>The TiVo will step single frames both forward and backward; for no good reason, the ReplayTV will not.
Should end "will not step single frames backward." Replay does let you step forward, but if you want to go back, you have to exit pause and use rewind. Hardly good.
Changing channels on the TiVo is not as fast as on a TV, but it's not terrifically slow (300-800 ms).
On ReplayTV, changing the channel is a 1-5 second ordeal. The only efficient browsing method is to bring up the single-channel display overlay and arrow to the next channel that way. You can use the channel guide, but it's a typical horizontal cable-box type grid, and as I said I don't like it nearly as much as TiVo's two-column system.
Neither brand has a clue about text entry for search boxes, though...I hate those 4x12 letter panels...
Nor about interrupt-driven remote control handlers...they must be polling or why is it so slow and spotty with the response...probably doing it to avoid priority inversion over the video feeds...coulda buffered the remote input then...next time someone builds one of these things, hire an embedded programmer...
I didn't get there in time to see the live feed, so I just saw a "view" button next to the stored files, and it served RM, which I couldn't see because I'm not dumb enough to install RM twice.
You had a classic bad-product experience. I didn't, but I'd still recommend TiVo over ReplayTV.
I own one of each. I recently upgraded my 4-year-old TiVo to a 120GB HD (30 hours at top quality; 145 hours at low quality) and love it again. My old HD was one of the ones with seek-timing problems, so there were hiccups in video and audio output and the menus ran really slow (I maintain it was a timing-design flaw and the drives were fine; TiVo maintained it was bad drives, but they still sold repairs using newer drives with much tighter timing specs rather than just non-bad versions of the same drives...) Anyway. I got the new drive (dirt cheap from http://www.weaknees.com) with TiVo SW preloaded, had my machine booting within 10 minutes (no, really) of cracking the case, and didn't lose a nonce of my lifetime service. Zero video or audio glitches, and menus are 5-10X faster.
The TiVo Channel guide is far easier to use for surfing.
The TiVo will step single frames both forward and backward; for no good reason, the ReplayTV will not.
ReplayTV's scheduling and playback-menu software is slightly more featurous, and allows you to listen to the currently output program (live or recorded), unlike TiVo's, which requires you to escape to a silent menu system to browse or make changes. Both have backgrounded audio and video in live-schedule surfing. Otherwise, ReplayTV's menuing is a bit more tedious and fragile feeling than TiVo's.
My ReplayTV has automatic commercial-skip, but it can be confused by non-go-to-commercial fades in the program near the commercial segments. So you lose the first or last few seconds of some scenes. For shows like that, I revert to using the "skip-forward" button that skips 30 seconds and is slightly quicker to deal with commercials than the TiVo method of triple-FF and hit the play button when you see the show return.
Tivo's play button backs up to an estimate of the end of the commercials coming out of double and triple FF modes. And it's surprising how good it is at guessing your reaction time within a second, so the triple-FF method is effective.
ReplayTV sometimes locks up completely if it gets stuck dialing home. That might have been a break-in problem, as it hasn't happened since the first couple of days I owned it.
In general, TiVo seems to be the more mature, better designed system. And now that I've fixed my HW problems, it feels like I have a brand new one. If I'd done that before getting a ReplayTV, I'd have got a second TiVo instead. Mea guinea piggus.
Oh. And the TiVo with the new HD is absolutely silent. No more disk-whirr in the living room. No fan noise. Scary "is it on" silence. The dolts at ReplayTV used a fan with a stepper motor (I think) and it sounds like they actually use it to keep the fan speed low. Dumb. Rumbles all night long. Not noticeable during the daytime, but the human ear is capable of 6-7 orders of magnitude of sensitivity increase depending on ambient noise, and if you're susceptible to insomnia, it's a stressor. I'm thinking of ripping it out and cooling the thing with a bucket of ice.
One last thing: ReplayTVs can be networked to send recorded shows from unit to unit; I understand that's supposed to be available on newer TiVos. I have no opinion of its value.
I DL winamp, I'm playing songs in seconds. I try to compile perl-2.8.2 under cygwin, and after 6 hours of config hell I run into some ass-hat's failure to terminate a magically included string in a makefile 2 layers deep in an accessory package. It could take a week to find out where the fucking thing is actually coming from.
I'll take closed source any day. It comes with a warranty, and I can still trash their CEO when it breaks.
There's nobody to crap on that anyone cares about when open-source code is shite.
Frankly, I don't see how it builds anywhere, but some machines must be ignoring the unterminated string buried somewhere in the B extension makefile...if that's really where it is...it's what Make says...
I mean, no Apple product could have a defect. Certainly not a predictable one. Certainly not one designed to improve profit margins at initial sale and revenue growth after the warranty period. Not Apple. Not Steve Jobs. Not the Dread Pirate Roberts of Silicon Valley...
There would be no C-Span unless the Congress allowed it into their building. It's not there because of Brian's appeal to the rights of the people to know what their elected representatives are doing, it's there because that's what Brian said to the public, saving Congress the embarassment of admitting why it's really there.
They don't care about open meetings any more than Dick Cheney does.
Taking control of the means of production and forcing wage increases isn't bargaining, it's extortion.
Power doesn't reside in stealing another's property, it resides in controlling the issuance of work and the flow of money into and out of the corporation.
I.e., the manager has all of the power and the worker has none, even if the worker steals the equipment. Because then the manager calls the cops, gets his equipment back, and spends a little time and money replacing the worker.
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Yeah. I just tried that 30-second mod. I kind of like it for skipping commercials. But I sure do miss the way the button used to work.
Why don't the monkeys at TiVo just issue remotes with both buttons?
Make them some shekels, it would.
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One last thing.
I just reread my post, and it's got a bug.
>The TiVo will step single frames both forward and backward; for no good reason, the ReplayTV will not.
Should end "will not step single frames backward." Replay does let you step forward, but if you want to go back, you have to exit pause and use rewind. Hardly good.
One more thing.
Changing channels on the TiVo is not as fast as on a TV, but it's not terrifically slow (300-800 ms).
On ReplayTV, changing the channel is a 1-5 second ordeal. The only efficient browsing method is to bring up the single-channel display overlay and arrow to the next channel that way. You can use the channel guide, but it's a typical horizontal cable-box type grid, and as I said I don't like it nearly as much as TiVo's two-column system.
Neither brand has a clue about text entry for search boxes, though...I hate those 4x12 letter panels...
Nor about interrupt-driven remote control handlers...they must be polling or why is it so slow and spotty with the response...probably doing it to avoid priority inversion over the video feeds...coulda buffered the remote input then...next time someone builds one of these things, hire an embedded programmer...
I didn't get there in time to see the live feed, so I just saw a "view" button next to the stored files, and it served RM, which I couldn't see because I'm not dumb enough to install RM twice.
You had a classic bad-product experience. I didn't, but I'd still recommend TiVo over ReplayTV.
I own one of each. I recently upgraded my 4-year-old TiVo to a 120GB HD (30 hours at top quality; 145 hours at low quality) and love it again. My old HD was one of the ones with seek-timing problems, so there were hiccups in video and audio output and the menus ran really slow (I maintain it was a timing-design flaw and the drives were fine; TiVo maintained it was bad drives, but they still sold repairs using newer drives with much tighter timing specs rather than just non-bad versions of the same drives...) Anyway. I got the new drive (dirt cheap from http://www.weaknees.com) with TiVo SW preloaded, had my machine booting within 10 minutes (no, really) of cracking the case, and didn't lose a nonce of my lifetime service. Zero video or audio glitches, and menus are 5-10X faster.
The TiVo Channel guide is far easier to use for surfing.
The TiVo will step single frames both forward and backward; for no good reason, the ReplayTV will not.
ReplayTV's scheduling and playback-menu software is slightly more featurous, and allows you to listen to the currently output program (live or recorded), unlike TiVo's, which requires you to escape to a silent menu system to browse or make changes. Both have backgrounded audio and video in live-schedule surfing. Otherwise, ReplayTV's menuing is a bit more tedious and fragile feeling than TiVo's.
My ReplayTV has automatic commercial-skip, but it can be confused by non-go-to-commercial fades in the program near the commercial segments. So you lose the first or last few seconds of some scenes. For shows like that, I revert to using the "skip-forward" button that skips 30 seconds and is slightly quicker to deal with commercials than the TiVo method of triple-FF and hit the play button when you see the show return.
Tivo's play button backs up to an estimate of the end of the commercials coming out of double and triple FF modes. And it's surprising how good it is at guessing your reaction time within a second, so the triple-FF method is effective.
ReplayTV sometimes locks up completely if it gets stuck dialing home. That might have been a break-in problem, as it hasn't happened since the first couple of days I owned it.
In general, TiVo seems to be the more mature, better designed system. And now that I've fixed my HW problems, it feels like I have a brand new one. If I'd done that before getting a ReplayTV, I'd have got a second TiVo instead. Mea guinea piggus.
Oh. And the TiVo with the new HD is absolutely silent. No more disk-whirr in the living room. No fan noise. Scary "is it on" silence. The dolts at ReplayTV used a fan with a stepper motor (I think) and it sounds like they actually use it to keep the fan speed low. Dumb. Rumbles all night long. Not noticeable during the daytime, but the human ear is capable of 6-7 orders of magnitude of sensitivity increase depending on ambient noise, and if you're susceptible to insomnia, it's a stressor. I'm thinking of ripping it out and cooling the thing with a bucket of ice.
One last thing: ReplayTVs can be networked to send recorded shows from unit to unit; I understand that's supposed to be available on newer TiVos. I have no opinion of its value.
The reason there's so little blue visible is that there's so little blue in that picture.
Of course it doesn't make a difference if you blur the blue, because it's already 20 dB down from the other colors.
I'd like to see this with calibrated images.
NORAD uses .rm format.
That's funny.
Making you load spyware to see their content.
And then /. lit up Michael Still's computer in a blaze of HTTP.
Only if your sig comes at the beginning of each post.
The exact opposite of a bubble is called a drop.
I am become boldface, the annoyer of /.
Sorry, perl-5.8.2.
I made that mistake in about five places last night.
Sorry. Perl 5.8.2.
Because Open Source blows monkey chunks.
I DL winamp, I'm playing songs in seconds. I try to compile perl-2.8.2 under cygwin, and after 6 hours of config hell I run into some ass-hat's failure to terminate a magically included string in a makefile 2 layers deep in an accessory package. It could take a week to find out where the fucking thing is actually coming from.
I'll take closed source any day. It comes with a warranty, and I can still trash their CEO when it breaks.
There's nobody to crap on that anyone cares about when open-source code is shite.
Just try building Perl 2.8.2 on cygwin.
Frankly, I don't see how it builds anywhere, but some machines must be ignoring the unterminated string buried somewhere in the B extension makefile...if that's really where it is...it's what Make says...
Is it?
I mean, no Apple product could have a defect. Certainly not a predictable one. Certainly not one designed to improve profit margins at initial sale and revenue growth after the warranty period. Not Apple. Not Steve Jobs. Not the Dread Pirate Roberts of Silicon Valley...
There would be no C-Span unless the Congress allowed it into their building. It's not there because of Brian's appeal to the rights of the people to know what their elected representatives are doing, it's there because that's what Brian said to the public, saving Congress the embarassment of admitting why it's really there.
They don't care about open meetings any more than Dick Cheney does.
>Shoot, I read it as International Federation of the Pornographic Industry, a worldwide analogue of the RIAA.
I read it that way every time I look at it, and I wrote it!
Taking control of the means of production and forcing wage increases isn't bargaining, it's extortion.
Power doesn't reside in stealing another's property, it resides in controlling the issuance of work and the flow of money into and out of the corporation.
I.e., the manager has all of the power and the worker has none, even if the worker steals the equipment. Because then the manager calls the cops, gets his equipment back, and spends a little time and money replacing the worker.
Duh.
The Dutch courts have ruled that the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a worldwide analogue of the RIAA), can not sue Kazaa for the transgressions of its users (e.g.). This means Kazaa will be available for legal filesharing, and the recording industry must go after individuals who engage in illegal filesharing.
The Dutch make up about 20% of the world's filesharing individuals, according to the article.
Best: Finding Nemo
Worst, by miles: either ep of the Matrix frantschise.
How do you patch closed source code?
By violating the EULA by disassembling IE?
Lovely. I want Bill Gates poking around my sock drawer because I installed an unauthorized patch...
Nothing in there gives any provenance to the preexisting flight. Dick himself says it was in 1905. I suspect dingoes at his camera.