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TiVo Signs Up for Internet Video Content
lfescalante writes "TiVo, in an increasingly diversified attempt to offer new content to its subscriber base, today announced a partnership with Internet TV pioneer Brightcove to bring content partner video offerings from this company to Tivo boxes. The first fruits of this relationship should begin appearing within the coming months."
as we want!!!!
Information WANTS to be free!
It is so obvious!
A Trollaxor.com presentation!
Steve sipped his magic water, brow furrowed, listening with his head cocked to the side to the blather the record execs across the table were vomiting at him. The barfing had been ongoing for the better part of three hours, and Steve was bored. As he set his water bottle down, his mind meandered from the meeting to more interesting things. Dammit, Steve thought, this is my boardroom. It's about time they heard my speech!
Beside Steve in his stupor sat none other than Phil Schiller, mulleted and wearing his typical denim button-down, and John Rubenstein who was wearing a blue polo, collar-up, with iPod headphones snaking up over his hairy chest and pouring out the front of his collar. Not only was John the Senior Vice President of the iPod division, he was also a member.
As the meeting droned on, Phil noted the glazed look in John and Steve's eyes. Without moving a muscle, Phil fiddled with something underneath the table and a random burst of music exploded from John's neck. Before John could look down, however, the music stopped. Steve hadn't noticed and Phil looked over at John and smirked. John wondered when Phil had managed to take his Shuffle.
Clearing his throat, Steve rose from his chair, interrupting the record executives across from him. They looked up at Steve's blue-jeaned form, surprised. They watched as Steve strutted to the corner of the room and grabbed a new bottle of water out of a mini-fridge, uncapped it, and took a sip. He looked around him at all the expectant eyes, like baby birds held captive in a nest, and smiled.
"I have a little something to share with you today," Steve said, the fire coming back to his eyes. "We all do, in fact, and we're really excited to present this special Stevenote with you today."
Phil looked over to John and rolled his eyes. Having endured one too many Stevenotes, he wasn't what could be called very excited in the least. Stultified was probably a better term for what Phil was experiencing at the moment. John too had witnessed several private mini-keynotes where Steve Jobs had paraded around a boardroom and drove a point relentlessly home for hours on end.
Phil and John shrugged, helpless, and turned to Steve. At least it wasn't record company rhetoric.
"Gentlemen, today we stand here over two years after Apple and the recording industry made downloading music easy and legal," Steve began, not missing a beat. "And in two years we've grown in a really impressive way, and we've got some really impressive numbers to show you."
Without a word, Steve yanked a small device that looked like a black iPod Shuffle out of his pocket and clicked a button. Silently, metal armor appeared from the walls and covered the windows. The lights dimmed behind them, and a solid metal panel slid shut with a sucking sound over the doorway. One wall was lit by an unseen projector and down-tempo electronica started playing softly in the background.
The record executives looked around, frenzied, not sure what had just happened. Some grabbed for papers and shoved them into briefcases while others swung around in their chairs feeling for something to grab onto. They began muttering, asking one another what was going on, nerves on edge. One exec took his mobile phone out and opened it. He looked hysterical in the dim light.
"You'll see that your mobile phone's signal is jammed in here, as are all other means of external communication. Bluetooth and WiFi don't work, and the Ethernet cables to your laptops have been cut," Steve said to the executives. "You're all alone in here. All alone with just me, Phil, John, and the numbers."
Phil and John shook their heads in dismay.
Steve wasted no time in barraging the executives in an ejaculation of numbers. Tracks available thr
I wish Dish Network would learn from them. Agressive network adapter support. Network transfer of video built in. Probably 100 other things I can't list.
No, with Dish Network 635 you can put a memory stick in the USB port and it recognizes the "Multimedia Device." It knows it's a memory stick, probably the lowest form of transfer, sneaker net. It offers up a menu to allow you to send media to the device. Upon choosing the option to send media it reports "8(6?)37 this feature is not supported" before even listing files you can send. I'm sure this isn't the case with a Pocket Dish.
They recognized the USB mass storage device, they included the drivers for it, they built the menus to allow data transfer, then some PHB told the techs to limit transfers only to "Pocket Dish" devices. I thought maybe it's because I have FAT16 on the memory stick, but one mke2fs later it still doesn't work.
So now I'll bow to the PHB overlords and buy their stinking Pocket Dish, but I'll be disgruntled....veeeeeeeerrrrrrry disgruntled while giving them my money. I shake my fist at you PHBs and your trophy wives while you laugh your way to the bank.
The other option which I've actually done requires cracking the case, removing a drive, putting it into your machine, hoping it doesn't confuse GRUB...I had to use knoppix, probably my fault, didn't troubleshoot it...then copying the files to your drive. It has 3 partitions, the first seems like a persistant temp drive, the second has some media on it I think??, the third has all of your videos in various MPEG codecs with possibly multiple language audio tracks sometimes including AC3/A52 english. It's like they recompressed the DVD directly to a satellite stream, probably because they did.
The yahoo groups hacker community response(so far) is buy a standalone DVD burner and use the analog output to playback the video realtime into it. Where's the fun in that I ask, where did the AC3 track go, what is your hacker badge # private? Plus.. you could introduce even more artifacts than Dish already beams down. I think there has been a presumption on the part of the public that digital video means high quality when it only means consistant quality with litte evident RF interference...a 28kbps realvideo feed from '97 is technically digital quality video.
Also, compression quality aside, some of the videos are beaming down in higher res than NTSC, and much higher than NTSC captured by the Lowest Commond Denominator chip then re-encoded. I would personally like to get that first feed before the dish's decoder can mangle an NTSC feed out of it, and before whatever recorder I use likely jacks up the audio. Even if it has optical inputs and deftly re-encodes the AC3 stream, that's still a lossy recording of a lossy reproduction of a lossy recording.
Anyway, I'm their bitch for the forseeable future, can anyone help?
Apostrophes are for posessive or contractions, NOT plurals.
In the case of your sentance the 'to' belongs to your 'ad', which, obviously, makes no sense. This is one of the simpler ideas of grammar...