yeah, but a silent engine is inherent in its design. The 50 mph on the other hand is something that will be improved on as the technology becomes more developed.
Hi, thanks for your input. I haven't used TiVo, but I do have MCE, so maybe I can clarify a few things.
" If a show is interrupted during recording, MCE will automatically schedule a later showing if it's available and doesn't cause a conflict. This happens even if the recording was one-shot."
Let's unpack that sentence.
The first part describes a TiVo season pass or wishlist for which you've enbled the options to record more than one showing. That's been in TiVo software from the beginning.
The second part of your statement is impossible in linear time. If a show is on once and your recorder fails, be it MCE, Myth, TiVo, DVDR, VCR, whatever, it is impossible to recover the signal which is no longer available.
I think by 'one-shot' the original poster meant that the recording wasn't made as part of a series (aka, not a 'Season Pass' recording), but rather was a single episode of a certain program manually selected to be recorded by itself. So if you're recording Conan O'Brien at 12:35, and there's a temporary outage at 1AM, but say your power returns at 1:30, it will try to record the 3AM showing of said program.
Did you really think that as you typed? It is impossible for any tuner to record more than one channel at a time. Padding extends the recording of a channel beyond the match in the schedule data. MCE most certainly is NOT capable of somehow recording multiple channels per tuner concurrently, nor can it record linearly temporal broadcasts in a non-linear manner.
In this case, I think the original poster meant that soft-padding was flexible--MCE will record a few minutes before and after each program only if it doesn't cause a conflict. I don't know how a TiVo behaves in this regard.
"- MCE's interface is better. You can see the current program in most of the menus,"
Do you mean video overlay? It's not that difficult to inhibit playback of the looping backgrounds on a TiVo. That's been available for more than a year.
This means that whatever program is playing is displayed in the corner of the screen while you're browsing other menus. It shows a thumbnail version of the video (and the audio continues on as normal). So for example you can be watching something and looking for new programs to record the same time.
What you said about Linux being more stable than Windows XP is true--I don't think I've let my machine run for more than a week without rebooting, but then again I do other stuff on it too besides just recording TV.
Sometimes people don't express themselves clearly. If you assume that what they said makes sense, and try to understand what they mean, you'll probably understand them a lot better than if you assume they're stupid.
For example, products were often "bundled" with less popular products; you might not be able to get some item that you need without having to buy a bar of soap with it, or whatnot (so everyone would end up with way too much soap).
In his book, "How the Laser Happened" Charles Townes (the inventor of the maser (microwave laser)) has a chapter about the patent games that he went through. The gist of it was that most original inventions are too ahead of their time for the original patents to make money. It's the subsidiary but later patents that may involve only minor modifications that really bring in the dough. Case in point: Jay Gould, another scientist who claimed that he should own the patent for the laser fought for it in court for over a decade before it was awarded him. Turns out, his initial failures to obtain the patent caused him to make a lot more money than he would have otherwise.
It seems that the first player in a new field isn't the one who makes the biggest bucks off its original ideas. For example, if this whole peer to peer thing ends up making money somehow, we'll all point at Napster and say they were first, but such -and-such company is actually the one making all the money.
did the study account for the cost of living? sure, the USA spends a lot of money per student, but then maybe everything just costs more here. a higher cost of living means we have to pay our teachers more, it costs more to build schools and facilities, etc.
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I think that would require you to build a 12-inch device of a different nature.
heh--when i first read that, i thought you said 'master chef'. maybe it's cuz you used the word 'french' right before.
"Our French chef was just captured by a team of Elites! Now our whole battalion is going to starve!" "Don't worry, I'll beam aboard their ship and rescue him..."
well clearly the results of this experiment only hold within a certain regime. if the viscosity varies too much in either direction, your swimming effectiveness would decrease, i'm sure. picture this: you're swimming in a fluid that's so viscous that it's essentially solid (eg glass). are you gonna go anywhere? NO! You wouldn't even be able to do a single stroke. All the experiment proves is that within a certain range of viscosities above the viscosity of water, people's swimming speeds don't vary much. if you go outside of that range you sure as hell will notice that this doesn't hold true anymore.
I'm running MCE2004 in my dorm room. I must say, the nice thing about it is that it's built on winXP, so filesharing is easy to set up. lots of people on campus watch my recorded programs through microsoft sharing, and lots of my friends put in requests for various shows. that way, even people without TiVo/Tivo knockoffs can enjoy the benefits of having a personal video recorder.
i'm sure that mythTV can be made to emulate microsoft sharing, but i'm equally sure that it'd be a big pain in the arse.
Just a couple of thoughts 1) what if someone hacks your house? guy comes home, kitchen appliances are going crazy, this voice comes from the speakers, "ALL YOUR HOUSE ARE BELONG TO US!", prOn on the TV, etc
2) didn't you guys see the matrix, or terminator, or any of the other movies that featured computers wresting control of the world from humankind? this is how that starts! do you WANT to give computers that much power?
For example, if an enhanced ad for Carnival Cruise Lines is aired during a program, viewers would see an icon promoting it. They could then click on the icon to watch a 3-minute video clip while their show continued recording in the background.
Obviously, the ad would have to be recorded before the actual show airs for this to work. So say this ad is for Alias, a show where people are constantly trying to guess what happens next. I can see lots of people spinning up theories based on what ads they notice are recorded on their TiVo boxes. Now, I'm not the type who minds spoilers, but for some people this could be a bad thing.
And here's an interesting twist -- why doesn't an insurance company insure people against RIAA lawsuits for $10/mo so they can download as much as they want on Kazaa?
uh...cuz illegal file-sharing is supposed to be FREE? i mean, that's why I do it!:)
It would be interesting to see how much file-sharing has gone down as a result of the law suits. The RIAA's recent actions have nothing to do what the law suits are ostensibly about, ie getting back money that was lost due to file-sharing, it's more of a way to scare people into less file-sharing in the future. Even if they are losing money in the short run with these tactics, they may very well be making up for that in the long run. Smart business move? I don't know, I guess we'll see.
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Gimme mithril or adamantium foil.
that reminds me of a question my younger brother asked me the other day. what would happen if you had adamantium claws tried to scratch mithril armor?
so...is her guest account enabled? ;) j/k
yeah, but a silent engine is inherent in its design. The 50 mph on the other hand is something that will be improved on as the technology becomes more developed.
Hi, thanks for your input. I haven't used TiVo, but I do have MCE, so maybe I can clarify a few things.
" If a show is interrupted during recording, MCE will automatically schedule a later showing if it's available and doesn't cause a conflict. This happens even if the recording was one-shot."
Let's unpack that sentence.
The first part describes a TiVo season pass or wishlist for which you've enbled the options to record more than one showing. That's been in TiVo software from the beginning.
The second part of your statement is impossible in linear time. If a show is on once and your recorder fails, be it MCE, Myth, TiVo, DVDR, VCR, whatever, it is impossible to recover the signal which is no longer available.
I think by 'one-shot' the original poster meant that the recording wasn't made as part of a series (aka, not a 'Season Pass' recording), but rather was a single episode of a certain program manually selected to be recorded by itself. So if you're recording Conan O'Brien at 12:35, and there's a temporary outage at 1AM, but say your power returns at 1:30, it will try to record the 3AM showing of said program.
"- MCE softpads automatically, and unlike TiVo's padding, softpadding doesn't create conflicts."
Did you really think that as you typed? It is impossible for any tuner to record more than one channel at a time. Padding extends the recording of a channel beyond the match in the schedule data. MCE most certainly is NOT capable of somehow recording multiple channels per tuner concurrently, nor can it record linearly temporal broadcasts in a non-linear manner.
In this case, I think the original poster meant that soft-padding was flexible--MCE will record a few minutes before and after each program only if it doesn't cause a conflict. I don't know how a TiVo behaves in this regard.
"- MCE's interface is better. You can see the current program in most of the menus,"
Do you mean video overlay? It's not that difficult to inhibit playback of the looping backgrounds on a TiVo. That's been available for more than a year.
This means that whatever program is playing is displayed in the corner of the screen while you're browsing other menus. It shows a thumbnail version of the video (and the audio continues on as normal). So for example you can be watching something and looking for new programs to record the same time.
What you said about Linux being more stable than Windows XP is true--I don't think I've let my machine run for more than a week without rebooting, but then again I do other stuff on it too besides just recording TV.
Sometimes people don't express themselves clearly. If you assume that what they said makes sense, and try to understand what they mean, you'll probably understand them a lot better than if you assume they're stupid.
For example, products were often "bundled" with less popular products; you might not be able to get some item that you need without having to buy a bar of soap with it, or whatnot (so everyone would end up with way too much soap).
I didn't know Microsoft made soap!
In his book, "How the Laser Happened" Charles Townes (the inventor of the maser (microwave laser)) has a chapter about the patent games that he went through. The gist of it was that most original inventions are too ahead of their time for the original patents to make money. It's the subsidiary but later patents that may involve only minor modifications that really bring in the dough. Case in point: Jay Gould, another scientist who claimed that he should own the patent for the laser fought for it in court for over a decade before it was awarded him. Turns out, his initial failures to obtain the patent caused him to make a lot more money than he would have otherwise.
It seems that the first player in a new field isn't the one who makes the biggest bucks off its original ideas. For example, if this whole peer to peer thing ends up making money somehow, we'll all point at Napster and say they were first, but such -and-such company is actually the one making all the money.
did the study account for the cost of living? sure, the USA spends a lot of money per student, but then maybe everything just costs more here. a higher cost of living means we have to pay our teachers more, it costs more to build schools and facilities, etc.
I think that would require you to build a 12-inch device of a different nature.
heh--when i first read that, i thought you said 'master chef'. maybe it's cuz you used the word 'french' right before.
"Our French chef was just captured by a team of Elites! Now our whole battalion is going to starve!"
"Don't worry, I'll beam aboard their ship and rescue him..."
fictional characters can be from books right?
oops, i meant tin man
the tit man from wizard of oz? he had to be a robot!
well clearly the results of this experiment only hold within a certain regime. if the viscosity varies too much in either direction, your swimming effectiveness would decrease, i'm sure. picture this: you're swimming in a fluid that's so viscous that it's essentially solid (eg glass). are you gonna go anywhere? NO! You wouldn't even be able to do a single stroke. All the experiment proves is that within a certain range of viscosities above the viscosity of water, people's swimming speeds don't vary much. if you go outside of that range you sure as hell will notice that this doesn't hold true anymore.
well, good thing that guy is wearing a clean room hat. it looks like his hair has a habit of falling off his head :)
if someone told me that the first piece of hormel spam was still sitting around uneaten after 100 years i'd believe that too
you're welcome! if i hadn't been working in that x-ray lab i NEVER would have realized that crick was dead. cheers!
I'm running MCE2004 in my dorm room. I must say, the nice thing about it is that it's built on winXP, so filesharing is easy to set up. lots of people on campus watch my recorded programs through microsoft sharing, and lots of my friends put in requests for various shows. that way, even people without TiVo/Tivo knockoffs can enjoy the benefits of having a personal video recorder.
i'm sure that mythTV can be made to emulate microsoft sharing, but i'm equally sure that it'd be a big pain in the arse.
Just a couple of thoughts
1) what if someone hacks your house? guy comes home, kitchen appliances are going crazy, this voice comes from the speakers, "ALL YOUR HOUSE ARE BELONG TO US!", prOn on the TV, etc
2) didn't you guys see the matrix, or terminator, or any of the other movies that featured computers wresting control of the world from humankind? this is how that starts! do you WANT to give computers that much power?
get some solar panels of equal surface area and you'll have something which is more efficient
Sawfish, a chainsaw-wielding robotic submarine...
is it me, or does this sound like the premise of a really bad horror movie? texas chainsaw massacre meets Jaws?
wasn't that a cartoon or something?
For example, if an enhanced ad for Carnival Cruise Lines is aired during a program, viewers would see an icon promoting it. They could then click on the icon to watch a 3-minute video clip while their show continued recording in the background.
Obviously, the ad would have to be recorded before the actual show airs for this to work. So say this ad is for Alias, a show where people are constantly trying to guess what happens next. I can see lots of people spinning up theories based on what ads they notice are recorded on their TiVo boxes. Now, I'm not the type who minds spoilers, but for some people this could be a bad thing.
And here's an interesting twist -- why doesn't an insurance company insure people against RIAA lawsuits for $10/mo so they can download as much as they want on Kazaa?
:)
uh...cuz illegal file-sharing is supposed to be FREE? i mean, that's why I do it!
It would be interesting to see how much file-sharing has gone down as a result of the law suits. The RIAA's recent actions have nothing to do what the law suits are ostensibly about, ie getting back money that was lost due to file-sharing, it's more of a way to scare people into less file-sharing in the future. Even if they are losing money in the short run with these tactics, they may very well be making up for that in the long run. Smart business move? I don't know, I guess we'll see.
the company should just change their name. bad publicity begone!