNT to be avoided?

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... supplying everything we need, since/until forever. see you there?

    robbIE's pateNTdead PostBlock censorship devise kode, is unwanted/infactdead in both pools?

  7. gmail account by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-2d144511b8-bac5cbe 5af

    1. Re:gmail account by vegetablespork · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Thanks!

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    2. Re:gmail account by motte_fra · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      you're welcome

  8. Re:Sorry by jprior2001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Honestly, who has this much time to watch TV? Get outside, do something a little more exciting.

  9. Language evolution note: "setup" by ColonelPanic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've noticed over the past six months in Web content and corporate e-mail a fascinating increase in verb contractions. What used to be a two-word verb form, "set up", has contracted to a single word, "setup", which hitherto had been used only as a noun (e.g., "hey, look at my cool computer setup here").

    This is a meme that's spreading quickly. I'm curious how far it will go. Do those people who write "setup" as a verb also write "throwup" as one yet?

    Yes, I know about the comparable German verb forms.

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  10. Re:Personally by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    it's hard to beat Visio.

    Which is undoubtedly why MS bought Visio Corp., the guys who created it, circa mid-late '90s.

    But I agree with you. MS makes some great products, and it's juvenile to overlook them simply beacuse "M$ is Evil, d00D!!!" Frankly, if for nothing else, MS should be given props for inventing the stuff (Office suite integration, e.g.) that the other guys inevitably come along and re-create less expensively, more securely, whatever.