The number of logistical hurdles fans would have to jump over in order to pay for a season of a tv show makes this approach pretty much impossible. If fans really want another season of Enterprise, they should lobby Paramount to release a new seson directly to DVD. Complete season DVDs of television show in general sell very well, even if that show didn't do so well on the air. Obviously the profit margins wouldn't be as high as a complete dvd set of old episodes, but if fans want a viable business model that ties their direct financial support towards the production of new content, this makes more sense. I leave it up to my fellow slashdot members to work the numbers.
What exactly is the legal problem with Commercial Advance? Replay doesn't remove commercials from the recording, it just marks the video with indexes that it later uses to identify commericials. Skipping ahead about 3 minutes (3, QuickSkip) works pretty well too. It would seem to me that if Big Media has a problem with Commercial Advance, they'd have a problem with ALL DVRs.
Replaytv 4000s and up can support dedicated video servers (with the help of programs like DVarchive). You could put terrabytes of storage on the server, service both replaytv and pcs, and implement fault tolerance. Who wants a noisy, hot, electronic device in their living room?
Um, you're missing the point. Yes you can extract mpeg2 data from replaytv, but you can also advertise it via ReplayServer back to the real replaytv 4k, making your computer a video server. That feature, and a nice 1TB array, would make your little tivo upgrade seem quaint by comparison.
Ever since imagine began watering down their online and print publications, they've been less and less relevant. Next Generation Online (before the "Editor's Choice" debacle) took its audience seriously. Daily Radar got into this whole "game geek" lifestyle thing that I feel alienated their core audience. They're doing the same thing to Maximum PC (another hardcore magazine for PC addicts). NextGen remains somewhat respectable, though it's never really been the same since they went with the cheapo covers. It's as if they're ignoring their own demographics. Listen up Imagine: Gamers are getting older, a stat that is almost certain to increase when Xbox comes out. Give us something that respects both our age and intelligence, and we'll shower you with our hard earned gen{x-z} dollars. And sell your print magazine, not popup ads... That is your primary business, right?
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The number of logistical hurdles fans would have to jump over in order to pay for a season of a tv show makes this approach pretty much impossible. If fans really want another season of Enterprise, they should lobby Paramount to release a new seson directly to DVD. Complete season DVDs of television show in general sell very well, even if that show didn't do so well on the air. Obviously the profit margins wouldn't be as high as a complete dvd set of old episodes, but if fans want a viable business model that ties their direct financial support towards the production of new content, this makes more sense. I leave it up to my fellow slashdot members to work the numbers.
I'm tired of multi-platform games catering to the lowest common denominator. I paid money for tha 64megs of money, developers should put it to use.
What exactly is the legal problem with Commercial Advance? Replay doesn't remove commercials from the recording, it just marks the video with indexes that it later uses to identify commericials. Skipping ahead about 3 minutes (3, QuickSkip) works pretty well too. It would seem to me that if Big Media has a problem with Commercial Advance, they'd have a problem with ALL DVRs.
Replaytv 4000s and up can support dedicated video servers (with the help of programs like DVarchive). You could put terrabytes of storage on the server, service both replaytv and pcs, and implement fault tolerance. Who wants a noisy, hot, electronic device in their living room?
Um, you're missing the point. Yes you can extract mpeg2 data from replaytv, but you can also advertise it via ReplayServer back to the real replaytv 4k, making your computer a video server. That feature, and a nice 1TB array, would make your little tivo upgrade seem quaint by comparison.
Still living, but among the best American writers we have. Would be nice to see TLDV in my lifetime though.
Ever since imagine began watering down their online and print publications, they've been less and less relevant. Next Generation Online (before the "Editor's Choice" debacle) took its audience seriously. Daily Radar got into this whole "game geek" lifestyle thing that I feel alienated their core audience. They're doing the same thing to Maximum PC (another hardcore magazine for PC addicts). NextGen remains somewhat respectable, though it's never really been the same since they went with the cheapo covers. It's as if they're ignoring their own demographics. Listen up Imagine: Gamers are getting older, a stat that is almost certain to increase when Xbox comes out. Give us something that respects both our age and intelligence, and we'll shower you with our hard earned gen{x-z} dollars. And sell your print magazine, not popup ads... That is your primary business, right?
Julian Rodriguez