I was lucky enough to get on the tivo 3.0 beta program and received the update about a week ago. Here is what I noticed.
1) For the most part the user interface is the same. The update seems to have focused on improvements to the core app. For example the now playing list draws much faster.
2) It records many more shows from the suggestions list which is good. I bumped my tivo up to 100+ hours a while back and it used to record only 3-4 unscheduled shows a day. Now it graps something like 10 and really makes use of all that space.
3) TivoNet warning: it will overwrite all of your setup files if you installed a network card. Looks like its time to open the box again.:(
Here is what Tivo has to say about the update.
Improvements to TiVo's Suggestions
TiVo's Suggestions has gotten even better at finding programs you might enjoy. If your TiVo automatically records TiVo's Suggestions, you may notice improvements soon.
If you have chosen not to automatically record TiVo's Suggestions, this is a good time to try them again. You can automatically record TiVo's Suggestions again by going to TiVo Central > My Preferences > TiVo's Suggestions.
Even if you don't automatically record TiVo's Suggestions, you can always browse through them (and set up your own recordings) by going to TiVo Central > Pick Programs to Record > TiVo's Suggestions
Improved Data Downloads
Your TiVo can now record TiVo Service data from specially broadcast programs. It receives these programs automatically and will never cancel or delete your shows to get them. This means shorter Daily Calls. If you do not have cable as your program source, TiVo will use the phone line as always.
The special programs will be recorded about once a week, usually between 2am and 5am. If you watch TV at these times, the TiVo Service may ask to change the channel to receive a special program. While the TiVo Service will work if the special programs do not record, it's a good idea to allow such channel changes whenever you can.
Record All Episodes with Duplicates
Season Passes will not record a program if the program's description is long enough and matches the description of another program recorded within 28 days. This is called the "28 day rule" and is used to avoid duplicate recordings.
However, you may want to record shows with identical descriptions. You might want to do this if your child expects a certain program to be recorded every week, or if a program is pre-empted (e.g., for news or a ballgame in overtime) and the broadcaster airs the same program a week later.
You can now turn off the 28 day rule and record duplicate episodes by selecting a new recording option, "Show Type: All (with duplicates)." Just go to TiVo Central > Pick Programs to Record > Season Pass Manager. Select the Season Pass, then select "Change Recording Options." Change "Show Type" to "All (with duplicates)."
Everyone can rant until they are blue in the face that this law is the most illegal item possible. Sure it outlaws basic scientific expression, etc. but that in itself will not stop this legislation.
Think back about 70 years. They made alcohol illegal. I'm not a huge drinker, but seriously think about it. Drinking whatever you want to is a fundamental right, but that did not stop them and an insane unpopular law was passed.
Now what happened, the people who understood how to make and distribute liquor became downright rich. Bootleggers had a massive public which did not believe the law was legal in its own right and because of this had no issues purchasing illegal items at a high price.
We all know that whatever closed system schemes are used, they will be fairly easy to bypass. That combined with a large unhappy public is a rather large market. I don't know about you but if this is slammed through the tech industry, I'm going to quit my day job and sell "open systems" at a nice little profit.
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There are just too many reasons why no matter what congress does or what bush signs into law will matter.
Full copy protected hardware/software is technically impossible. We all know this, a program has to copy memory around, who is to say if this is copyrighted or not. The only pratical solution is to make it illegal for the general public to write software. What are the chances of that sticking.
The reason the public hasn't cared about the DMCA, etc. yet is that the DMCA has not really effected them yet. If this passes, their TVs will be illegal, their VCRs will be illegal, their computers will be illegal, they will not be able to save emails without permission, just wait till RIAA's cental server goes down and NASDAQ can't process stock transactions.,I>Once the effects of this are seen in society, the courts will over turn laws such at these.
And most important, the very large tech companies will be forced to either fight this or shut down most of their operations. I work for IBM Microelectronics (I don't represent IBM opinion at all) and I don't see how we could design chips and under this law.
So let them go ahead and pass it, personally I think the fallout will be fun to watch.
This "technology" will take the same path as that professor from Princeton University who claimed he developed a proveably secure method of public encryption. Remember the one that showed up in the Wall Street Journal and NY Times. Where you use a known source (in his case a satelight) which constantly sends out private encryption keys. To transfer data you just agree on a time to select the key, both the encoder and decoder grap it, and then the data is encrypted with that key. The idea was that the private encyption key is never transmitted and a hacker wouldn't know which of the trillions of keys out there to use.
What? You don't remember this? Oh, thats because it is worst than traditional public key encryption schemes. 1) Its security through obscurity, you need a method to transfer the time to grab the private key out of all of the possible ones. 2) Whats worse is now for regular private key encryption to transfer the data, instead of having the entire key length as possible combinations, now there are only the ones transmitted by the common source. (No matter how many they are it will always be much less than 2^128)
We all know this compression method will follow a similar path.
I had a variety of services running from my personal PC including MP3 servers, ect. running for several years now. For a while at least one drive would fail every year. (Thanks Western Digital) So a long time ago I realized I needed a full backup system that could handle over 10G about five years ago and several times that today. The solution was a full HD mirroring with some extra backup copies.
Every drive has an identical one not being used but connected and powered on. About once a week (usually after a weekly reboot) all of the primary drives would have their image copied over to their mirror. This would simply handle all OSes and file systems (Windows and Linux). In addition every few hours a job would copy some improtant data that changed on a daily basis, mostly just mail files.
This method didn't provide a perfect solution but if I ever took a hammer to a drive and took it down, all you have to do is power off, switch some jumper pins and reboot. In 3 mins. I would be back to where I was a few days ago. Then some quick extra copying would get back the extra incremental stuff, like mail.
What I loved about this was if I ever messed up an install, there was always an image of a good system from a few days ago plus the other important data. More than one a program like NetZero or something would trash my Win95 box. But this would give me a quick go back. It is a little more work than doing Raid mirroring, but also allows you go "go back in time".
This doesn't seem to work for everyone but has saved me more than once. Just my two cents
Actually people should realize that there are a lot of us who have just be effectivly kicked out of the game. This upgrade did not work for either of the video cards in both of my machines. (Well they work but the graphics have enough bugs to make it unplayable) And they are Rage Pro's, not very new but still decent. Everquest seems to not care that lots of people meet the hardware requirements for the older versions and have been paying good money for some time. I know this is ranting but I'm sort of ticked off with thier 'support' right now.
So this would be a cube flying overhead with about 10 to 15 mins of useful time before it passes out of range. And they have no plans for working out some sort of handoff to the next cube passing by. Something tells me that this might be one of the most difficult networks from a commercial user standpoint.
It seems to me that someone can't let the Mac vs. PC war end.
OK lets look at this realistically. In order to properly enforce some sort of HD copyright protection, they would need to use some form of public-key encryption scheme. So the HD would have to check with a third party every time it wanted to do something or for that matter anything. This would also mean that no HD could function without a net connection. Somehow I don't see this taking hold.
Of course the method they are proposing is crack able. Everything you would need to do so is sitting on the HD. So even if they force this through and force all HD manufactures to comply (which isn't happening), we'll all still get around it. Somehow I think the Linux community will manage.
Remember, if I just hear it or saw it, I just copied it.
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1) For the most part the user interface is the same. The update seems to have focused on improvements to the core app. For example the now playing list draws much faster.
2) It records many more shows from the suggestions list which is good. I bumped my tivo up to 100+ hours a while back and it used to record only 3-4 unscheduled shows a day. Now it graps something like 10 and really makes use of all that space.
3) TivoNet warning: it will overwrite all of your setup files if you installed a network card. Looks like its time to open the box again. :(
Here is what Tivo has to say about the update.
Improvements to TiVo's Suggestions
TiVo's Suggestions has gotten even better at finding programs you might enjoy. If your TiVo automatically records TiVo's Suggestions, you may notice improvements soon.
If you have chosen not to automatically record TiVo's Suggestions, this is a good time to try them again. You can automatically record TiVo's Suggestions again by going to TiVo Central > My Preferences > TiVo's Suggestions.
Even if you don't automatically record TiVo's Suggestions, you can always browse through them (and set up your own recordings) by going to TiVo Central > Pick Programs to Record > TiVo's Suggestions
Improved Data Downloads
Your TiVo can now record TiVo Service data from specially broadcast programs. It receives these programs automatically and will never cancel or delete your shows to get them. This means shorter Daily Calls. If you do not have cable as your program source, TiVo will use the phone line as always.
The special programs will be recorded about once a week, usually between 2am and 5am. If you watch TV at these times, the TiVo Service may ask to change the channel to receive a special program. While the TiVo Service will work if the special programs do not record, it's a good idea to allow such channel changes whenever you can.
Record All Episodes with Duplicates
Season Passes will not record a program if the program's description is long enough and matches the description of another program recorded within 28 days. This is called the "28 day rule" and is used to avoid duplicate recordings.
However, you may want to record shows with identical descriptions. You might want to do this if your child expects a certain program to be recorded every week, or if a program is pre-empted (e.g., for news or a ballgame in overtime) and the broadcaster airs the same program a week later.
You can now turn off the 28 day rule and record duplicate episodes by selecting a new recording option, "Show Type: All (with duplicates)." Just go to TiVo Central > Pick Programs to Record > Season Pass Manager. Select the Season Pass, then select "Change Recording Options." Change "Show Type" to "All (with duplicates)."
Everyone can rant until they are blue in the face that this law is the most illegal item possible. Sure it outlaws basic scientific expression, etc. but that in itself will not stop this legislation.
Think back about 70 years. They made alcohol illegal. I'm not a huge drinker, but seriously think about it. Drinking whatever you want to is a fundamental right, but that did not stop them and an insane unpopular law was passed.
Now what happened, the people who understood how to make and distribute liquor became downright rich. Bootleggers had a massive public which did not believe the law was legal in its own right and because of this had no issues purchasing illegal items at a high price.
We all know that whatever closed system schemes are used, they will be fairly easy to bypass. That combined with a large unhappy public is a rather large market. I don't know about you but if this is slammed through the tech industry, I'm going to quit my day job and sell "open systems" at a nice little profit.
She likes it because its cute.
You like it because its a Giga switch
So let them go ahead and pass it, personally I think the fallout will be fun to watch.
What? You don't remember this? Oh, thats because it is worst than traditional public key encryption schemes. 1) Its security through obscurity, you need a method to transfer the time to grab the private key out of all of the possible ones. 2) Whats worse is now for regular private key encryption to transfer the data, instead of having the entire key length as possible combinations, now there are only the ones transmitted by the common source. (No matter how many they are it will always be much less than 2^128)
We all know this compression method will follow a similar path.
I had a variety of services running from my personal PC including MP3 servers, ect. running for several years now. For a while at least one drive would fail every year. (Thanks Western Digital) So a long time ago I realized I needed a full backup system that could handle over 10G about five years ago and several times that today. The solution was a full HD mirroring with some extra backup copies.
Every drive has an identical one not being used but connected and powered on. About once a week (usually after a weekly reboot) all of the primary drives would have their image copied over to their mirror. This would simply handle all OSes and file systems (Windows and Linux). In addition every few hours a job would copy some improtant data that changed on a daily basis, mostly just mail files.
This method didn't provide a perfect solution but if I ever took a hammer to a drive and took it down, all you have to do is power off, switch some jumper pins and reboot. In 3 mins. I would be back to where I was a few days ago. Then some quick extra copying would get back the extra incremental stuff, like mail.
What I loved about this was if I ever messed up an install, there was always an image of a good system from a few days ago plus the other important data. More than one a program like NetZero or something would trash my Win95 box. But this would give me a quick go back. It is a little more work than doing Raid mirroring, but also allows you go "go back in time".
This doesn't seem to work for everyone but has saved me more than once. Just my two cents
Actually people should realize that there are a lot of us who have just be effectivly kicked out of the game. This upgrade did not work for either of the video cards in both of my machines. (Well they work but the graphics have enough bugs to make it unplayable) And they are Rage Pro's, not very new but still decent. Everquest seems to not care that lots of people meet the hardware requirements for the older versions and have been paying good money for some time. I know this is ranting but I'm sort of ticked off with thier 'support' right now.
I can't wait till some soccer mom wacks me with one of these at 12 mph and takes out my knee.
IT will be the easiest personal inqury lawsuit ever.
Boy I'd hate to have to read through all of these :)
It seems to me that someone can't let the Mac vs. PC war end.
OK lets look at this realistically. In order to properly enforce some sort of HD copyright protection, they would need to use some form of public-key encryption scheme. So the HD would have to check with a third party every time it wanted to do something or for that matter anything. This would also mean that no HD could function without a net connection. Somehow I don't see this taking hold. Of course the method they are proposing is crack able. Everything you would need to do so is sitting on the HD. So even if they force this through and force all HD manufactures to comply (which isn't happening), we'll all still get around it. Somehow I think the Linux community will manage. Remember, if I just hear it or saw it, I just copied it.