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TiVo, MS, and the War for the Living Room
r-blo writes "Hot off his in-depth comparison of TiVo vs. Microsoft Media Center, Engadget has Thomas Hawk following up with ten things each that TiVo and Microsoft need to do to win the War for the Living Room. It won't be easy (like TiVo offering their OS as software for the PC. Not going to happen.) but I've got a feeling they might be better off listening up. Especially TiVo, since we're all rooting for them anyway."
Especially TiVo, since we're all rooting for them anyway.
We are???
I don't know about YOU, but i certainly don't wanna have sex with my TiVo.....
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
- Create a "My Radio" option and a "My Radio" guide. If I would like to listen to KFOG's "Live at the Archives" on Wednesday morning at 3 a.m., so be it. If I would like to get a season pass to Howard Stern, great. These files should be saved to MP3 and be portable.
What, are these people CRAZY?!? There's no way a device that has the capability of RECORDING RADIO (or anything) is EVER going to be kosher with the DMCA!!! And the capability to save them in MP3 format? Whoever thought that must have lost their mind. Isn't anyone paying attention to what the RIAA has been telling us lately? Recording stuff is BAD. Paying for stuff every time you play it on another device is GOOD. Sheesh - it's like these people don't remember how those whole "cassette player" and "CD player" fads RUINED music and radio and made it so no one could make money because no one would buy any cassettes or CDs anymore...
wait...
hold on...
THEY DIDN'T.
I was in the park the other day wondering why frisbees get bigger and bigger the closer they get - and then it hit me.
Listen up: In Australia, "rooting" is a slang verb which means "to have sex with".
This is why it is rare (though not unheard of) to hear of a devoted Australian cheerleader rooting for her whole team.
Perhaps this explains why we don't have Tivo in Australia?
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My wife keeps recording shows that she is never going to watch and keeps them on the HDD forever (You've Got mail, Down With Love, etc). I'd like some way of backing these up to free up the drive space.
Newlywed, eh?
Just tell her you did it. Problem solved.
TiVo, MS and other PVR manufacturers should work to create an open standard for publishing programming guide information, and they should try to get all broadcasters to adopt this standard. No more US-only products!
However it should be noted that Microsoft usually gets things right on the third revision. So maybe after the media pc flops the next thing they come out with will soar.
;)
1. Windows 95
2. Windows 98
3. Windows ME
You gotta upgrade your wife dude..