Anand did a new look at the 8500 with the new ATI drivers. He claims that the image quality is now identical to the Geforce3 and that the driver optimizations work for all Quake3 engine based games. Anandtech article
Unless I am mistaken, with the new firmware that newer Tivo owners are required to have, the device will be substantially less useful than a VCR if the company disappears since owners cannot program the time into the unit themselves (which makes programming the unit to start recording in your absence impossible).
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Anand did a new look at the 8500 with the new ATI drivers. He claims that the image quality is now identical to the Geforce3 and that the driver optimizations work for all Quake3 engine based games. Anandtech article
Unless I am mistaken, with the new firmware that newer Tivo owners are required to have, the device will be substantially less useful than a VCR if the company disappears since owners cannot program the time into the unit themselves (which makes programming the unit to start recording in your absence impossible).
There was a brief bit on NPR about this a few days ago. NPR recording