- Can it mix a flaming Homer? - To add a new drink do you need to recompile the kernal - Can you get KPeanuts? - It'd do it in 9 seconds if it ran Gnome - To get ice do you have to type MixScotch -ice - Ah, but will it listen to how bad your day was. "Barmonkey? yeah Windows 98 crashed again"
Hmm, that's probably all of the non technical posts for this story.
Tivo itself is sold in the UK. You could certinaly buy a non-subscription unit here and use it elsewhere that uses PAL. (although without program guide)
"Look dear, I didn't mind you starting a company here when we were young and there was no office. I even let you make chips here, I EVEN didn't mind when you extended our living room to 4 square miles BUT I WILL NOT LET YOU BRING IBM IN HERE!"
Nah, these days they all use Windows, how much they do to force the hardware I don't know, but since it's a demo the answer must be "As much as they damn well can". A mods have largely given way to MP3s.
But this is just such an obviously cool product I had to flag it. A load of guys have done a 4 hour plus DVD-Video of Demos running on the machines that ran them best. Everything from 1990-2001, including (of course) 2nd reality.
I got it on release day and it's superb, even with easter eggs and original music from demo artists for the menu.
Certinally so here. There's a catch-all known as "The Computer Misuse Act". It's basically ilegal to use any computer for anything without permission and it's broad enough to apply to todays clothes washers and microwaves
The problem is that farscape costs a butt load to make. Someone has to pay for that, if it's not on HBO or something it's got to be the viewer via ads.
And the advertisers will only pay if the people who buy stuff are watching.
They're far more common in terms of factual shows, for instance the previously mentioned "tomorrows world" after well over 30. But there's a few here in the UK, possibly because it's very common for shows to skip years. (partly because there's usually 6-8 in a season).
For instance Red Dwarf has been around since 1988 but there's only been 8 seasons and 52 episodes. There's a film and a 9th being written, refreshingly, these will be shown "when they're ready".
I think a model like this could maybe save shows like Farscape, especially in a situation like this where you'll be rebuilding most of it anyway. Take a year or two off and return with a new and final season in 2004/5.
Then they get to choose the commercials that exist in the de-facto standard download for that episode. And the advertisers will know that, and pay more for the privledge.
Nah, because it'd be even easier to just cut out between the first keyframe of the brrak and the last keyfram of the break and reshare.
They wouldn't even have to do the capturing, the network would have done the hard work. It would literally be a 30second job.
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Although raw HDTV is going to need a lot more reliable speed.
You're talking a steady 20MB/sec which is asking quite a lot of your average 5400rpm drive (which is what most of the big ones are)
True, but we may have reached a slight plateau.
Sound files are not getting much bigger per minute. Totally uncompressed audio is no more than 5MB/min tops in a format like shn.
Video isn't going to get a heck of a lot bigger than DVD-Video sizes.
I mean, the 40MB drive I had just over a decade ago, no music, no video. And that's what's driving it.
Unless someone finds a huge new use for space (delete microsoft joke) then maybe it'll at least slow.
course it won't stop immediately. But Music, then Video drove expansion in size. What NEW is coming along to do that?
Yes, but then Eliza would get drunk.
"Will Windows 98 crashed again be my friend"
"Eliza so lonley"
"Eliza never find true love"
Right, let's get some of these out of the way
- Can it mix a flaming Homer?
- To add a new drink do you need to recompile the kernal
- Can you get KPeanuts?
- It'd do it in 9 seconds if it ran Gnome
- To get ice do you have to type MixScotch -ice
- Ah, but will it listen to how bad your day was. "Barmonkey? yeah Windows 98 crashed again"
Hmm, that's probably all of the non technical posts for this story.
Tivo itself is sold in the UK. You could certinaly buy a non-subscription unit here and use it elsewhere that uses PAL. (although without program guide)
"Look dear, I didn't mind you starting a company here when we were young and there was no office. I even let you make chips here, I EVEN didn't mind when you extended our living room to 4 square miles BUT I WILL NOT LET YOU BRING IBM IN HERE!"
Go to their forum.
:)
They're planning a volume 2, quite possibly with the Amiga stuff. Make your voice heard and we'll get our Amiga one.
I love both, fine by me
Nah, these days they all use Windows, how much they do to force the hardware I don't know, but since it's a demo the answer must be "As much as they damn well can". A mods have largely given way to MP3s.
:)
Still they do look superb still
No, I'm not connected with these guys.
But this is just such an obviously cool product I had to flag it. A load of guys have done a 4 hour plus DVD-Video of Demos running on the machines that ran them best. Everything from 1990-2001, including (of course) 2nd reality.
I got it on release day and it's superb, even with easter eggs and original music from demo artists for the menu.
http://www.mindcandydvd.com
they could have done the same just as easily with the next step.
The saturn uses a 68000 (Megadrive cpu) as its sound chip.
Unfortunately yes it's cable city there.
I bypass it. My Digitalbox has a phono out itself so I stick that straight to line in.
Made you look ;)
Certinally so here. There's a catch-all known as "The Computer Misuse Act". It's basically ilegal to use any computer for anything without permission and it's broad enough to apply to todays clothes washers and microwaves
True and in essence I agree with you.
The problem is that farscape costs a butt load to make. Someone has to pay for that, if it's not on HBO or something it's got to be the viewer via ads.
And the advertisers will only pay if the people who buy stuff are watching.
They're far more common in terms of factual shows, for instance the previously mentioned "tomorrows world" after well over 30. But there's a few here in the UK, possibly because it's very common for shows to skip years. (partly because there's usually 6-8 in a season).
For instance Red Dwarf has been around since 1988 but there's only been 8 seasons and 52 episodes. There's a film and a 9th being written, refreshingly, these will be shown "when they're ready".
I think a model like this could maybe save shows like Farscape, especially in a situation like this where you'll be rebuilding most of it anyway. Take a year or two off and return with a new and final season in 2004/5.
It was then it all went a bit pear shaped. :p
I didn't say it was legal. I said it wouldn't work.
Doesn't matter to me, the DMCA doesn't apply in the UK.
My bad, wrong group of evil overlords
Well my hauppauge doesn't suffer that, I've captured macrovision with it.
Transatlantic shipping might be painful.
And that's if it even handles PAL.
Again, the PC with the capture card is immune.
Macrovision works by fooling TVs with auto-ajusting tracking, horizontal hold etc.
It would take mere miliseconds to remove such things from a linux (or OSS win) capture util.
And indeed it already happens. Most DVDs have macrovision. You throw that out at the DeCSS stage.
They only sell Tivo here.
I'll just go with Plan A and capture it to PC in the first place,
Indeed, I'd certinally get the original one.
:P
Then I'd spend some of the time I saved cutting out the breaks
Well to another hardward MPEG2 you shouldn't lose too much.
But absolutely the best idea is to try to get the original capture. Or just to buy a hardward MPEG2 for your PC/MAC/Amiga with Video Toaster
Then they get to choose the commercials that exist in the de-facto standard download for that episode. And the advertisers will know that, and pay more for the privledge.
Nah, because it'd be even easier to just cut out between the first keyframe of the brrak and the last keyfram of the break and reshare.
They wouldn't even have to do the capturing, the network would have done the hard work. It would literally be a 30second job.