That's what RB has said. It will be worth it though, as we will be getting VBR (Variable Bitrate) encoding, which should increase the quality of the recording, and give you a bit more space to work with. The only downside is that it won't be nearly as easy to determine total space, as it is impossible to tell how much a show will take up.
Also, FWIW, the 2.5 version of the TiVo software includes a backdoor to enable 30 second skip. Check out the AVS Forum and I'm sure you'll be able to find it. Almost all DirecTiVos have been updated to 2.5, so they have this feature right now. Stand alone TiVos won't see 2.5 until about January ufortunately due to some delays with VBR encoding.
Also, what about dual tuners? Having a second tuner is invaluable, as it allows you to record two shows at once. So far, I haven't seen any mention of dual tuners on the RP4000. DirecTiVos have this ability right now.
I'm not even convinced that Sonicblue can pull off the features they are promising. The "Send Show to Other RPTV User" has so many copyright issues I won't even get into it. Plus, who really wants to spend at minimum $700 on a RPTV when you can find DirecTiVos for as little at $129 with new DirecTV service. Add in the $250 TiVo lifetime sub, and you're still about $300 ahead. Hack your box, and you can have over 120 hours of recording time, and still be underneath the cost for the base RPTV 4000 model.
I'll stick with my TiVo. UTV came along with big promises, and has largely failed. Replay won't have me convinced until they actually get the thing working with all the features functional.
Sure you can. The DVD-Audio standard allows for audible watermarking, which is exactly what is being done to standard CDs. SACDs are much different. They are watermarked, but the information is stored in the Text area and TOC. The audio is not affected like it is with DVD-Audio
Audiophile labels still produce a ton of vinyl. There are even some major artists who's records are available on vinyl; R.E.M. and Radiohead both come to mind. As a matter of fact, every single album R.E.M. has ever released is availble in vinyl from Amazon.com.
Agreed. The British and Canadian notes are much nicer than the plain green notes in the US. It would be much easier to quickly find a certain denomination if they were at least different colors.
Oh, and FWIW, you should never enter you ATM PIN at a POS terminal. If your card has a Visa/MC logo, use it as a credit card instead.
Great email. I'm glad providers are finally taking a stand. If these machines have still not been patched after 2 months of publicity, they never will. The only way you are going to get it done is to kick these people off the net until they do it. It takes some balls to do this, as these idiots are also the type who will call and throw a huge fit claiming that their machines are perfectly fine. I wouldn't want to be in customer service, but I'm glad their doing it for the betterment of the net.
This just proves how ignorant radio execs are about music. This song in paticular has to do with a peeping tom, and nothing to do with a crash of any sort.
All hail the NE2000 clones! I had at least one honest-to-goodness Novell NE1000 (yes, one thousand) on my network too. Now I have a box full of these old, cheap cards. Wonder what I'd get for them on eBay?
I'll have to agree with you on this point. I have had endless trouble with supposed "plug-and-play" NICs. NE2k clones, OTOH, seem to work almost universally. Just set the hardware jumpers to an IO/IRQ setup that fits in your machine, plug it in, spend about 15 seconds editing config files, and they Just Work. You can't beat NE NICs for universal compatibility, and yes, they are dirt cheap.
NAT on some addresses and passing others through. I haven't seen one of these little boxes allow that from the ones I've used/looked at
It sounds like what the poster was needing is just something to do portforwarding. For most server applications, except DNS and possibly passive FTP, just forwarding whatever service you are needing to run on the internal machines from the firewall works extremely well. I know every Netgear Cable/DSL router I have ever used has this ability, and I assume the Linksys boxes will as well. These boxes will also allow you to assign some boxes via DHCP and some static.
Now, if you need routable addresses to internal machines, you are going to have to look beyond home routers. I have yet to see any that will allow you to do a combonation of 1:1 NAT/IP masq. Of course, this setup shouldn't be difficult to accomplish with a small *nix router.
I for one will never buy another high-rpm drive until they have proven them reliable.
I've never had issues with a 7200 RPM drive, but there are some applications where they definitely don't work well. If you don't have good heat dissapation in your case, don't get a 7200 RPM drive. They produce much more heat than a 5400 RPM drive. 7200 RPM drives are known to not work well in a TiVo. The heat they put out tends to cause severe stutter problems, among other things.
Plus why do I have to rent my digital converter box from the cable company, why don't they just standardise the format so we can have digital cable ready TVs, VCRs, and now PVRs.
Because it gives them control. Requiring a user to have one of their boxes to decode digital cable makes it extremely difficult if not impossible to steal. Not so on analog. The cable companies want to keep the standards closed, that way it makes it that much more difficult to crack.
Cable companies are in a good position now though. Since their network is bidirectional, piracy has been almost completely eliminated on the digital side. They can simply choose what to send you and what not to send you. It is theoretically possible to have digital cable ready boxes freely available, but you would have to call the cable company and register it with them before it would work. That would though force some standards, and cable companies don't like standards. Just look how long it has taken them to agree on how to broadcast high-definition.
Not to mention, most digital cable systems are actually a hybrid analog/digital system. Usually, the first 100 channels or so are still analog, then anything above that is encoded digitally. For a DVR, that would mean you would still have to include the hardware to do MPEG2 encoding, which adds to the price significantly.
Not for a DVR. At the lowest quality, a 40 gig drive in a TiVo will give you about 40 hours. At the highest quality, you're looking at around 10-15 hours. Once you really start using, you'll find that space very quickly runs out.
Why is it that as TV viewing technology gets better, TV seems to be getting worse?
You obviously don't own a TiVo. You would be amazed, there is actually good stuff on TV. TiVo makes it much easier to sift through the garbage and locate the gems. I know my TV watching has gone up drastically since getting my TiVo, and I'm actually watching stuff that I LIKE.
Civil law, not criminal law, governs most copyright cases. The only right the accused gets in a civil case is the right to trial by jury. All that "innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt" and "right to remain silent" jazz applies only to criminal cases.
Someone please mod this up. This is the absolute truth. In civil law, the defendant does not have near as many protections as they do under criminal law. As a matter of fact, in civil law, you can even be required to testify against your own interests. There is no "pleading the fifth" like you hear about in criminal cases.
Wait a minute! -1, Offtopic? Can someone please tell me how my post was offtopic? Let alone why it got modded down to -1? Where's Meta-Moderation when you need it...
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The Baby Bells enjoyed what was essentailly a government mandated monopoly for decades. Now that the monopoly has been lifted, they are abusing their previous status as being the preferred carrier of telephone service to push the competition out of business. They were given millions of dollars to build the infrastructure. Now that they own it, they make it as difficult as possible for anyone else to use it. This is why the government must step in. It would be different if they acheived their current customer base from the start out of free-competition and the open market. However, the Bells were handed millions of captive customers years ago, and are now using that to prevent anyone from making a significant dent in the market.
I'm on arrund 500 since the 1st, on a 213.*.0.0 network. Other people have been getting them every second or two (at peak times)
There seems to be a lot of IIS servers running on cable modems. I am on RoadRunner in the 65.0.0.0 class A. My firewall has been getting hits from machines in this same range constantly for the last few days.
I don't know what you're trying to prove there. Their firewall filters out all ping requests to every single host on Slashdot. Go ahead, try to ping www.slashdot.org, see what you get.
Anyone else put in mind of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation? (RIP Douglas)
My favorite is page 719 of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. (can also be found in Mostly Harmless, but don't know which page) The Great Telephone and Ventilation Riots of SrDr 3454. Douglas' narration of the Breathe-O-Smart system is hysterical, and describes Microsoft to a T.
is that my hand-eye coordination is too fast for it.
Same problem. Guess I've been playing video games too long, but I was hitting it as soon as the show came back on, and was getting pushed back a quite a bit. I've just gotten better at waiting a second or so before hitting play.
At least on TiVo, it is impossible to skip over the commercials. Even on maximum fast forward, which is mighty tricky to stop with precision, you get the gist of the commercials and the advertisers still get brand recognition.
Well, not really. When you are FF'ding at 60x, you are going at a minute a second. Think about it, that's a 30-second commercial going by every half-second. It is pretty hard to get the gist of what is being sold in that amount of time. It does take some practice, but with TiVo's jump-back feature, you can usually get the timing down to get back to the show perfectly on time. I hate commercials. Now that I have TiVo, I usually start watching live programming about 15-minutes late. That way, I can still watch it basically in the same time frame as the non-TiVo people. You would be absolutely amazed how much of your life is wasted looking at ads.
and many place little visual "bugs" in the corner of the programming itself. (TNT is particularly annoying in this regard.)
Absolutely. Every ad-based network has these little icons. Also, many times when TiVo records something, the network's icon appears next to the show in the Now Playing list.
Many of the described problems can be addressed through simple changes if the networks care.... Instead of starting the program at 8:30:00, start it at 8:30:05 and preceed it with 5 seconds of "You're watching ____."
Not a bad idea. One of the most annoying things networks do now for a PVR user is start their shows about 15-30 seconds before they are actually scheduled. TiVo 2.0.1 has a workaround for this, but it is impossible to anticipate what the networks will do. Plus, it extends the show ahead by one minute, potentially conflicting with a show scheduled to be recorded in the timeslot directly preceding. If the networks would start their shows on time, and stop bunching things around the primetime slots, (thus allow for fewer conflicts) I would very happily deal with 5 seconds of branding at the beginning of a show.
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That's what RB has said. It will be worth it though, as we will be getting VBR (Variable Bitrate) encoding, which should increase the quality of the recording, and give you a bit more space to work with. The only downside is that it won't be nearly as easy to determine total space, as it is impossible to tell how much a show will take up.
It's there. Check out this thread for the combo.
Also, FWIW, the 2.5 version of the TiVo software includes a backdoor to enable 30 second skip. Check out the AVS Forum and I'm sure you'll be able to find it. Almost all DirecTiVos have been updated to 2.5, so they have this feature right now. Stand alone TiVos won't see 2.5 until about January ufortunately due to some delays with VBR encoding.
Also, what about dual tuners? Having a second tuner is invaluable, as it allows you to record two shows at once. So far, I haven't seen any mention of dual tuners on the RP4000. DirecTiVos have this ability right now.
I'm not even convinced that Sonicblue can pull off the features they are promising. The "Send Show to Other RPTV User" has so many copyright issues I won't even get into it. Plus, who really wants to spend at minimum $700 on a RPTV when you can find DirecTiVos for as little at $129 with new DirecTV service. Add in the $250 TiVo lifetime sub, and you're still about $300 ahead. Hack your box, and you can have over 120 hours of recording time, and still be underneath the cost for the base RPTV 4000 model.
I'll stick with my TiVo. UTV came along with big promises, and has largely failed. Replay won't have me convinced until they actually get the thing working with all the features functional.
Sure you can. The DVD-Audio standard allows for audible watermarking, which is exactly what is being done to standard CDs. SACDs are much different. They are watermarked, but the information is stored in the Text area and TOC. The audio is not affected like it is with DVD-Audio
Audiophile labels still produce a ton of vinyl. There are even some major artists who's records are available on vinyl; R.E.M. and Radiohead both come to mind. As a matter of fact, every single album R.E.M. has ever released is availble in vinyl from Amazon.com.
Agreed. The British and Canadian notes are much nicer than the plain green notes in the US. It would be much easier to quickly find a certain denomination if they were at least different colors.
Oh, and FWIW, you should never enter you ATM PIN at a POS terminal. If your card has a Visa/MC logo, use it as a credit card instead.
Great email. I'm glad providers are finally taking a stand. If these machines have still not been patched after 2 months of publicity, they never will. The only way you are going to get it done is to kick these people off the net until they do it. It takes some balls to do this, as these idiots are also the type who will call and throw a huge fit claiming that their machines are perfectly fine. I wouldn't want to be in customer service, but I'm glad their doing it for the betterment of the net.
They have a different colored background, and say "Sponsored Link" to the right. To any person with a marginal amount of sanity, it is pretty obvious.
Dave Matthews Band "Crash Into Me"
This just proves how ignorant radio execs are about music. This song in paticular has to do with a peeping tom, and nothing to do with a crash of any sort.
All hail the NE2000 clones! I had at least one honest-to-goodness Novell NE1000 (yes, one thousand) on my network too. Now I have a box full of these old, cheap cards. Wonder what I'd get for them on eBay?
I'll have to agree with you on this point. I have had endless trouble with supposed "plug-and-play" NICs. NE2k clones, OTOH, seem to work almost universally. Just set the hardware jumpers to an IO/IRQ setup that fits in your machine, plug it in, spend about 15 seconds editing config files, and they Just Work. You can't beat NE NICs for universal compatibility, and yes, they are dirt cheap.
NAT on some addresses and passing others through. I haven't seen one of these little boxes allow that from the ones I've used/looked at
It sounds like what the poster was needing is just something to do portforwarding. For most server applications, except DNS and possibly passive FTP, just forwarding whatever service you are needing to run on the internal machines from the firewall works extremely well. I know every Netgear Cable/DSL router I have ever used has this ability, and I assume the Linksys boxes will as well. These boxes will also allow you to assign some boxes via DHCP and some static.
Now, if you need routable addresses to internal machines, you are going to have to look beyond home routers. I have yet to see any that will allow you to do a combonation of 1:1 NAT/IP masq. Of course, this setup shouldn't be difficult to accomplish with a small *nix router.
I for one will never buy another high-rpm drive until they have proven them reliable.
I've never had issues with a 7200 RPM drive, but there are some applications where they definitely don't work well. If you don't have good heat dissapation in your case, don't get a 7200 RPM drive. They produce much more heat than a 5400 RPM drive. 7200 RPM drives are known to not work well in a TiVo. The heat they put out tends to cause severe stutter problems, among other things.
Plus why do I have to rent my digital converter box from the cable company, why don't they just standardise the format so we can have digital cable ready TVs, VCRs, and now PVRs.
Because it gives them control. Requiring a user to have one of their boxes to decode digital cable makes it extremely difficult if not impossible to steal. Not so on analog. The cable companies want to keep the standards closed, that way it makes it that much more difficult to crack.
Cable companies are in a good position now though. Since their network is bidirectional, piracy has been almost completely eliminated on the digital side. They can simply choose what to send you and what not to send you. It is theoretically possible to have digital cable ready boxes freely available, but you would have to call the cable company and register it with them before it would work. That would though force some standards, and cable companies don't like standards. Just look how long it has taken them to agree on how to broadcast high-definition.
Not to mention, most digital cable systems are actually a hybrid analog/digital system. Usually, the first 100 channels or so are still analog, then anything above that is encoded digitally. For a DVR, that would mean you would still have to include the hardware to do MPEG2 encoding, which adds to the price significantly.
o 500 with a 40 gig HD. Thats alot of space.
Not for a DVR. At the lowest quality, a 40 gig drive in a TiVo will give you about 40 hours. At the highest quality, you're looking at around 10-15 hours. Once you really start using, you'll find that space very quickly runs out.
Why is it that as TV viewing technology gets better, TV seems to be getting worse?
You obviously don't own a TiVo. You would be amazed, there is actually good stuff on TV. TiVo makes it much easier to sift through the garbage and locate the gems. I know my TV watching has gone up drastically since getting my TiVo, and I'm actually watching stuff that I LIKE.
Civil law, not criminal law, governs most copyright cases. The only right the accused gets in a civil case is the right to trial by jury. All that "innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt" and "right to remain silent" jazz applies only to criminal cases.
Someone please mod this up. This is the absolute truth. In civil law, the defendant does not have near as many protections as they do under criminal law. As a matter of fact, in civil law, you can even be required to testify against your own interests. There is no "pleading the fifth" like you hear about in criminal cases.
Damn, posted in the wrong article. Okay, agreed, that was dumb.
Wait a minute! -1, Offtopic? Can someone please tell me how my post was offtopic? Let alone why it got modded down to -1? Where's Meta-Moderation when you need it...
The Baby Bells enjoyed what was essentailly a government mandated monopoly for decades. Now that the monopoly has been lifted, they are abusing their previous status as being the preferred carrier of telephone service to push the competition out of business. They were given millions of dollars to build the infrastructure. Now that they own it, they make it as difficult as possible for anyone else to use it. This is why the government must step in. It would be different if they acheived their current customer base from the start out of free-competition and the open market. However, the Bells were handed millions of captive customers years ago, and are now using that to prevent anyone from making a significant dent in the market.
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Update: 08/14 08:39 PM by T:Original headline was wrong, said ".4FPS" but as cxreg pointed out,
.4 frame per second isn't 4FPS. Oops.
Shouldn't that read ".4FPS doesn't equal 4/10 a second per frame"?I'm on arrund 500 since the 1st, on a 213.*.0.0 network. Other people have been getting them every second or two (at peak times)
There seems to be a lot of IIS servers running on cable modems. I am on RoadRunner in the 65.0.0.0 class A. My firewall has been getting hits from machines in this same range constantly for the last few days.
PING banjo.slashdot.org (64.28.67.73)
I don't know what you're trying to prove there. Their firewall filters out all ping requests to every single host on Slashdot. Go ahead, try to ping www.slashdot.org, see what you get.
Anyone else put in mind of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation? (RIP Douglas)
My favorite is page 719 of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. (can also be found in Mostly Harmless, but don't know which page) The Great Telephone and Ventilation Riots of SrDr 3454. Douglas' narration of the Breathe-O-Smart system is hysterical, and describes Microsoft to a T.
is that my hand-eye coordination is too fast for it.
Same problem. Guess I've been playing video games too long, but I was hitting it as soon as the show came back on, and was getting pushed back a quite a bit. I've just gotten better at waiting a second or so before hitting play.
At least on TiVo, it is impossible to skip over the commercials. Even on maximum fast forward, which is mighty tricky to stop with precision, you get the gist of the commercials and the advertisers still get brand recognition.
... Instead of starting the program at 8:30:00, start it at 8:30:05 and preceed it with 5 seconds of "You're watching ____."
Well, not really. When you are FF'ding at 60x, you are going at a minute a second. Think about it, that's a 30-second commercial going by every half-second. It is pretty hard to get the gist of what is being sold in that amount of time. It does take some practice, but with TiVo's jump-back feature, you can usually get the timing down to get back to the show perfectly on time. I hate commercials. Now that I have TiVo, I usually start watching live programming about 15-minutes late. That way, I can still watch it basically in the same time frame as the non-TiVo people. You would be absolutely amazed how much of your life is wasted looking at ads.
and many place little visual "bugs" in the corner of the programming itself. (TNT is particularly annoying in this regard.)
Absolutely. Every ad-based network has these little icons. Also, many times when TiVo records something, the network's icon appears next to the show in the Now Playing list.
Many of the described problems can be addressed through simple changes if the networks care.
Not a bad idea. One of the most annoying things networks do now for a PVR user is start their shows about 15-30 seconds before they are actually scheduled. TiVo 2.0.1 has a workaround for this, but it is impossible to anticipate what the networks will do. Plus, it extends the show ahead by one minute, potentially conflicting with a show scheduled to be recorded in the timeslot directly preceding. If the networks would start their shows on time, and stop bunching things around the primetime slots, (thus allow for fewer conflicts) I would very happily deal with 5 seconds of branding at the beginning of a show.