Convenience is nice, but what if Tivo goes belly-up? What happens to the lifetime subscription at that point?
One nice thing about MythTV (or similar projects) is that you completely control the hardware configuration. If you want more hard drive space, you can pretty much add as much as you want. If you want to throw in a DVD burner, you can do it. Faster capture card, more memory, etc., etc. Its definitely a project, but there is an upside.
Kind of makes me wonder when (if) actual physical libraries will just disappear. I can't even imagine myself in a scenario where I have to go to a library to find out something that I can't find out on Google in a short time. How many little questions do you answer each day in seconds on the web, where X number of years ago, the only recourse was to find someone who knows, or to go to the library? It would probably boggle the mind to keep track for a day or week.
Reading a book for leisure is a bit different, but I tend to just buy books that I want to read anyway. I'm 29 and I bet I haven't checked a book out from a library in 7 or 8 years, and I've sure read a hell of a lot in that time (and that includes a major chunk of college...yes, I was there for a while;) .
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Convenience is nice, but what if Tivo goes belly-up? What happens to the lifetime subscription at that point?
One nice thing about MythTV (or similar projects) is that you completely control the hardware configuration. If you want more hard drive space, you can pretty much add as much as you want. If you want to throw in a DVD burner, you can do it. Faster capture card, more memory, etc., etc. Its definitely a project, but there is an upside.
Kind of makes me wonder when (if) actual physical libraries will just disappear. I can't even imagine myself in a scenario where I have to go to a library to find out something that I can't find out on Google in a short time. How many little questions do you answer each day in seconds on the web, where X number of years ago, the only recourse was to find someone who knows, or to go to the library? It would probably boggle the mind to keep track for a day or week.
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Reading a book for leisure is a bit different, but I tend to just buy books that I want to read anyway. I'm 29 and I bet I haven't checked a book out from a library in 7 or 8 years, and I've sure read a hell of a lot in that time (and that includes a major chunk of college...yes, I was there for a while