Well, you're not just paying for the tribune EPG data service there's the element of the fund raising to funnel back funds back into development of OSS projects (in the form of feature bounties/etc)
There's also probably an economy of scale (I'd hope) that if there's a market for this and people find it valuable that as enough people came aboard the price could drop (this is my thining, I have no idea what the official LxMsuite folks are thinking officially)
I'd also hope/think maybe they'd be able to offer listings for other countries at some point if it takes hold.
The main point is that they are providing an alternative you can still use zap2it's free survey driven EPG data or the XMLTV screenscraping utility of your choosing. It is also an interesting proof of concept of a business model of serving the needs of an OSS community directly.
do I think it's at a magic price point? No... do I think there's a real value in offering listing data ala carte to individual consumers? Absolutely. What if (work with me here) you could buy a subscription to alternative Tivo listings, but not from "tivo" and it was cheaper than Tivo?
"Can an HDTV stream be displayed on an SDTV from a myth box via S-Video?"
Yes. It's a little defeatist, but sure it'll work =)
The output via svideo can't be anything but standard defintion. You can display your "desktop" which may be 1024x780 (or what have you) via svideo on your video card but the video card will scale it down standard resolution, interlace it, etc.
Note: you'll still need sufficient horsepower to playback the full HDTV MPEG2 stream, and it'll look good/hdtv-like on your PC monitor, but it'll come out as 480i of your svideo connector.
Which is what you wanted to know, right? My guess is that it'll look marginally better than a regular analog cable encoded source. *shrug*
It seems that user interaction activities like "saving", can run counter to the way people have been trained to use web sites. People don't believe an action took hold if it happened to quickly. The author of the article linked above actually had to slow down and give lots of visual response to indicate the user's data actually saved (or the user would repeatedly click "save" thinking nothing had happened).
It's not a bad thing, it's just an example of some of the new user design challenges AJAX presents at the same time it gives us a new approach to getting near synchronous web-UI response.
actaully, based upon the types of questions I get in the byopvr forums MCE 2005 isn't so easy to setup either unless you have all MCE certifed devices/drivers/etc... or buy it preconfigured (but that's more buy your own pvr as opposed to build)
FWIW besides Windows MCE 2005 the other windows PVR/HTPC solutions don't have any DRM (just mpeg2 goodness)
i.e. the free as in beer gbpvr, the not so free (except for the trial) BeyondTV, SageTV, and Meedio (there's more but i'm tired of typing in URL's already =) )
" This is perhaps a nit-pick, but you don't use rabbit ears for over-the-air HDTV.
Digial broadcasts are on the UHS band. Rabbit ears are for VHS reception.
For my Mac-based HDTV PVR, I use a YAGI roof antenna."
You're kidding right? I meant rabbit ears somewhat euphamistically but that's essentially what they are. You *can* use a regular oldschool UHF/VHF roof antenna, if you like (and it's still installed/wired).
VHS reception, that's a good one. *wipes tears from my eyes*
regardless of platform (windoze/linux) a good htpc/pvr once setup/configured shouldn't need the keyboard & mouse; just a remote control.
It functions like a TiVo on steroids, except it's a PC (or a Mac).
Almost everything should be taken care of via the frontend, and for everything else (occassional admin type stuff) there's SSH, VNC, etc over your network.
"I find it interesting that very few of these articles attempt to cover HDTV or digital TV. There is more than one DTV card supported in Linux and an article containing this would prove much more valuable that just the "here's how to setup a box with a PVR-250/350" story that I seem to see everywhere."
Even though it's HDTV, the DTV cards aren't that sexy because they involved using rabbit ears and getting broadcast HDTV only. (so no DiscoveryHD or HBO HD)... it's dissapointing (unless you live in an area densely populated with DTV broadcasts, then I guess it's pretty cool).
Before I get the nastygram replies: On some cable company boxes (depending on whether the HD channels you want are QAM "in the clear" you can get HDTV that way via HDTV card.
There's also firewire transport from digital cable box, which I believe the latest mythtv release has some support for (but again I believe it depends on the roll of the dice on your cable providers settings)
Sometimes you buy a small startup in order to aquire the talent aquired within it. The purchasing of the company is kinda like a "signing bonus" for coming to work for the purchasing company.
Dodgeball also has other products/ideas if i'm not mistaken, something to do with bar mp3 jukeboxes and uploading custom/personal mp3/playlists or something. All their ideas center around social gatherings and drinking though, maybe google just wanted to add some life to their parties=P
Dodgeball is a simple, yet really cool idea, if you're a young urban professional in metropolitan area with lots of dense nightlife/hotspots.
It's not just about finding where your friends are, you can ask dodgeball all sorts of cool geospatial questions i.e. I'm here at this bar, what bar is closest to me that has a pacman machine or a pool table or 50 cent wings?
Hey look, hot nancy from accounting is there... lets go up the block and check it out.
It's not just a friend inventory system, see?
In any case, when I saw their presentation 2 years ago at o'reilly E-tech I was like "dammit! i wish I thought of that" now I'm all like "son of a! gawd dammit! I wish I thought of that!"
Actually, according to a post in his english forum, he's put in/replaced cards before with no ill-effect (supposedly). he's even removed a ram stick and put it in a non-submerged PC (although that's less of a feat)
"I guess he uses it for an hour, then the oil becomes the same temp as the cpu.. and then shuts it off? Since he says that the forum isn't in english, I didn't bother to check."
Apparently it's been running for a year or so to date... (supposedly)
I for one welcome our yellow dog linux installing overlords...
Are you pissing on it because you don't think it's worthy of/. post?
*shrug* I think it's a pretty cool project, but i'm mostly interested to see the next step unfold (the whole multimedia/HTPPC part ). Maybe THEN it will be more clear (besides the author's desire to use OSS as a project goal) why he went in the direction he did.
i.e. is he planning on just using it as a client to a MythTV Backend or is he going to hook up a Plextor USB ConvertX PVR to it? (which has linux and Mac drivers)
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88 years? Is that a typo in the article?
I thought the Sith were in hiding mode for over a thousand years?
Not that I've come to expect continuity from lucas or the star wars universe or anything =)
I guess he'll have more edits in the I, II, III special edition trilogy box set re-re-re-release.
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Someday I hope to be a D-minus blogebrity
I dare to dream! =)
Well, you're not just paying for the tribune EPG data service there's the element of the fund raising to funnel back funds back into development of OSS projects (in the form of feature bounties/etc)
There's also probably an economy of scale (I'd hope) that if there's a market for this and people find it valuable that as enough people came aboard the price could drop (this is my thining, I have no idea what the official LxMsuite folks are thinking officially)
I'd also hope/think maybe they'd be able to offer listings for other countries at some point if it takes hold.
The main point is that they are providing an alternative you can still use zap2it's free survey driven EPG data or the XMLTV screenscraping utility of your choosing. It is also an interesting proof of concept of a business model of serving the needs of an OSS community directly.
do I think it's at a magic price point? No... do I think there's a real value in offering listing data ala carte to individual consumers? Absolutely. What if (work with me here) you could buy a subscription to alternative Tivo listings, but not from "tivo" and it was cheaper than Tivo?
e.
"Can an HDTV stream be displayed on an SDTV from a myth box via S-Video?"
Yes. It's a little defeatist, but sure it'll work =)
The output via svideo can't be anything but standard defintion. You can display your "desktop" which may be 1024x780 (or what have you) via svideo on your video card but the video card will scale it down standard resolution, interlace it, etc.
Note: you'll still need sufficient horsepower to playback the full HDTV MPEG2 stream, and it'll look good/hdtv-like on your PC monitor, but it'll come out as 480i of your svideo connector.
Which is what you wanted to know, right? My guess is that it'll look marginally better than a regular analog cable encoded source. *shrug*
hope that helps and good luck with your project!
rampy
this a pretty neat article about some things to keep in mind when designing a UI with AJAX
It seems that user interaction activities like "saving", can run counter to the way people have been trained to use web sites. People don't believe an action took hold if it happened to quickly. The author of the article linked above actually had to slow down and give lots of visual response to indicate the user's data actually saved (or the user would repeatedly click "save" thinking nothing had happened).
It's not a bad thing, it's just an example of some of the new user design challenges AJAX presents at the same time it gives us a new approach to getting near synchronous web-UI response.
And just for giggles get your AJAX pixel fight on
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the computer is a pathway to many abilities that some would consider unnatural
There seems to be a lot of crime at:
1060 West Addison Chicago, IL
=P
I call it "the dusty baker effect"
e.
UberCade: Taito Arcade Cabinet MAME conversion
BTW, you linked to byoac... but did you some how miss the 900+ projects in the byoac project example pages?
Nobody cares that much about the falling US dollar, until they need more and more of them to buy a playstation...
That's where I draw the line. Get Greenspan on the phone!
=P
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I sure hope it comes with the "Mr. Roboto" font and the "come sail away" font.
"The title is shaping up to be an absolute stonker according to PCGamer."
Is that like a stinker with an "o" it? like it stinks but the graphicss make you go "oh" i.e. "stonker"?
*shrug*
e.
actaully, based upon the types of questions I get in the byopvr forums MCE 2005 isn't so easy to setup either unless you have all MCE certifed devices/drivers/etc... or buy it preconfigured (but that's more buy your own pvr as opposed to build)
*shrug* just to show a different side of it.
FWIW besides Windows MCE 2005 the other windows PVR/HTPC solutions don't have any DRM (just mpeg2 goodness)
i.e. the free as in beer gbpvr, the not so free (except for the trial) BeyondTV, SageTV, and Meedio (there's more but i'm tired of typing in URL's already =) )
e.
I'm pretty sure we are just talking semantics.
You can use a UHF/VHF indoor antenna which I'm referring to as rabitt ears (even if they don't look like rabbit ears anymore).
I'm glad you have a yogi living on your roof that tunes Broadcast DTV for you. =P
" This is perhaps a nit-pick, but you don't use rabbit ears for over-the-air HDTV.
Digial broadcasts are on the UHS band. Rabbit ears are for VHS reception.
For my Mac-based HDTV PVR, I use a YAGI roof antenna."
You're kidding right? I meant rabbit ears somewhat euphamistically but that's essentially what they are. You *can* use a regular oldschool UHF/VHF roof antenna, if you like (and it's still installed/wired).
VHS reception, that's a good one. *wipes tears from my eyes*
e.
regardless of platform (windoze/linux) a good htpc/pvr once setup/configured shouldn't need the keyboard & mouse; just a remote control.
It functions like a TiVo on steroids, except it's a PC (or a Mac).
Almost everything should be taken care of via the frontend, and for everything else (occassional admin type stuff) there's SSH, VNC, etc over your network.
*shrug*
there's also plutohome although it has much different goals (imho) than that of knoppmyth. I guess it depends on what you are looking for.
"I find it interesting that very few of these articles attempt to cover HDTV or digital TV. There is more than one DTV card supported in Linux and an article containing this would prove much more valuable that just the "here's how to setup a box with a PVR-250/350" story that I seem to see everywhere."
Even though it's HDTV, the DTV cards aren't that sexy because they involved using rabbit ears and getting broadcast HDTV only. (so no DiscoveryHD or HBO HD)... it's dissapointing (unless you live in an area densely populated with DTV broadcasts, then I guess it's pretty cool).
Before I get the nastygram replies:
On some cable company boxes (depending on whether the HD channels you want are QAM "in the clear" you can get HDTV that way via HDTV card.
There's also firewire transport from digital cable box, which I believe the latest mythtv release has some support for (but again I believe it depends on the roll of the dice on your cable providers settings)
e.
Sometimes you buy a small startup in order to aquire the talent aquired within it. The purchasing of the company is kinda like a "signing bonus" for coming to work for the purchasing company.
Dodgeball also has other products/ideas if i'm not mistaken, something to do with bar mp3 jukeboxes and uploading custom/personal mp3/playlists or something. All their ideas center around social gatherings and drinking though, maybe google just wanted to add some life to their parties=P
Dodgeball is a simple, yet really cool idea, if you're a young urban professional in metropolitan area with lots of dense nightlife/hotspots.
It's not just about finding where your friends are, you can ask dodgeball all sorts of cool geospatial questions i.e. I'm here at this bar, what bar is closest to me that has a pacman machine or a pool table or 50 cent wings?
Hey look, hot nancy from accounting is there... lets go up the block and check it out.
It's not just a friend inventory system, see?
In any case, when I saw their presentation 2 years ago at o'reilly E-tech I was like "dammit! i wish I thought of that" now I'm all like "son of a! gawd dammit! I wish I thought of that!"
e.
btw, I know "oozing goo" sounds like a dirty site, larf. It isn't honest! it's about DIY lava lamps!
he should make that sucker into a lava lamp
it would show/highlight the oil currents/flow by the fans (that are still turning, BTW)
whoah
"wagter connducts oil doesnt
so it sucks if you want to use the unused slots
at a later date"
Actually, according to a post in his english forum, he's put in/replaced cards before with no ill-effect (supposedly). he's even removed a ram stick and put it in a non-submerged PC (although that's less of a feat)
*shrug*
rampy
"I guess he uses it for an hour, then the oil becomes the same temp as the cpu.. and then shuts it off? Since he says that the forum isn't in english, I didn't bother to check."
Apparently it's been running for a year or so to date... (supposedly)
e.
it's regular old cooking oil!
I for one welcome our yellow dog linux installing overlords...
/. post?
Are you pissing on it because you don't think it's worthy of
*shrug* I think it's a pretty cool project, but i'm mostly interested to see the next step unfold (the whole multimedia/HTPPC part ). Maybe THEN it will be more clear (besides the author's desire to use OSS as a project goal) why he went in the direction he did.
i.e. is he planning on just using it as a client to a MythTV Backend or is he going to hook up a Plextor USB ConvertX PVR to it? (which has linux and Mac drivers)
e.