Re:What does TiVo do to commercials?
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Sure, you just start watching shows late and then you can skip over them until you catch up to live TV.
While it doesn't auto-skip, the 3-speed search function has a "back jump" that goes back a few seconds when you return to 1x. Once you get used to the buffer you can get through a block of commercials in 10 seconds.
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Sorry friend. A computer combined with an ATI All-In-Wonder isn't even comparable with the TiVo. It could, perhaps, given killer software, but there is no comparison today. TiVo manages to pack an incredible amount of power in a box that (gasp) my parents figured out with minutes of training, and causes no undue "family" tech support calls.
Scenario 1: Phone rings, pick up remote, hit pause. Talk on phone for 10 minutes. Resume watching in the same place, only now you can zip though the commercials until you catch up with live TV.
Scenario 2: Pick some guilty pleasure like "ER". Select in guide, select menu, select "get a season pass". Next thursday, get stuck at work until 8:00. Enjoy no traffic commute home and enter door at 8:20. Use John, grab beer, sit on couch, grab 1 remote, hit 3 buttons and begin watching it from the start -- screwing over the advertisers again.
Scenario 3: Simply type the number of the channel you want.. TiVo can seamlessly blend cable boxes and sattelite dishes, so 05 gets me NBC on cable, and 975 gives me NBC on DSS..
TiVo has changed television to me forever. It is rare something can come along that does that.
Ok, this is cool, but now how about a guide called "how to convince your work to let you put an antenna on the roof" so I can tap into our 8 T1s instead of paying $100 a month for lousy DSL service?!? Hmm, I wonder if it would work through a window..
I have never been a big fan of the Mac, primarily because the UI (and the one button mouse) drive me batty.
That said, this seems like an idea with lot of potential if implemented well. For one thing, squeezing seems like a much more intuitive way to implement drag-and-drop - vs. having to know where the right place to click & hold in that particular UI is.
Even better, imagine being able to trace Palm graffiti-like characters right on the mouse - just draw a line with your finger to the left or right to go forward back in your browser, trace a "?" for help, custom symbols for selecting weapon in Quake, launching favorite apps, etc.
If it ends up being another hockey puck, but now with invisible buttons, then it is time to put Apple out to pasture.
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Sure, you just start watching shows late and then you can skip over them until you catch up to live TV.
While it doesn't auto-skip, the 3-speed search function has a "back jump" that goes back a few seconds when you return to 1x. Once you get used to the buffer you can get through a block of commercials in 10 seconds.
Sorry friend. A computer combined with an ATI All-In-Wonder isn't even comparable with the TiVo. It could, perhaps, given killer software, but there is no comparison today. TiVo manages to pack an incredible amount of power in a box that (gasp) my parents figured out with minutes of training, and causes no undue "family" tech support calls.
Scenario 1: Phone rings, pick up remote, hit pause. Talk on phone for 10 minutes. Resume watching in the same place, only now you can zip though the commercials until you catch up with live TV.
Scenario 2: Pick some guilty pleasure like "ER". Select in guide, select menu, select "get a season pass". Next thursday, get stuck at work until 8:00. Enjoy no traffic commute home and enter door at 8:20. Use John, grab beer, sit on couch, grab 1 remote, hit 3 buttons and begin watching it from the start -- screwing over the advertisers again.
Scenario 3: Simply type the number of the channel you want.. TiVo can seamlessly blend cable boxes and sattelite dishes, so 05 gets me NBC on cable, and 975 gives me NBC on DSS..
TiVo has changed television to me forever. It is rare something can come along that does that.
Ok, this is cool, but now how about a guide called "how to convince your work to let you put an antenna on the roof" so I can tap into our 8 T1s instead of paying $100 a month for lousy DSL service?!? Hmm, I wonder if it would work through a window..
I have never been a big fan of the Mac, primarily because the UI (and the one button mouse) drive me batty.
That said, this seems like an idea with lot of potential if implemented well. For one thing, squeezing seems like a much more intuitive way to implement drag-and-drop - vs. having to know where the right place to click & hold in that particular UI is.
Even better, imagine being able to trace Palm graffiti-like characters right on the mouse - just draw a line with your finger to the left or right to go forward back in your browser, trace a "?" for help, custom symbols for selecting weapon in Quake, launching favorite apps, etc.
If it ends up being another hockey puck, but now with invisible buttons, then it is time to put Apple out to pasture.