Not to mention that Cisco has a dial-up, DHCP, NAT,wireless Access Point, yadda yadda yadda available. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao340a p/prodlit/bstn_ds.htm
One thing that I haven't seen addressed in this whole debate is that there is also a middle of the road group of people that haven't said anything yet that I am aware of.
What about those people who have modified their cards, but aren't cheating DirecTV out of any revenue? For instance, you have a system and you pay your $50 a month or whatever for service (for channels that you really don't even need/want), but you have to hack the system to get a specific channel that they don't feel like selling in your particular market. Oh, the channel is on the system, but they will not sell it to you. You have paid your money for stuff you dont want in order to make up for the one thing you want, but they will not sell you at any price.
No loss of revene for them, infact it keeps them with a revenue stream that would disappear if the user can't get what they want to subscribe to.
Of course, this whole issue would disappear if they would just sell you the channels you want.
There was an article posted early this year about FMD that is alot closer to being a viable product.
140Gb on a CDROM sized disk today, going to 1.4TB next. Check it out at: http://www.c-3d.net/
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Not to mention that Cisco has a dial-up, DHCP, NAT,wireless Access Point, yadda yadda yadda available. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao340a p/prodlit/bstn_ds.htm
One thing that I haven't seen addressed in this whole debate is that there is also a middle of the road group of people that haven't said anything yet that I am aware of.
What about those people who have modified their cards, but aren't cheating DirecTV out of any revenue? For instance, you have a system and you pay your $50 a month or whatever for service (for channels that you really don't even need/want), but you have to hack the system to get a specific channel that they don't feel like selling in your particular market. Oh, the channel is on the system, but they will not sell it to you. You have paid your money for stuff you dont want in order to make up for the one thing you want, but they will not sell you at any price.
No loss of revene for them, infact it keeps them with a revenue stream that would disappear if the user can't get what they want to subscribe to.
Of course, this whole issue would disappear if they would just sell you the channels you want.
There was an article posted early this year about FMD that is alot closer to being a viable product. 140Gb on a CDROM sized disk today, going to 1.4TB next. Check it out at: http://www.c-3d.net/
Cool. I wonder if there is finally a workable Linux build that I can run on my RS/6000 PowerServer 550H in the basement???
Anyone? Anyone?