When I overshoot using the 30-second skip, I just bounce on the 8-second replay until I get back to the start of the show. I use fast-forward a lot too, but I've found that I'm faster at hitting 30ss a bunch and going back with 8s.
BTW - I downloaded your Red Pill screensaver a couple weeks ago and it's pretty dang cool. I just realized that it's yours. Unfortunately I can't leave it on because it gets my PB12 pretty dang hot, and I'd prefer it to cool down when I'm not using it.:)
No, it doesn't. Turning off the sound enhancer and volume check help alleviate the problem but don't make it go away. Turning down the pre-amp in the EQ also helps a little bit, but the problem was still there.
I don't really, since I rarely use anything other than High. I think I can get 35-40 hours at high with the 120GB hard drive I put in, so I imagine Best will probably get about 25-30 or so. A search at tivocommunity should give you a more definitive answer, but the search is turned off right now (probably because of load trouble they've had lately).
My recommendation is to get the 40 hour unit and then upgrade it with a 120GB drive. The upgrade is extremely well documented and if you've tinkered with the inside of a computer much at all you should be able to handle it.
No, they work great with DirecTV! You just need to get an infared transmitter (IR Blaster) and compile support into your kernel, then download the MythTV-DirecTV-IRBlaster-0.01-beta patch, apply it to your sources, blah blah blah...
Or if you would rather just spend your tv watching time actually *watching tv*, DirecTiVo is the answer.
How is TiVo's 30-second skip a pain in the butt? You type a six button sequence to turn it on, which doesn't need to be done again until a reboot. Then it's just 1 button to skip 30 seconds. How is that hard?
I'll tell you what's a pain in the butt - building your own PVR. Trust me I've done it. I still love my TiVo more.
Your friend heard incorrectly. TiVo has 4 levels of compression available: Basic, Medium, High, and Best.
Best: Virtually indistinguishable from the original broadcast. This is a good level for sports or movies with a lot of action scenes.
High: I record everything (except sports) in high. For most shows, it's also very very close to original broadcast quality. On my 120GB TiVo I get about 40 hours recorded at High quality.
Medium: Obviously a small step down from High. Dark scenes start getting hard to see, there are artifacts, etc. I never record at medium.
Basic: I think this one sucks pretty bad and never record anything with it. However, I would get like 130+ hours of recording time on my 120GB TiVo if I used it all the time. Some people are satisfied with it, but I suspect those people have smaller TV sets.
We have a 60" TV, so it's big enough for the quality to be important, and with High and Best, TiVo's quality is awesome. Definitely better than VCD, and better than most DivX encodings I've seen (although I understand you can encode DivX at real high rates too).
You're still completely missing my point aren't you? 4.0 has a big volume fluctuation bug, which affects all formats, at all bitrates, VBR or CBR, everything. Upgrading to 4.0.1 fixes it. If you're more interested in your music sounding good than being able to stream it over the internet, the upgrade is worth it.
If you want to keep nitpicking, even listening at a concert is lossy, considering how the sound degrades travelling through the air on the way to your ears. Do you see how ridiculous this has become?
No, if you really care about the quality of your music, you use a non-lossy format. Besides, the volume fluctuation bug screwed up your music no matter what you encoded it with.
He's saying that you don't have to download each file individually. You can make a.torrent file out of a directory, and that whole directory will be downloaded.
iTunes 4.01 also fixes a HUGE volume fluctuation bug. Apparently some volume limiter was way too aggressive and caused a mushy sound unless you turned off all sound enhancements and lowered the pre-amp (and even then it was still a problem).
4.01 fixes this problem completely which should make it worth upgrading too if you care about the quality of your music.
While I don't agree that BnW is boring as heck, your point is valid (especially if you choose to play as a good god - way too much micromanagement required). PM has recognized the flaws and BW2 will most likely be amazing. There's a pretty cool video floating around of PM demonstrating some of the new gameplay elements and the screenshots of the new landscape engine are breathtaking.
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Ummm, USPS is NOT a private entity, it is still owned by the government (although it runs pretty independently). There's been talk of spinning it off as a private corporation, but it hasn't happened.
Please provide a link backing up what you're saying. The *only* thing that was ever uploaded to napster was a list of the songs on your machine. When you actually did a file transfer, you sent the file straight to the recipient, or them straight to you.
Yes they did. Not only did they host the songs (it wasn't a p2p application), but, to save bandwidth, when you "uploaded" a song, if it was already on-site, they didn't bother uploading your copy.
Ummm... no they didn't. Napster acted as an index. File transfers happened peer-to-peer. Napster was most definitely a p2p application. It was the first big p2p application. It's disturbing that someone with a 5 digit/. UID doesn't know this...
It implies nothing. You said yourself it happens "at least twice". If it's really only 2 or 3 times that's hardly enough times for a rational person to assume that it's more than coincidence.
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Ummm... The rest of your ill-thought out diatribe aside, Sony has licensed TiVo's technology and sells a Sony branded TiVo.
I don't know how much stock I'd put in what Manzione says. He's really pissed off right now cause he busted his 17" PowerBook and Apple wouldn't replace it for him. AAC may be crap quality compared to the actual CD, but very few people will claim that 128kbps AAC is worse than 128kbps MP3.
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This "thumbs-up"-ing a preview for an upcoming show only works for a handful of shows on NBC. But when it's there, it's dang convenient!
LUFS has done this for more than a year, and not just through ssh. I use it all the time and it works great.
When I overshoot using the 30-second skip, I just bounce on the 8-second replay until I get back to the start of the show. I use fast-forward a lot too, but I've found that I'm faster at hitting 30ss a bunch and going back with 8s.
BTW - I downloaded your Red Pill screensaver a couple weeks ago and it's pretty dang cool. I just realized that it's yours. Unfortunately I can't leave it on because it gets my PB12 pretty dang hot, and I'd prefer it to cool down when I'm not using it. :)
No, it doesn't. Turning off the sound enhancer and volume check help alleviate the problem but don't make it go away. Turning down the pre-amp in the EQ also helps a little bit, but the problem was still there.
Oh yeah? I must have underestimated then. All I know is that there's always plenty of stuff waiting on the TiVo to watch when I get bored. :)
I don't really, since I rarely use anything other than High. I think I can get 35-40 hours at high with the 120GB hard drive I put in, so I imagine Best will probably get about 25-30 or so. A search at tivocommunity should give you a more definitive answer, but the search is turned off right now (probably because of load trouble they've had lately).
My recommendation is to get the 40 hour unit and then upgrade it with a 120GB drive. The upgrade is extremely well documented and if you've tinkered with the inside of a computer much at all you should be able to handle it.
No, they work great with DirecTV! You just need to get an infared transmitter (IR Blaster) and compile support into your kernel, then download the MythTV-DirecTV-IRBlaster-0.01-beta patch, apply it to your sources, blah blah blah...
Or if you would rather just spend your tv watching time actually *watching tv*, DirecTiVo is the answer.
How is TiVo's 30-second skip a pain in the butt? You type a six button sequence to turn it on, which doesn't need to be done again until a reboot. Then it's just 1 button to skip 30 seconds. How is that hard?
I'll tell you what's a pain in the butt - building your own PVR. Trust me I've done it. I still love my TiVo more.
Your friend heard incorrectly. TiVo has 4 levels of compression available: Basic, Medium, High, and Best.
Best: Virtually indistinguishable from the original broadcast. This is a good level for sports or movies with a lot of action scenes.
High: I record everything (except sports) in high. For most shows, it's also very very close to original broadcast quality. On my 120GB TiVo I get about 40 hours recorded at High quality.
Medium: Obviously a small step down from High. Dark scenes start getting hard to see, there are artifacts, etc. I never record at medium.
Basic: I think this one sucks pretty bad and never record anything with it. However, I would get like 130+ hours of recording time on my 120GB TiVo if I used it all the time. Some people are satisfied with it, but I suspect those people have smaller TV sets.
We have a 60" TV, so it's big enough for the quality to be important, and with High and Best, TiVo's quality is awesome. Definitely better than VCD, and better than most DivX encodings I've seen (although I understand you can encode DivX at real high rates too).
You're still completely missing my point aren't you? 4.0 has a big volume fluctuation bug, which affects all formats, at all bitrates, VBR or CBR, everything. Upgrading to 4.0.1 fixes it. If you're more interested in your music sounding good than being able to stream it over the internet, the upgrade is worth it.
If you want to keep nitpicking, even listening at a concert is lossy, considering how the sound degrades travelling through the air on the way to your ears. Do you see how ridiculous this has become?
No, if you really care about the quality of your music, you use a non-lossy format. Besides, the volume fluctuation bug screwed up your music no matter what you encoded it with.
He's saying that you don't have to download each file individually. You can make a .torrent file out of a directory, and that whole directory will be downloaded.
Send these lyrics over to MC Hawking. I'm sure he can lay down real smooth.
4.01 fixes this problem completely which should make it worth upgrading too if you care about the quality of your music.
While I don't agree that BnW is boring as heck, your point is valid (especially if you choose to play as a good god - way too much micromanagement required). PM has recognized the flaws and BW2 will most likely be amazing. There's a pretty cool video floating around of PM demonstrating some of the new gameplay elements and the screenshots of the new landscape engine are breathtaking.
It's you who doesn't understand. BT does require a centralized tracker, and those DO get /.'ed (especially after the last /. story on BT.)
Ummm.. I'm afraid you completely missed his joke.
Ummm, USPS is NOT a private entity, it is still owned by the government (although it runs pretty independently). There's been talk of spinning it off as a private corporation, but it hasn't happened.
Please provide a link backing up what you're saying. The *only* thing that was ever uploaded to napster was a list of the songs on your machine. When you actually did a file transfer, you sent the file straight to the recipient, or them straight to you.
Ummm... no they didn't. Napster acted as an index. File transfers happened peer-to-peer. Napster was most definitely a p2p application. It was the first big p2p application. It's disturbing that someone with a 5 digit /. UID doesn't know this...
It implies nothing. You said yourself it happens "at least twice". If it's really only 2 or 3 times that's hardly enough times for a rational person to assume that it's more than coincidence.
Ummm... The rest of your ill-thought out diatribe aside, Sony has licensed TiVo's technology and sells a Sony branded TiVo.
I don't know how much stock I'd put in what Manzione says. He's really pissed off right now cause he busted his 17" PowerBook and Apple wouldn't replace it for him. AAC may be crap quality compared to the actual CD, but very few people will claim that 128kbps AAC is worse than 128kbps MP3.
Most people are limited to just a couple streams by their upload cap anyway.