Thank you! I was looking over the comments people have posted about the other CDs on that list, and of course, realized that most people probably have never even heard of G3, the tour. The G3 show w/ Petrucci was an incredible show -- Everyone who saw the G3 show w/ Petrucci should get his solo disc Suspended Animation right away (indy label).
Well, lets look at it like this. There are places in the country where they are trying to teach creationism is high school biology classes. It would be absolutely necessary in a biotech for someone to have a college degree to work there, just to get the equiv of a high school degree. Imagine going to work on medical reseach, in any capacity, believing that humans are not decendent from apes.
And this system is, of course, hooked up to the TV in their TV viewing room, and using this TV for stuff like web surfing, email, word processing, on a 800x600 screen is easy.
Yes, most people have a system capable of handling this, but it isn't located in a good place, meaning that they need another system to handle this.
Ok, makes my arguement even easier, in that case. Without honoring this, no Tivo. For that matter, how is it possible that a Windows Media Center recorder wouldn't support this (or does it already, I've never looked at one).
If this is the case, then, theoretically, someone could also declare that somethign like MythTV is illegal if it uses MPEG-2.
Do you honestly believe that any software will be able to access the output from these cablecard compatible cards without supporting content protection?
Then again, if you believe that, you probably also believe that Tivo added content protection because they wanted to (rather than being forced to because they want to keep their Macrovision license).
Ok, I'd love to see one of this 'must watch commercials' that supposedly exist. Ever see one (own a Tivo, even?) or are you just reposting the trash that ends up in other users comments. There has never been a commercial that you are 'forced' to watch. There are overlays that can appear over a commercial where you can -!!-!!BY REQUEST!!-!!- get more info on, but nothing ever to force you to watch a commercial.
Because, if you actually followed some of the links here (I know, asking too much already), you will see that it is because Tivo (the company) would like to keep Tivo (the hardware) being able to operate. If Tivo want's to keep its Macrovision license (in other words, if Tivo wants the unit to be functional), they had to add this 'feature'.
The fact that the flag was picked up is a bug in how Tivo is handling a noisy over-the-air analog signal. The signal source here was coming from a noisy antenna that trigged the signal. It is only supposed to be for 'premium' content.
You can currently transfer to a PC (well, you can technically transfer to anything, as the transfer to PC is just via http). I don't know that the codecs are available for mac/linux (they very well could be, I just use pc and it works).
I wonder how many people will buy Apple hardware to run Windows (1%, 10%?).
I actually think it would be much higher, if you consider people wanting to dual-boot. I personally have been interested in getting an OS-X box, but can't really leave Windows behind. I see many people dual booting their machines. Look at how many Linux people keep their machines dual-booted for games, or [insert use here]. Now look at how many people don't use linux because its "too hard to use". Now, look at how many people would like to have a stable user-friendly Unix box, but need windows for something.
Maybe, just maybe, because they don't want this to turn into a target? Maybe because they don't want it to be used for theft/copyright infringement/whatever the 'pc' name for stealing other people's creation is. Its just like Bittorrent. Bittorrent was never made to be used for this purpose, making it an 'easy' target for the RIAA (the torrent trackers) while still having legitimate uses (linux distribution).
That'd be fine...if we ALLOWED customers to choose their cable company. As it is, customers are assigned to particular cable companies based on their location. The only choice that the customer has is cable or no cable.
That is not completly true. Your location determins this. First, there is competitors such a DirecTV and other satallite companies. More importantly, there are also areas w/ competing cable companies. Most of the Boston area has a choice between Comcast and RCN for cable (and cable modem and phone service). I beleive I have seen signs advertising RCN in NYC as well.
I am assuming he wants his TiVo to work just as the DirecTivo units work. Single box, containing multiple tuners that can record the digital signal directly, w/o the use of a cable box and either serial control or IR blaster. (At least, thats what I want from my TiVo/Comcast digital cable).
Its a ban from cables boxes that are not CableCard (or whatever they want to call it) enabled. It (essentially) means that instead of the cable box "decrypting" the signal AND being a tuner, it must have a seperate entity that is responsible for each of those functions. This means that other standard equiment can handle the "tuner" portion. The "decrypting" part is plugged into the tuner, just as the "decrypting" part would be plugged into a TiVo, HDTV or other standard item.
Finally, embedded programming on a cable box is worlds cruftier and more limiting than the Linux underpinnings of the current Tivo architecture. It's virtually certain that some features just won't be portable to this new box.
"This long-term, non-exclusive partnership will provide millions of Comcast customers with the opportunity to choose the TiVo service, including TiVo's award-winning user interface and features like Season Pass(TM) and WishList(TM), as an additional option. In addition, the service will showcase TiVo's home networking, multimedia, and broadband capabilities."
Sounds to me like they are adding most functionality. I didn't follow to much of the Wiki's links, but is is possible that the Comcast box even runs linux (or some other OS) rather than just being "embedded"?
I don't think that the speed for transfers for Tivo2Go has to do with the USB1.1 interface speed. Transfers using T2G are much slower than transfering the exact same program from 1 Tivo to another Tivo.
It might have something to do with the fact that in TivoTivo transfers, it is transfering the video in 'native' format. It probalby has to do some encoding (maybe combine audio/video stream) to transfer Tivo->PC.
You do what tell you when you submit. Make photocopies of everything you send them. If they claim you didn't send something in, call their (India) call center (the number will be on the docs you copied), get their fax number, and pray to the fax gods (a chicken sacrifice is sometimes necessary) that their fax machine actually works (which, amazingly, does 90% of the time). Its a pain, but thats your recourse.
I do agree, though, that it is a pain. Bordering slightly on fraud, based on the fact that they don't keep within their time frame promised.
So why is it that they can almost never get the check out in the 6-10 week time that they promise? I normally track everythign in my Palm to see when the rebates are due, and I would say that >80% of the time, they are well past the 6-10 week time they promise.
Right now, I am currently waiting on 3 rebates, 2 were due this week, and they still have not sent a check from their own trackign site, and the other one was due in December 2004, they claimed they never received anything, I faxed them the required crap, their India call center claimed to have received it, a month later, they claimed to never have received anything, only for me to have to call, yell at a supervisor to get anything, and now it enters another 6 week waiting period to cut the check?
I was actually shocked that this year, I got my Symantec and Intuit rebates inside of the waiting period, a first for both of those vendors after 4+ years of them being late.
Oh, hands up. Who carries their iPod USB/Firewire cable with them, along with their iPod? I don't, unless I'm carrying it in my laptop bag, which also contains bootable CDs and a USB flash drive.
To me, I would rather boot from a USB key drive. Much smaller than the iPod cable.
crippled like the TiVo, i.e. I can still fast forward through the comercials.
Huh? Who ever said you can't fast forward through commercials with anythign from Tivo? I can easily fast forward (rewind, or whatever) using Tivo, and TivoToGo.
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Thank you! I was looking over the comments people have posted about the other CDs on that list, and of course, realized that most people probably have never even heard of G3, the tour. The G3 show w/ Petrucci was an incredible show -- Everyone who saw the G3 show w/ Petrucci should get his solo disc Suspended Animation right away (indy label).
Well, lets look at it like this. There are places in the country where they are trying to teach creationism is high school biology classes. It would be absolutely necessary in a biotech for someone to have a college degree to work there, just to get the equiv of a high school degree. Imagine going to work on medical reseach, in any capacity, believing that humans are not decendent from apes.
I realize that it doesn't support your iPaq, but Tivo does support transfering to Portable Media Center boxes.
And this system is, of course, hooked up to the TV in their TV viewing room, and using this TV for stuff like web surfing, email, word processing, on a 800x600 screen is easy.
Yes, most people have a system capable of handling this, but it isn't located in a good place, meaning that they need another system to handle this.
Ok, makes my arguement even easier, in that case. Without honoring this, no Tivo. For that matter, how is it possible that a Windows Media Center recorder wouldn't support this (or does it already, I've never looked at one).
If this is the case, then, theoretically, someone could also declare that somethign like MythTV is illegal if it uses MPEG-2.
Do you honestly believe that any software will be able to access the output from these cablecard compatible cards without supporting content protection?
Then again, if you believe that, you probably also believe that Tivo added content protection because they wanted to (rather than being forced to because they want to keep their Macrovision license).
Ok, I'd love to see one of this 'must watch commercials' that supposedly exist. Ever see one (own a Tivo, even?) or are you just reposting the trash that ends up in other users comments. There has never been a commercial that you are 'forced' to watch. There are overlays that can appear over a commercial where you can -!!-!!BY REQUEST!!-!!- get more info on, but nothing ever to force you to watch a commercial.
Your or statemnet is probably closer. They want to do things such as T2G, or DVD burning.
For DVD stuff, Tivo need a CSS license (no, Tivo can't use DeCSS). For a CSS license, they needed Macrovision. For Macrovision, they needed this.
Guess what Tivo needed to do to get T2G functionality?
Because, if you actually followed some of the links here (I know, asking too much already), you will see that it is because Tivo (the company) would like to keep Tivo (the hardware) being able to operate. If Tivo want's to keep its Macrovision license (in other words, if Tivo wants the unit to be functional), they had to add this 'feature'.
The fact that the flag was picked up is a bug in how Tivo is handling a noisy over-the-air analog signal. The signal source here was coming from a noisy antenna that trigged the signal. It is only supposed to be for 'premium' content.
You can currently transfer to a PC (well, you can technically transfer to anything, as the transfer to PC is just via http). I don't know that the codecs are available for mac/linux (they very well could be, I just use pc and it works).
I wonder how many people will buy Apple hardware to run Windows (1%, 10%?).
I actually think it would be much higher, if you consider people wanting to dual-boot. I personally have been interested in getting an OS-X box, but can't really leave Windows behind. I see many people dual booting their machines. Look at how many Linux people keep their machines dual-booted for games, or [insert use here]. Now look at how many people don't use linux because its "too hard to use". Now, look at how many people would like to have a stable user-friendly Unix box, but need windows for something.
Maybe, just maybe, because they don't want this to turn into a target? Maybe because they don't want it to be used for theft/copyright infringement/whatever the 'pc' name for stealing other people's creation is. Its just like Bittorrent. Bittorrent was never made to be used for this purpose, making it an 'easy' target for the RIAA (the torrent trackers) while still having legitimate uses (linux distribution).
As I said above, this all depends on your location. We have competing cable providers (Comcast and RCN) in the Boston area.
That is not completly true. Your location determins this. First, there is competitors such a DirecTV and other satallite companies. More importantly, there are also areas w/ competing cable companies. Most of the Boston area has a choice between Comcast and RCN for cable (and cable modem and phone service). I beleive I have seen signs advertising RCN in NYC as well.
Yeah. That's pretty much what I implied, but not stated.
I am assuming he wants his TiVo to work just as the DirecTivo units work. Single box, containing multiple tuners that can record the digital signal directly, w/o the use of a cable box and either serial control or IR blaster. (At least, thats what I want from my TiVo/Comcast digital cable).
Its a ban from cables boxes that are not CableCard (or whatever they want to call it) enabled. It (essentially) means that instead of the cable box "decrypting" the signal AND being a tuner, it must have a seperate entity that is responsible for each of those functions. This means that other standard equiment can handle the "tuner" portion. The "decrypting" part is plugged into the tuner, just as the "decrypting" part would be plugged into a TiVo, HDTV or other standard item.
Finally, embedded programming on a cable box is worlds cruftier and more limiting than the Linux underpinnings of the current Tivo architecture. It's virtually certain that some features just won't be portable to this new box.
From Tivo's press release
"This long-term, non-exclusive partnership will provide millions of Comcast customers with the opportunity to choose the TiVo service, including TiVo's award-winning user interface and features like Season Pass(TM) and WishList(TM), as an additional option. In addition, the service will showcase TiVo's home networking, multimedia, and broadband capabilities."
Sounds to me like they are adding most functionality. I didn't follow to much of the Wiki's links, but is is possible that the Comcast box even runs linux (or some other OS) rather than just being "embedded"?
I don't think that the speed for transfers for Tivo2Go has to do with the USB1.1 interface speed. Transfers using T2G are much slower than transfering the exact same program from 1 Tivo to another Tivo.
It might have something to do with the fact that in TivoTivo transfers, it is transfering the video in 'native' format. It probalby has to do some encoding (maybe combine audio/video stream) to transfer Tivo->PC.
You do what tell you when you submit. Make photocopies of everything you send them. If they claim you didn't send something in, call their (India) call center (the number will be on the docs you copied), get their fax number, and pray to the fax gods (a chicken sacrifice is sometimes necessary) that their fax machine actually works (which, amazingly, does 90% of the time). Its a pain, but thats your recourse.
I do agree, though, that it is a pain. Bordering slightly on fraud, based on the fact that they don't keep within their time frame promised.
So why is it that they can almost never get the check out in the 6-10 week time that they promise? I normally track everythign in my Palm to see when the rebates are due, and I would say that >80% of the time, they are well past the 6-10 week time they promise.
Right now, I am currently waiting on 3 rebates, 2 were due this week, and they still have not sent a check from their own trackign site, and the other one was due in December 2004, they claimed they never received anything, I faxed them the required crap, their India call center claimed to have received it, a month later, they claimed to never have received anything, only for me to have to call, yell at a supervisor to get anything, and now it enters another 6 week waiting period to cut the check?
I was actually shocked that this year, I got my Symantec and Intuit rebates inside of the waiting period, a first for both of those vendors after 4+ years of them being late.
Oh, hands up. Who carries their iPod USB/Firewire cable with them, along with their iPod? I don't, unless I'm carrying it in my laptop bag, which also contains bootable CDs and a USB flash drive.
To me, I would rather boot from a USB key drive. Much smaller than the iPod cable.
crippled like the TiVo, i.e. I can still fast forward through the comercials.
Huh? Who ever said you can't fast forward through commercials with anythign from Tivo? I can easily fast forward (rewind, or whatever) using Tivo, and TivoToGo.
I'm sorry, but what about W? Anyone who voted for Bush obviously supports... well... "don't tax and spend (and spend and spend and spend)"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/28/downloads_ price_rises