I tried copying a few shows to my PC using S-Video and a TV tuner card -- the video was awful. You're basically converting a lossy compression to analog and then re-encoding it. I would be so happy to pay for a TIVO with a built in DVD-RW...but I guess the MPAA wouldn't be too happy about it.
I put in an additional 100 GB drive and it's probably 3/4 filled up by now. Not only is "Now Showing" slow as hell, whenever I try to manage my season passes or wishlists, it takes forever! It's gotten to the point where I've decided to keep my TIVO as empty as possible for the speed benefits, even though technically I can afford 120 hours of programming. I would never upgrade to more than I have now, until TIVO comes out with a much faster system.
$20 a month?? Here in New York City, it's more like $20 a visit...
I've been using the park as much as possible. Spending lots of time outdoors, running, biking, hiking. Doesn't do much for building muscle, but I have been getting in great shape this year.
Yeah -- I've had no problems burning CD's and DVD+R with it. I've even got it hooked up to an external USB 2.0 interface connected to a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card, with no problems at all. Believe me, I was surprised too...
I didn't have to hack the registry and NERO Burning ROM (5.5.9) detected my drive (DRU-120A) perfectly. I was actually surprised because I had planned on using the included Sony software and was happy not to have to.
Sony makes a device that records CD's onto it's hard drive (even includes lookup to CDDB, I believe) and can be programmed to record radio broadcasts at specific times of the day, no PC required. It was in the NYTimes Circuits section a few weeks ago...
I'm already using lame at high quality VBR. My bitrates usually work out between 170 and 200 and the quality is near perfect. Any reason I should change?
I just went through the exact same decision process and we decided to go with a custom solution. We were going to pay to have one of the big packages customized anyway, so in terms of cost it was a wash. By building our own, we were able to control costs more closely and only implement the features that were most useful in the 1.0. We ended up selecting a developer who already had a library of customizable tools, so we don't pay the full development costs up front and the best thing? The source code is provided to us at the end of the project.
Because I've got 45 GB of music, and honestly I'm not even done with all of my CD's. And it really adds up when you use high VBR, most of my files are in the 7 - 9 MB range. Trust me, you'll always want more space in the long run, if not right away.
The technology behind the process is nothing new. I worked for a bio-tech startup in the mid nineties that pioneered and first commercialized the process of phytoextraction. Of course, that company is long gone, but another company bought the technology and is trying it again. http://www.edenspace.com
There is no chance that Episode II will be any better than Episode I. And none of them will live up to the original 3 films. All he's doing is turning the Star Wars movies into Disney influenced marketing machines....
Does anybody remember the Fisher Price video camera that recorded onto standard audio cassettes? The quality was b/w, grainy and there was no sound, but what a fun toy!
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I tried copying a few shows to my PC using S-Video and a TV tuner card -- the video was awful. You're basically converting a lossy compression to analog and then re-encoding it. I would be so happy to pay for a TIVO with a built in DVD-RW...but I guess the MPAA wouldn't be too happy about it.
I put in an additional 100 GB drive and it's probably 3/4 filled up by now. Not only is "Now Showing" slow as hell, whenever I try to manage my season passes or wishlists, it takes forever! It's gotten to the point where I've decided to keep my TIVO as empty as possible for the speed benefits, even though technically I can afford 120 hours of programming. I would never upgrade to more than I have now, until TIVO comes out with a much faster system.
And bad spellers of the world, UNTIE!
$20 a month?? Here in New York City, it's more like $20 a visit... I've been using the park as much as possible. Spending lots of time outdoors, running, biking, hiking. Doesn't do much for building muscle, but I have been getting in great shape this year.
Yeah -- I've had no problems burning CD's and DVD+R with it. I've even got it hooked up to an external USB 2.0 interface connected to a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card, with no problems at all. Believe me, I was surprised too...
I didn't have to hack the registry and NERO Burning ROM (5.5.9) detected my drive (DRU-120A) perfectly. I was actually surprised because I had planned on using the included Sony software and was happy not to have to.
Sony makes a device that records CD's onto it's hard drive (even includes lookup to CDDB, I believe) and can be programmed to record radio broadcasts at specific times of the day, no PC required. It was in the NYTimes Circuits section a few weeks ago...
Dude...you're not supposed to park in handicapped spaces. Don't you watch Seinfeld?
Oh thanks! Now I'm out of a job...
Do you realize that more than half of the people that I help with computer problems just have slow computers because of this? If they only knew...
I believe that Apple announced a PC compatable version of the ipod last week at MacWorld.
Now I can root your box in record time!
I'm already using lame at high quality VBR. My bitrates usually work out between 170 and 200 and the quality is near perfect. Any reason I should change?
I just went through the exact same decision process and we decided to go with a custom solution. We were going to pay to have one of the big packages customized anyway, so in terms of cost it was a wash. By building our own, we were able to control costs more closely and only implement the features that were most useful in the 1.0. We ended up selecting a developer who already had a library of customizable tools, so we don't pay the full development costs up front and the best thing? The source code is provided to us at the end of the project.
I think he was referring to the ability to upgrade the amount of storage the machine can handle.
Because I've got 45 GB of music, and honestly I'm not even done with all of my CD's. And it really adds up when you use high VBR, most of my files are in the 7 - 9 MB range. Trust me, you'll always want more space in the long run, if not right away.
I have to agree -- I've used the glossy ones with a high dpi inkjet and the results were amazing.
what good guys?
You can find it at http://www.mrousseau.org/programs/ti99sim/. Just think, you could be playing TI Invaders, Parsec and Munch Man in no time!
The technology behind the process is nothing new. I worked for a bio-tech startup in the mid nineties that pioneered and first commercialized the process of phytoextraction. Of course, that company is long gone, but another company bought the technology and is trying it again. http://www.edenspace.com
Anybody found a spot in NYC?
I just went and bought almost $100 in used books. I probably would have spent three times that if I had bought them new!
it may be a fake, but it looks damn good!
There is no chance that Episode II will be any better than Episode I. And none of them will live up to the original 3 films. All he's doing is turning the Star Wars movies into Disney influenced marketing machines....
Does anybody remember the Fisher Price video camera that recorded onto standard audio cassettes? The quality was b/w, grainy and there was no sound, but what a fun toy!
look at Mandrake 7 -- you use the first cd for all the important stuff, and the second CD is just *gravy* heh