Optimist. If anything, it's the cable companies. They are like the recording industry: we don't want to try anything new because we are making so much money the old way.
Who's to say that the VOD that gets implemented doesn't allow you to watch it as many times as you like after you've paid for it?
Hi, I'm your cable company and I'm deploying VOD and I intend to not screw the customer like I did when I rolled out Data Service. I mean I intend to not screw the customer like when I rolled out Digital Cable and conviced you it was better for you than analog. I mean... Screw it. I'm going to screw you as many different ways that I can, including VOD.
The cable company is in the business of making money and has a history of implementing things to make their bottom line happy rather than their customers, since who else are you going to go to?
Have you even done any reading about it before mentioning it? MPEG1 is a compression scheme. MPEG2 is a compression scheme. MPEG4 is a compression scheme. MPEG7 and MPEG 21 are not. If my memory serves me correctly, MPEG7 is a Metadata description language and MPEG21 is a more holisitic solution incorporating MPEG7 and compression technologies.
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Not only are they keeping the people most likey to cancel happy, they are also keeping the people with highest profit margin happy (less rentals means less shipping cost to netflix). So if could be viewed as simply good business practices to keep the customers you make the most money off of happy.
There is no web server on a Tivo (unless you add one). The TiVo "phone home" to schedule the web recordings. For broadband users, this can be as often at every 15 minutes.
AOL is planning on sweeping into a market with an obviously inferior product that gives consumers less control than products that are already on the market, they'll probably charge more for it (wild guess there), and they seriously expect this to be a profit-making venture.
Well, it worked for them once before. They excel at taking technical things and making them easy enough for every moron to use. They will sell this service to Joe Sixpack who wouldn't know how to hook up a Tivo. And they have at least one garunteed customer, Time Warner Cable. Any other customers are just icing on the cake.
What you forgot is that AOL is really AOL-Time Warner, and they own most of the content providers! What are they going to do, blackmail themselves? Well, I guess there is disney, but it's only a matter of time until AOL buys Disney...
You would want to use a "deinterlace" filter to remove the interlacing from your NTSC source. You would want to use an "inverse telecine" filter to convert a movie (sourced at 24fps) that was shown on video (30fps) back to 24fps.
Who else thought this was going to be a discussion on the various benifits to 2 vs 3 vs 4 vs 5 vs 8 vs hard tabs? Boy was I dissapointed when I actually took the time to read the link.
While I'm upset at the prospect of paying extra for something I'll never used when I buy my next TV (I have cable/sat. and have no use for an over-the-air tuner), but the fact that he wants to break all the current VCR's that exist. So rather than just forcing everyone to buy new TV's, they also want you to get a new VCR!
Actually, they would be selling them to the highest bidder (it's actually an auction). And use the money from the sale to help balance the budget deficit.
Let's see, what could it be used for (these are just off the top of my head): - A dedicated range for 802.11b - A dedicated range for WISP
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Optimist. If anything, it's the cable companies. They are like the recording industry: we don't want to try anything new because we are making so much money the old way.
Hi, I'm your cable company and I'm deploying VOD and I intend to not screw the customer like I did when I rolled out Data Service. I mean I intend to not screw the customer like when I rolled out Digital Cable and conviced you it was better for you than analog. I mean... Screw it. I'm going to screw you as many different ways that I can, including VOD.
The cable company is in the business of making money and has a history of implementing things to make their bottom line happy rather than their customers, since who else are you going to go to?
Have you even done any reading about it before mentioning it? MPEG1 is a compression scheme. MPEG2 is a compression scheme. MPEG4 is a compression scheme. MPEG7 and MPEG 21 are not. If my memory serves me correctly, MPEG7 is a Metadata description language and MPEG21 is a more holisitic solution incorporating MPEG7 and compression technologies.
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They are going to get the biggest lawsuit once "America Greeting" hears about this...
Um, That's what I originally said.
Uhhh, it's a flat rate fee per month, regardless of how many DVD's you get sent.
Not only are they keeping the people most likey to cancel happy, they are also keeping the people with highest profit margin happy (less rentals means less shipping cost to netflix). So if could be viewed as simply good business practices to keep the customers you make the most money off of happy.
For the unwary out there, parent post is full of crap. Ignore it.
The feature is named "Music & Photos". But it's actually "Music OR Photos".
So I can do Music and Photos at the same time? I think you meant: "Music XOR Photos"
There is no web server on a Tivo (unless you add one). The TiVo "phone home" to schedule the web recordings. For broadband users, this can be as often at every 15 minutes.
And on the same subnet! So you can't (easily) share between your home and your cabin, even if you own both devices.
Well, it worked for them once before. They excel at taking technical things and making them easy enough for every moron to use. They will sell this service to Joe Sixpack who wouldn't know how to hook up a Tivo. And they have at least one garunteed customer, Time Warner Cable. Any other customers are just icing on the cake.
Who do they own? TNT, TBS, CNN, HBO, TCM. And I'm sure there are more.
mod parent up! Unlike most of the other /. readers, this guy knows what he is talking about!
What you forgot is that AOL is really AOL-Time Warner, and they own most of the content providers! What are they going to do, blackmail themselves? Well, I guess there is disney, but it's only a matter of time until AOL buys Disney...
You would want to use a "deinterlace" filter to remove the interlacing from your NTSC source. You would want to use an "inverse telecine" filter to convert a movie (sourced at 24fps) that was shown on video (30fps) back to 24fps.
Who else thought this was going to be a discussion on the various benifits to 2 vs 3 vs 4 vs 5 vs 8 vs hard tabs? Boy was I dissapointed when I actually took the time to read the link.
Passing bad checks is illegal. Passing it across state lines has to worse. Possilby even mail fraud.
It is only a matter of time until AOL/TW sues itself.
You just need to write an obfuscator then, something that takes the inhouse code and changes variable names and adds bogus modules and subroutines.
I know developers who do this part without really trying that hard...
Hire a lawyer.
Really. Hire someone who knows what they are doing to put your wishes into "legalese" and have the company that you are working for sign the contract.
The U.S. Congress is located in the same town
And across the street from each other!
While I'm upset at the prospect of paying extra for something I'll never used when I buy my next TV (I have cable/sat. and have no use for an over-the-air tuner), but the fact that he wants to break all the current VCR's that exist. So rather than just forcing everyone to buy new TV's, they also want you to get a new VCR!
Actually, they would be selling them to the highest bidder (it's actually an auction). And use the money from the sale to help balance the budget deficit.
Let's see, what could it be used for (these are just off the top of my head):
- A dedicated range for 802.11b
- A dedicated range for WISP
etc. etc. (I got bored).