Then you likely don't want the other features of the Tivo and would be better off with the cable companies DVR. for 4 years you'll be getting a "deal" from them, then at around the 4.5 year mark you've paid enough monthly fees to own a Tivo outright with lifetime subscription.
Those features that you are saying are irrelevant really are not. Perhaps the transfer shows TO your computer isn't that great, but for $25 you can transfer shows FROM your computer to your Tivo. The series 3 is also a netflix viewer, youtube viewer, picture viewer (I only use it a couple of times a year. Once on each of my daughters birthdays for a slide-show of pictures that runs in the background from the last year. The netflix viewer has allowed me to show older cartoons easily to my kids (They have the original Inspector Gadget on the Streaming todo list and have watched each episode at least twice) Might not seem like much, but those features specifically are very nice and the average household would use them.
As posted many times, don't think of it as a $200 box. Thing of that as the subsidized price. You buy for $200 and you're locked into a contract for $12/month. Or you can own your Tivo for $600. (Lifetime sub is $400.) Friend of mine insists on changing his phone every 2 years when the "free" phone becomes available from Verizon. I try to explain to him he would be better off just buying a phone directly and not getting locked into a contract but he won't hear it. That's what the $200 Tivo is. A Tivo with a contract. Look at the lifetime version -- more expensive up front, but the lifetime sub pays for itself in 2 and a half years.
I'm not sure there is any DVR that is better than a Tivo. I say this as someone who has used MythTV, Tivo, and 3 different cable company's DVRs. When it comes right down to it, anyone can use Tivo. The cable company DVR's are not smart enough, MythTV (admittedly a long ass time ago) was hard to use and difficult to setup.
As for faster, a Series 2 Tivo that is upgraded and starts to have a lot of things on the drive can be a bit slot responding to the remote. This is no longer true with my series 3 HD XL. The speed is great no matter if the drive has 300 items recorded.
Cheaper: yes and no. the $700 price tag I paid for my upgrade ($900 for someone without a previous Tivo to get a discount) is the top of the line Tivo with lifetime service. My last Tivo was $300 and $250 for the lifetime subscription (Yes, I got it that long ago). It is still going strong at my brothers house (I sold it to him for $200 to help me pay for my new Tivo). Even ignoring the $200 I got from selling it, I got it August of 2002. 90 months divided by $550 = $6/month. Well under the Cable company price for a DVR. I did upgrade the hard drive in the Tivo with 2 160GB drives part way through it's life. Both were taken out of service from PC upgrades, but figure an average hard drive price of $100 that gets you up to $750, or $8.33/month. I unfortunately do not know how they fare against each other in power usage, so I honestly can't add in the possible differences between those.
In order for my new $700 Tivo to be more economical than the cable company offering (And assuming I will be tossing a 2GB external drive on it to expand it Figure $100 for the drive, $30 for the enclosure I already have that I plan on using and that makes it $830. 55 months to be same price as the cable DVR. Just over 4 and a half years.
It is a gamble that it will last that long, but if I win that gamble it is just savings at that point.
As for looks, I've not seen a DVR interface that is prettier than Tivo. Would love for someone to show me. It really *IS* as good as Tivo fans make it out to be.
You can get lifetime subscription (The box, not you) for $400, so tack that $400 onto the price of the Tivo and see if it is worth it. As a previous Tivo owner I was given $100 off a new Tivo and as a previous lifetime subscriber I was given $100 off the lifetime sub. Even with that deal it was $700 for my Tivo HD XL. A purchase that to me at least is well well worth it.
As for the monthly fee for the cable card, I was being charged more to rent an HD box from Time Warner, so my cable price went down slightly. I was also able to sell my lifetime sub Series 2 (Which I had upgraded to the maximum of 2x127GB when drives failed) for $200.
Point was: you can run one app, then use the abilities of that app to enhance another app. Tunnel VNC through SSH using your favorite SSH app and your favorite VNC app without having to rely on one app that does SSH + VNC which might be less capable than the 2 separate apps.
These are my thoughts exactly. What do I care that I have to wait another 28 days before I can watch $random_WB_movie? I have so much in the queue I couldn't care less when I watch something.
The real news here is more streaming content. With my TiVo linked to my Netflix account I almost don't care about the DVD's they send me anymore.
nah, it was one of those Saturday morning debate shows.
As for nuclear power plants, I agreed, we have just one problem:
In October 1976, fear of nuclear weapons proliferation (especially after India demonstrated nuclear weapons capabilities using reprocessing technology) led President Gerald Ford to issue a Presidential directive to indefinitely suspend the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium in the U.S. On April 7, 1977 , President Jimmy Carter banned the reprocessing of commercial reactor spent nuclear fuel.
Yeah, but overturned easily by another presidential directive. Someone just needs to have the balls to do it. I'd like to see a type of "Lame Duck" directive that reversed it.
It is like the idiot "liberal" on TV I saw who was asked where the electricity came from for the electric car.
His Answer: "The Wall", I damn near had a brain aneurysm explode from the stupidity.
Was this a pop-news show where the normal audience would be wondering if they needed a "special" circuit run or a more technical audience? Either way, the question of where the electricity comes from is rather silly. We're all pretty much on the same grid in the US. So even if the power I'm using is generated with one thing, I always consider it as a percentage of each type generated in the US. We all share our sources. I say: Build more nuclear plants and reprocess the current waste. Hell, build one plant that specifically takes the waste from all the other plants and use it for generation.
Just get whatever is cheapest if you have a rental. If it is a friends car there will usually be a recommended octane in the users manual. I know my car says specifically to use 87.
I'm not sure about those trucks, but 30 gallons on an SUV is not uncommon. My Lancer is a small 4 cylinder and has an 11 gallon tank. I have seen people put $120+ into tanks on some larger trucks, so that puts them up around the 40-50 gallon range. Some large trucks have multiple tanks too, not to mention the customization that goes on.
I've never driven in Europe, so I'm not sure how the fueling station situation is there, but here in the US (at least the northeast where I live) you're likely within 5 miles of a gas station at any given location (barring the freeway with limited stops)
You have to pay it off, on terms unilaterally adjusted by the lender, on criteria independent of the contract under which you entered the lending agreement.
I don't know about your credit cards, but when I got one of those "The economy is bad, so we're raising your interest rates" letters that wanted to raise my 9% card to 16% there was a clause that I could decline the change and close the card, *KEEPING* my current rate and payoff schedule. So I did that. When a company changes the contract you have a way out. It has been true of everyone who I've heard has received those letters.
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The Tivo server will serve to a Tivo over the network. $30 if I remember correctly.
Then you likely don't want the other features of the Tivo and would be better off with the cable companies DVR. for 4 years you'll be getting a "deal" from them, then at around the 4.5 year mark you've paid enough monthly fees to own a Tivo outright with lifetime subscription.
One time fee for $400. Your cable DVR subscription is ongoing. Takes 2.5 years to even out. Do you plan on having your DVR for longer than that?
You must get all the girls.
Good luck finding a nice looking case the wife will approve of putting under the TV for $60 to put your homebrew DVR into.
What do you mean by extender?
Those features that you are saying are irrelevant really are not. Perhaps the transfer shows TO your computer isn't that great, but for $25 you can transfer shows FROM your computer to your Tivo. The series 3 is also a netflix viewer, youtube viewer, picture viewer (I only use it a couple of times a year. Once on each of my daughters birthdays for a slide-show of pictures that runs in the background from the last year. The netflix viewer has allowed me to show older cartoons easily to my kids (They have the original Inspector Gadget on the Streaming todo list and have watched each episode at least twice) Might not seem like much, but those features specifically are very nice and the average household would use them.
As posted many times, don't think of it as a $200 box. Thing of that as the subsidized price. You buy for $200 and you're locked into a contract for $12/month. Or you can own your Tivo for $600. (Lifetime sub is $400.) Friend of mine insists on changing his phone every 2 years when the "free" phone becomes available from Verizon. I try to explain to him he would be better off just buying a phone directly and not getting locked into a contract but he won't hear it. That's what the $200 Tivo is. A Tivo with a contract. Look at the lifetime version -- more expensive up front, but the lifetime sub pays for itself in 2 and a half years.
They offer lifetime again for $400. Equal to just over 2 years of cable DVR service.
I'm not sure there is any DVR that is better than a Tivo. I say this as someone who has used MythTV, Tivo, and 3 different cable company's DVRs. When it comes right down to it, anyone can use Tivo. The cable company DVR's are not smart enough, MythTV (admittedly a long ass time ago) was hard to use and difficult to setup.
As for faster, a Series 2 Tivo that is upgraded and starts to have a lot of things on the drive can be a bit slot responding to the remote. This is no longer true with my series 3 HD XL. The speed is great no matter if the drive has 300 items recorded.
Cheaper: yes and no. the $700 price tag I paid for my upgrade ($900 for someone without a previous Tivo to get a discount) is the top of the line Tivo with lifetime service. My last Tivo was $300 and $250 for the lifetime subscription (Yes, I got it that long ago). It is still going strong at my brothers house (I sold it to him for $200 to help me pay for my new Tivo). Even ignoring the $200 I got from selling it, I got it August of 2002. 90 months divided by $550 = $6/month. Well under the Cable company price for a DVR. I did upgrade the hard drive in the Tivo with 2 160GB drives part way through it's life. Both were taken out of service from PC upgrades, but figure an average hard drive price of $100 that gets you up to $750, or $8.33/month. I unfortunately do not know how they fare against each other in power usage, so I honestly can't add in the possible differences between those.
In order for my new $700 Tivo to be more economical than the cable company offering (And assuming I will be tossing a 2GB external drive on it to expand it Figure $100 for the drive, $30 for the enclosure I already have that I plan on using and that makes it $830. 55 months to be same price as the cable DVR. Just over 4 and a half years.
It is a gamble that it will last that long, but if I win that gamble it is just savings at that point.
As for looks, I've not seen a DVR interface that is prettier than Tivo. Would love for someone to show me. It really *IS* as good as Tivo fans make it out to be.
You can get lifetime subscription (The box, not you) for $400, so tack that $400 onto the price of the Tivo and see if it is worth it. As a previous Tivo owner I was given $100 off a new Tivo and as a previous lifetime subscriber I was given $100 off the lifetime sub. Even with that deal it was $700 for my Tivo HD XL. A purchase that to me at least is well well worth it.
As for the monthly fee for the cable card, I was being charged more to rent an HD box from Time Warner, so my cable price went down slightly. I was also able to sell my lifetime sub Series 2 (Which I had upgraded to the maximum of 2x127GB when drives failed) for $200.
Meh, I say just flock them all.
Statically link a version on another PC and use the binary.
Most likely the evolution will be a breed of them that don't fly near people. Net win for us.
Point was: you can run one app, then use the abilities of that app to enhance another app. Tunnel VNC through SSH using your favorite SSH app and your favorite VNC app without having to rely on one app that does SSH + VNC which might be less capable than the 2 separate apps.
I like Android for the multiple concurrent apps
Plus the ability to install an SSH client and do port forwarding with an RDP client allowing secure connections to a terminal server.
However, some sites _require_ special characters, while others _forbid_ it, etc, etc.
Indeed. Oddly enough, my WoW account allows for a stronger password than my bank account.
I no longer play WoW, but I still have an authenticator hanging above my monitor. Wish my bank supported tokens.
Turning off your computer stops it too. (confirmed here)
How do you hit [shift]-[ins] to paste?
[ctrl]-[v], or if you prefer: [middle mouse button]
These are my thoughts exactly. What do I care that I have to wait another 28 days before I can watch $random_WB_movie? I have so much in the queue I couldn't care less when I watch something.
The real news here is more streaming content. With my TiVo linked to my Netflix account I almost don't care about the DVD's they send me anymore.
nah, it was one of those Saturday morning debate shows. As for nuclear power plants, I agreed, we have just one problem:
In October 1976, fear of nuclear weapons proliferation (especially after India demonstrated nuclear weapons capabilities using reprocessing technology) led President Gerald Ford to issue a Presidential directive to indefinitely suspend the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium in the U.S. On April 7, 1977 , President Jimmy Carter banned the reprocessing of commercial reactor spent nuclear fuel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
Yeah, but overturned easily by another presidential directive. Someone just needs to have the balls to do it. I'd like to see a type of "Lame Duck" directive that reversed it.
It is like the idiot "liberal" on TV I saw who was asked where the electricity came from for the electric car. His Answer: "The Wall", I damn near had a brain aneurysm explode from the stupidity.
Was this a pop-news show where the normal audience would be wondering if they needed a "special" circuit run or a more technical audience? Either way, the question of where the electricity comes from is rather silly. We're all pretty much on the same grid in the US. So even if the power I'm using is generated with one thing, I always consider it as a percentage of each type generated in the US. We all share our sources. I say: Build more nuclear plants and reprocess the current waste. Hell, build one plant that specifically takes the waste from all the other plants and use it for generation.
Just get whatever is cheapest if you have a rental. If it is a friends car there will usually be a recommended octane in the users manual. I know my car says specifically to use 87.
I'm not sure about those trucks, but 30 gallons on an SUV is not uncommon. My Lancer is a small 4 cylinder and has an 11 gallon tank. I have seen people put $120+ into tanks on some larger trucks, so that puts them up around the 40-50 gallon range. Some large trucks have multiple tanks too, not to mention the customization that goes on.
I've never driven in Europe, so I'm not sure how the fueling station situation is there, but here in the US (at least the northeast where I live) you're likely within 5 miles of a gas station at any given location (barring the freeway with limited stops)
You have to pay it off, on terms unilaterally adjusted by the lender, on criteria independent of the contract under which you entered the lending agreement.
I don't know about your credit cards, but when I got one of those "The economy is bad, so we're raising your interest rates" letters that wanted to raise my 9% card to 16% there was a clause that I could decline the change and close the card, *KEEPING* my current rate and payoff schedule. So I did that. When a company changes the contract you have a way out. It has been true of everyone who I've heard has received those letters.