Ease of use. User Interface design. Stability. Longevity (Tivo will be around long after SonicBlue goes under in a pile of lawsuits).
I've heard nothing but problems from Replay users. Yeah, it has some nice features that distinguish it from Tivo, but at least the Tivo works reliably!
And the non-subscription argument has *ALWAYS* been crap. Replay built the subscription cost into the cost of the box, Tivo spread it out monthly. But of course, you could have always gotten a Tivo lifetime subscription for $250 (which suprisingly enough, is the cost difference between a comperable Replay box...)
You can only move up so far as a coder. Once you reach a certain level, you've pretty much maxed out and need to move on to something else. But it doesn't have to be the dark side. System Design, "Chief Architecht", things like that. Still doing techincal work, but not coding. Rather, telling people what needs to be coded, and let them go off and do it.
What has he written, besides a "Letter to Hobbyists?". Come on, everyone knows he stole DOS. Maybe he wrote the BASIC interpreter, but he probably stole that as well...
Do you work for the RIAA? You both seem to think the same way.
Good companies react to changes in the marketplace and adjust their models to continue to make money. Other companies try to legislate around technology and forget that you can't un-invent something. Once the technology is there, you can shove the genie back into the bottle.
The networks will have to figure out other ways to make money. Either make the ads more entertaining (so you will stop and watch them). Or something else. Just because we're comfortable with the status-quo, doesn't mean that change is bad! Embrace Change! Hug a Penguin!
And even if for some reason the networks win their lawsuit, all it is likely to mean is that there will be a software update to disable whatever feature the court rules is illegal.
And you're stuck with a box that isn't as good as its competitors (Tivo)
I may give ReplayTV a slight advantage over Tivo because of the Commercial Skip and File Sharing features, but without those features there is no comparison. Tivo wins by a mile
The whole purpose of this is when you move to a different cable provider, you can use the same box and just get a different POD to decode the signal
According to the FCC, the Cable Industry had to have a working example by 2001, and they did (well, close enough to count). Hopefully we'll start seeing this make it to the consumer before the mandated 2005 date...
Series 2 Tivo's don't have SVIDEO out? My old HRD112 has S-VIDEO out. Of course, it didn't have a S-VIDEO connection from the digital cable box to it, so it didn't really matter (Why have a high quality output if you can't have the high quality input?).
Frankly, I sucked it up and switch to DirecTv with a DirecTivo. Dual Tuners, High quality. Everything about it rocks.
Dual Tuners on a standalone unit is just too hard to for normal people to hook up. Think about it. In the simples case (where the Tivo uses its own tuner/s to pick the channels), its pretty easy. Run the cable into the back, and inside the signal is split. What about if you have a cable box? Now you need a connection from the cable box, where's your other tuner going to get its input? Another cable box? Internal tuner? It gets pretty complicated pretty quickly. Not to mention the fact that they would then have to put another MPEG encoder chip in there and tuner hardware to raise your price.
Really, what they need to do is the same kind of deal as with the DirecTivo boxes. Combine the Digital Cable set-top-box with the Tivo. Then you could have easy hook up (only one cable in) and still get the increased quality and dual tuners pretty easily!
The new Tivo's also support getting channel information in-band from the Television Signal (played on the Discovery Channel late night) so you can keep your phone line open for important things, like ordering pizzas.
For those of you techincally minded folks, they have encrypted and encoded the guide data into the video stream, which you Tivo will record and decode. It will then call up (still need the phone line, just not as long) and (After confirming your account status) download the encryption key.
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I used to shop at Best Buy alot, because they always had good sales on things I like to purchase (music, videos, electronics, etc.). I couldn't leave there without something in my hands... I had a problem.
I don't know if its just me or what, but the store quality has declined. I've had rude store employees; I've had stupid store employees; I've been in Best Buy when I've known more about their sales then their employees. And don't get me started on their "Extended Warantee" program (you were just telling me how great this is, and now you're trying to convince me that its crap?)
It's a shame that there is really no other place to go to get "nice" electronic's at reasonable prices (plz. don't mention Circuit "I make stuff up" City...), at least hear on the Easat Coast.
So I guess I'm stuck with going to Best Buy and making sure to do my research before hand and not take any crap from their employees.
On the demonstration flight, a user of a Dell Latitude CPx found that the Web site of the Federal Aviation Administration popped up on the screen so fast that the system's performance was nearly indistinguishable from that of a desktop in a corporate office.
Man, if I only got 64kbps at my office, I would be talking to our network admin! 64 kbps reminds me of the days of sharing a 56k dial-up internet connection among 30 people. Now that was slow...
Yawn... Another/. knee-jerk reaction to not reading the article. The guy posting the poetry got an automated message because nobody was clicking on his ads! Helps to read the story before posting a response (or submitting the story, for that matter. Or posting the story, you hear my taco?)
Still free with a one year contract. Basically, its the grand-daddy of the Treo. Form factor is a bit bigger, no GPRS (ever!) but pretty much does everything else. Cell Phone, Palm Software, Internet Access. What more could you want? Plus, with the Prism, you've got color!
The e-mail came into my inbox this morning, I moved off of yahoo 30 minutes later. I get more e-mail addresses than I can use with my cable modem service, and my real address is just a forward service to being with.
It's a shame. I really liked their serivce and their integration with Yahoo Messenger. Oh well. Comcast will give me a webmail interface too.
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Ease of use. User Interface design. Stability. Longevity (Tivo will be around long after SonicBlue goes under in a pile of lawsuits).
I've heard nothing but problems from Replay users. Yeah, it has some nice features that distinguish it from Tivo, but at least the Tivo works reliably!
And the non-subscription argument has *ALWAYS* been crap. Replay built the subscription cost into the cost of the box, Tivo spread it out monthly. But of course, you could have always gotten a Tivo lifetime subscription for $250 (which suprisingly enough, is the cost difference between a comperable Replay box...)
You can only move up so far as a coder. Once you reach a certain level, you've pretty much maxed out and need to move on to something else. But it doesn't have to be the dark side. System Design, "Chief Architecht", things like that. Still doing techincal work, but not coding. Rather, telling people what needs to be coded, and let them go off and do it.
What has he written, besides a "Letter to Hobbyists?". Come on, everyone knows he stole DOS. Maybe he wrote the BASIC interpreter, but he probably stole that as well...
Do you work for the RIAA? You both seem to think the same way.
Good companies react to changes in the marketplace and adjust their models to continue to make money. Other companies try to legislate around technology and forget that you can't un-invent something. Once the technology is there, you can shove the genie back into the bottle.
The networks will have to figure out other ways to make money. Either make the ads more entertaining (so you will stop and watch them). Or something else. Just because we're comfortable with the status-quo, doesn't mean that change is bad! Embrace Change! Hug a Penguin!
And you're stuck with a box that isn't as good as its competitors (Tivo)
I may give ReplayTV a slight advantage over Tivo because of the Commercial Skip and File Sharing features, but without those features there is no comparison. Tivo wins by a mile
This may be a reality sooner than you think. The FCC (on direction from Congress) has mandated that the Cable Industry have an Open Cable Standard (suprisingly enough called OpenCable) that would allow you to purchase a cable box at BestBuy and bring it home (Amended Telecom Act of 1934, Section 624a, c.2.c). Your local cable provider would provide a POD (PCMCIA card) that would decode the signal and provide it back to the box to show on your TV.
The whole purpose of this is when you move to a different cable provider, you can use the same box and just get a different POD to decode the signal
According to the FCC, the Cable Industry had to have a working example by 2001, and they did (well, close enough to count). Hopefully we'll start seeing this make it to the consumer before the mandated 2005 date...
Here's a USENET Thread discussing the new features. There are also a few threads in TheTivo Community Forums discussing the same things.
Troll, Troll, Troll, Troll...
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Come on, everyone knew this was a joke.
Everytime something is posted about a Tivo, somebody always has to go and post how they could build it for cheaper/better/faster. Lighten up people!
Yes. Tivo even has a feature under each recoreded program called "Save to VCR" where you can move the program to VCR.
What it really needs is a "Batch Save to VCR" so I can select all the shows and just fill an 8-hour tape with them. Oh well..
Series 2 Tivo's don't have SVIDEO out? My old HRD112 has S-VIDEO out. Of course, it didn't have a S-VIDEO connection from the digital cable box to it, so it didn't really matter (Why have a high quality output if you can't have the high quality input?).
Frankly, I sucked it up and switch to DirecTv with a DirecTivo. Dual Tuners, High quality. Everything about it rocks.
Dual Tuners on a standalone unit is just too hard to for normal people to hook up. Think about it. In the simples case (where the Tivo uses its own tuner/s to pick the channels), its pretty easy. Run the cable into the back, and inside the signal is split. What about if you have a cable box? Now you need a connection from the cable box, where's your other tuner going to get its input? Another cable box? Internal tuner? It gets pretty complicated pretty quickly. Not to mention the fact that they would then have to put another MPEG encoder chip in there and tuner hardware to raise your price.
Really, what they need to do is the same kind of deal as with the DirecTivo boxes. Combine the Digital Cable set-top-box with the Tivo. Then you could have easy hook up (only one cable in) and still get the increased quality and dual tuners pretty easily!
The new Tivo's also support getting channel information in-band from the Television Signal (played on the Discovery Channel late night) so you can keep your phone line open for important things, like ordering pizzas.
For those of you techincally minded folks, they have encrypted and encoded the guide data into the video stream, which you Tivo will record and decode. It will then call up (still need the phone line, just not as long) and (After confirming your account status) download the encryption key.
John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer from the Penn Library.
Why not just read it using a PostScript viewer?
I used to shop at Best Buy alot, because they always had good sales on things I like to purchase (music, videos, electronics, etc.). I couldn't leave there without something in my hands... I had a problem.
I don't know if its just me or what, but the store quality has declined. I've had rude store employees; I've had stupid store employees; I've been in Best Buy when I've known more about their sales then their employees. And don't get me started on their "Extended Warantee" program (you were just telling me how great this is, and now you're trying to convince me that its crap?)
It's a shame that there is really no other place to go to get "nice" electronic's at reasonable prices (plz. don't mention Circuit "I make stuff up" City...), at least hear on the Easat Coast.
So I guess I'm stuck with going to Best Buy and making sure to do my research before hand and not take any crap from their employees.
BECAUSE IT IS SLOW!
1 sec, 2 sec, 3 sec, 4 sec, 5 sec, 6 sec, 7 sec, submit!
Man, if I only got 64kbps at my office, I would be talking to our network admin! 64 kbps reminds me of the days of sharing a 56k dial-up internet connection among 30 people. Now that was slow...
How dare Apple use Netscape in their ads when we all know they should be using Mozilla! Get with the program!
Bill Joy?
Yawn... Another /. knee-jerk reaction to not reading the article. The guy posting the poetry got an automated message because nobody was clicking on his ads! Helps to read the story before posting a response (or submitting the story, for that matter. Or posting the story, you hear my taco?)
Still free with a one year contract. Basically, its the grand-daddy of the Treo. Form factor is a bit bigger, no GPRS (ever!) but pretty much does everything else. Cell Phone, Palm Software, Internet Access. What more could you want? Plus, with the Prism, you've got color!
Or "Rate it" many times. There doesn't be anything in there to stop ballot stuffing!
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The e-mail came into my inbox this morning, I moved off of yahoo 30 minutes later. I get more e-mail addresses than I can use with my cable modem service, and my real address is just a forward service to being with.
It's a shame. I really liked their serivce and their integration with Yahoo Messenger. Oh well. Comcast will give me a webmail interface too.