You're just wrong. Their privacy policy is documented in the user manuals and on the web. If they change the privacy policy they send you a message on your TiVo. Yes, it's possible to sign up for the service without reading the privacy policy, but that's just dumb. I heard this story on the radio this morning and it was entirely consistent with my understanding of what they said they would do.
TiVo doesn't show ads! (Well, just the ones you've recorded!) I have an early-release 2.0 on a non-hacked machine, and I've never seen a TiVo-forced ad.
ReplayTV did show ads during long pauses, etc., but I think even they quit because it ticked everyone off.
I haven't yet read the other thread you refer to, but as far as I know, no recording space is "stolen" after the upgrade on non-hacked machines. For hacked machines, it was necessary to leave some recording space free to do the upgrade, but I thought that space was released after the install. Factory/unhacked units have some reserved space for things like software upgrades, etc., and that was never counted as program storage space.
Actually, the amount of space available at Basic quality _increases_ after the 2.0 upgrade because of changes in the compression process.
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IBM's coming out with a 1 GB microdrive this fall.
But you probably could do better storage-wise with a notebook PC that has a huge hard drive.
It would be easier to answer if you gave us a ballpark of how much storage you want....
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You're just wrong. Their privacy policy is documented in the user manuals and on the web. If they change the privacy policy they send you a message on your TiVo. Yes, it's possible to sign up for the service without reading the privacy policy, but that's just dumb. I heard this story on the radio this morning and it was entirely consistent with my understanding of what they said they would do.
TiVo doesn't show ads! (Well, just the ones you've recorded!) I have an early-release 2.0 on a non-hacked machine, and I've never seen a TiVo-forced ad. ReplayTV did show ads during long pauses, etc., but I think even they quit because it ticked everyone off. I haven't yet read the other thread you refer to, but as far as I know, no recording space is "stolen" after the upgrade on non-hacked machines. For hacked machines, it was necessary to leave some recording space free to do the upgrade, but I thought that space was released after the install. Factory/unhacked units have some reserved space for things like software upgrades, etc., and that was never counted as program storage space. Actually, the amount of space available at Basic quality _increases_ after the 2.0 upgrade because of changes in the compression process. E
IBM's coming out with a 1 GB microdrive this fall. But you probably could do better storage-wise with a notebook PC that has a huge hard drive. It would be easier to answer if you gave us a ballpark of how much storage you want....