1. Stereo works just fine on my Tivo. Closed captioning doesn't seem to get recorded, though. I personally don't care.
2. You can buy extra Tivo remotes from the company.
3. I had that same dialup problem until I switched to a different phone jack. Apparently the first one I was connecting to had ring and tip reversed, which doesn't seem to affect phones, but tivo was sensitive to it. Now it's happy. (I agree, that's kinda a bug...) The error I used to get was "no dialtone". Is that the same as what you were getting?
No matter what anyone tells you, if you really like TV, Tivo is the best $400/$700 you'll ever spend. Really. I've had mine 5 months and it so kicks ass, I can't tell you. A couple of minor annoyances, and sure $200 more for the subscription, but it is SOOOO cool, it's well worth it. A coworker of mine bought one, and raved about it, so I tried it and then got one. Now at least 7 people at work have them (I think my job is their biggest sponsor:-) and we all can't live without it. I've only heard bad things about replaytv (although they may have fixed a lot of the problems). My Tivo has crashed exactly once, and a quick reboot fixed it without losing my prefs. I do wish for a firewire port, or enet, but hey... next version:-)
I work at a startup and would always miss my favorite shows. Now the fox sunday night linuep, nypd blue, beat suite, etc., I can see 'em all. And while I have the 15 hour version, I almost always use the "least" quality or "next to least" quality setting, which is more than adequate for stuff you're not going to keep forever... and it ends up being plenty of capacity for me. At the highest quality setting, I've A/B'd it with Digital 8 from a HQ source and it's indistinguishable (at least on my video equipment, which is decent).
If you love TV, run out and buy a Tivo. You won't be disappointed!
Good comments. We also have a highly (98%) dynamic site running apache+php+mysql (plus some big sun boxes in there... somewhere...:-) Anyhow, our site does millions of hits a day (more than a couple) and it takes machines, and architecture, and money. We spend a lot of money on hosting (Exodus, dual gigabit uplinks) and have approx. 100 servers. We've spend hundreds of hours designing our systems to scale big, and be distributed, and run on RICs (ridiculously inexpensive computers). And it does, well! But this is a serious proposition. Get yourself some talent--and don't always belive the guys spouting off "N-tier", "app server", "java" as the only solution... there are many solutions, go discover what's right for YOUR site--maybe it's a 3-tiered java app server, maybe not. Hire good developers a DBA, and remember: always build for a 10x load.
Ah, still have mine, haven't EVER cleaned the underside of it, it's about 6 years old at this point. Great mouse. Wish they'd make more ergo ones with the same technology underneath now!
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1. Stereo works just fine on my Tivo. Closed captioning doesn't seem to get recorded, though. I personally don't care.
2. You can buy extra Tivo remotes from the company.
3. I had that same dialup problem until I switched to a different phone jack. Apparently the first one I was connecting to had ring and tip reversed, which doesn't seem to affect phones, but tivo was sensitive to it. Now it's happy. (I agree, that's kinda a bug...) The error I used to get was "no dialtone". Is that the same as what you were getting?
No matter what anyone tells you, if you really like TV, Tivo is the best $400/$700 you'll ever spend. Really. I've had mine 5 months and it so kicks ass, I can't tell you. A couple of minor annoyances, and sure $200 more for the subscription, but it is SOOOO cool, it's well worth it. A coworker of mine bought one, and raved about it, so I tried it and then got one. Now at least 7 people at work have them (I think my job is their biggest sponsor :-) and we all can't live without it. I've only heard bad things about replaytv (although they may have fixed a lot of the problems). My Tivo has crashed exactly once, and a quick reboot fixed it without losing my prefs. I do wish for a firewire port, or enet, but hey... next version :-)
I work at a startup and would always miss my favorite shows. Now the fox sunday night linuep, nypd blue, beat suite, etc., I can see 'em all. And while I have the 15 hour version, I almost always use the "least" quality or "next to least" quality setting, which is more than adequate for stuff you're not going to keep forever... and it ends up being plenty of capacity for me. At the highest quality setting, I've A/B'd it with Digital 8 from a HQ source and it's indistinguishable (at least on my video equipment, which is decent).
If you love TV, run out and buy a Tivo. You won't be disappointed!
Good comments. We also have a highly (98%) dynamic site running apache+php+mysql (plus some big sun boxes in there... somewhere... :-) Anyhow, our site does millions of hits a day (more than a couple) and it takes machines, and architecture, and money. We spend a lot of money on hosting (Exodus, dual gigabit uplinks) and have approx. 100 servers. We've spend hundreds of hours designing our systems to scale big, and be distributed, and run on RICs (ridiculously inexpensive computers). And it does, well! But this is a serious proposition. Get yourself some talent--and don't always belive the guys spouting off "N-tier", "app server", "java" as the only solution... there are many solutions, go discover what's right for YOUR site--maybe it's a 3-tiered java app server, maybe not. Hire good developers a DBA, and remember: always build for a 10x load.
Ah, still have mine, haven't EVER cleaned the underside of it, it's about 6 years old at this point. Great mouse. Wish they'd make more ergo ones with the same technology underneath now!