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Microsoft Takes on TiVo

Posted by michael on from the wake-up-call dept.

CatsCradle writes "The Seattle Times has an article about Microsoft's Foundation and their new partnership with Comcast to provide a TiVo-like service."

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  1. Ultimate TV??? by RudyG13 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Didnt' they already try this?

    Yup thought so

  2. (just about) anything is an improvement for cc by LinuxHam · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have Comcast's current HDTV/PVR offering, and it pales in comparison to my series 1 standalone TiVO. To get a season pass, you search by title, and individually record each episode that shows up in the search results.

    Just about everything you like about the TiVO ain't there yet for "Com-assed". The one big thing the box has going for it is direct firewire access to the current video stream including on demand content, hdtv, and stuff from the dvr library. Of course, once MS gets loaded on the box, you know they're going to lock it down.

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  3. Seriously? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Informative
    "when is the last time you saw a blue screen in XP?"

    Seriously? It was yesterday, during boot-up. I had to power it off. Thankfully, it did not blue-screen during the next boot.

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  4. Anandtech by bersl2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    They had a review of MCE2k5 (and MythTV) and Myth vs. MCE2k4).

  5. Blue screen fix by MachineShedFred · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're right. You don't ever see a BSOD on XP because Microsoft "fixed" it by having it automatically reboot as soon as it does it by default.

    Yup, no more BSOD! Just random reboots instead. Good work team!

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