"It makes it a more flexible format. It helps open the door to content providers that would otherwise be scared off by online content."
Thanks for stating the real point of all of this. Everyone is so busy screaming at the top of their lungs that Microsoft and DRM and WM* is so evil that they forget that there is business behind all of this.
Wait 3 years until IPODs move to DRM-only formats and everyone here will forget exactly which bandwagon they were on...
if you have the google toolbar installed, there is a smiley and frowny face that supposedly affects page rank. Though I believe it only works with IE, you can still make your voice heard..
Yahoo has been planning on leavng for months now. They, like everyone else, uses Google until they *think* they can provide a better product.
RIght now, many retailers are pissed at Google as much of their shady tactics for improving page rank is now biting them in the ass. So it would make sense to me that Yahoo would choose now to break away - the news is bigger right now than it will be in a couple months when folks start getting used to the idea of Froogle.
Yahoo, while nice for providing free games and email, has always lacked inthe area of search (I am not saying categorical listings, just search) and until I see that they are doing something different, Yahoo will be playing secod (or third as MS rolls out their new search and stops using Google). I am sure AOL is trying to develop some new algorithms. Google is still the best search engine (IMHO) (with alltheweb doing well too) and the rest of these guys are trying to build a better mouse trap.
Many of us commute to work in a situation where we do not drive. I have a two hour round trip commute every weekday.
I also make a 16 hour round trip drive twice a month with my wife an child to her parents.
If I had any desire to maintain my video camera, I would NEVER use it to play back. Or rewind for that matter. The moving parts in a camera is what will break first. The more I move them, the sooner they break. I would rather maximize my camera by recording and playing back once into my computer.
Also, there is the coolness factor of having it, which drives most consumer sales over $300 - why do you think people get Ipods? Because they need to carry 7000 songs with them? I can burn mp3s on a CD-RW and slap it into my portable cd player which reads said media and have more than enough music for a couple of days. But Ipods elevate your social status with some, so many are willing to pay more than they need to to play back mp3s.
Will people watch video while walking down the street? Of course not. Will they watch while they are controling an automobile? Of course not.
Will they use this to show off the 5 minute holiday video they made of their kid? Definitely. Will they watch it while on a train, plane, passenger seat of a car, bus, waiting in the airport, while their wife continues to shop at the mall, waiting in line for their dry cleaning, grocery checkout line, bank line, ect? Will they bring along some porn in hopes they get to show it to their randy date? Yep. Will there still be people who will stare and come up and look and ask what it is? Of course.
Couldn't you have some sort of FTP client running in the background on startup or every 24 hours to a remote site? It could check for an updated file, automaticaly overwriting or skiiping as the case may be?
People tip wait staff because the restaurant industry started the trend by paying their wait staff far below minimum wage. People are willing (usually) to tip, so wait staff stays on working and the industry is willing to continue status quo.
Prove to me that Slashdot staff is working for $3.25 an hour and I will gladly buy a subscription. Until then, I will continue to consume my Slashdot information *free*. I would need far more value than an advanced look at other people's stories and no ads to pay for anything on the internet.
That said, I think it is sweet that readers feel good about themselves because they are giving VA Linux money.
actually, for those of us in the Northeast, it would be cool to vent it out to an ajoining room to get some of that heat. Maybe something with a valve to choose between heating up the apartment above me in the summer and my apartment in the winter.
What about sound? I have a dell poweredge and the thing is so loud it is unreal. It goes unused a lot because the noise makes it so that you can barely hear the phone ring right next to you. If I had closet space, I'd put it in there and try to worry about heat build up. But my closet space is hard to come by. I had thought of building a cabinet, but the problem of acsessibility AND heat is a huge speed bump in finding the right solution.
As a replaytv user, I WAS sweating it for a few minutes.
Now, low and behold, all new ReplayTVs are shipped with 3 free years of programming (as it seems a big barrier to purchase for any PVR is the activation fee(s). After 3 years, you pay $99 a month for the guide information.
Seems much better than $300 lifetime or $15 a month. I am seriously thinking about getting another new one.
And didn't Tivo piss their customers off enough in about 3 years ago when the Privacy Foundation discovered they WERE transfereing personal information (ie - what you watched) and also make it very difficult to figure out which parts of their privacy policy changes when they do make changes.
Before I start getting bombarded from Tivo users, please go to Google and search for "Tivo Privacy Foundation" for details.
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"If bands didn't get any substantial income from CD sales, why would they work so hard to get signed? "
Because when you get signed, you are a rock star, not just a garage band.
The phrase "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll" does not contain the word "money" or "rich".
Musicians - want to get your dues (like pro athletes)? Create a union and go on strike. Start reaping the benefits that your industry creates!
Regarding the single call to shut recording off, that is new to me and its great that Phillips is doing that.
But I have read articles where someone ran the daily update through their computer to sniff the packets. There is certainly personally identifying data that passes through. Without a doubt.
Now, maybe you and I still might not mind it.
TIVO also changes their privacy policy regularly - the one you see in your manual is definitively different than what is "active", which can be gotten from their site.
If they say they aren't tracking you specifically, they are lying. I know how valuable the information they are collecting is. Even if it takes them forever (or that they never) share that you, Cramer, are watching the knitting channel 12 hours a day and rewinding all of the Hello Kitty commercials to see them again, they still have that data.
And in a few years, you will certainly see ads embedded into your PVR that they feel you will be into. And they will have years of data to figure out what you want to see the most.
Now, like you, I am not necessarily against that. But they certainly aren't up front that they are doing that. And they are. You would if it were you. There is too much money at stake for a company in an industry that isn't quite kicking ass to give up. And I think ReplayTV does the same exact thing. If they are smart. And they are.
ah, but if you don't have anything to compare it to, you might not realize that digital cable does indeed suck. At least for me with Comcast. Their programing guide is one of the worst I have ever seen. I can not imagine who designed it. From randomly starting the guide at channel 2 (even if you are on channel 300) to the lag time, to the most useless way of browsing.
Thank god I have a ReplayTV. I have talked a number of people into buying a PVR/DVR and no one has ever thought it a bad idea in retrospect.
On a slightly off topic note, how can a site like Slashdot contribute to something like calling all PVRs "TIVO"? There is quite a bit of competition out there, and if it wasn't for Phillips marketing machine, it is very possible they wouldn't have the lion's share of the market.
ReplayTV doesn't sell your personal data, they sell themselves to a giant Asian firm. TIVO sells your personal data to Hollywood, they stay in business in the states. Regardless of feature set (which TIVO has played catch up with for a couple years now - in home networking, high speed internet guide updating, sharing shows with other similar units, the 30 second skip button, never mind the poor methodolgy in which TIVO picks shows for you to record. Yes, I know, TIVO seems a bit more solvent at the moment. Of course, it helps when you are in bed with Hollywood (why else do TV shows even mention the word TIVO at times?) Oh, and ReplayTV is less expensive.
OK, now TIVO users can mod me down because I mentioned TIVO's shortcomings.
But no matter what, buy a PVR/DVR - regardless of brand, it will change the way you watch TV. You will soon not know how you did without it.
Do you know how many times I watched Ed McCaferrey's leg (Denver Broncos) flap around like a piece of spaghetti when it broke last year? Or how about rewinding to that nipple shot you thought you just saw. Or how about hearing someone swear on Saturday Night Live. Or that Britney Spears Pepsi commercial durring the rbowl (which TIVO reported as the most watched and rewound commercial durring last year's superbowl)?
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"old station wagons appear to be moving 5-10 MPH slower than they actually are"
I use a similar theory when I drive to buy pot in my wife's Volvo.
What cop is going to stop a Volvo because it looks "shady"?
Of couse, everyone I've known who got busted for pot in a car was smoking it at the time. That's stupid.
Never smoke pot in your car unless you can immediately swallow whatever you have on you...
"It makes it a more flexible format. It helps open the door to content providers that would otherwise be scared off by online content."
Thanks for stating the real point of all of this. Everyone is so busy screaming at the top of their lungs that Microsoft and DRM and WM* is so evil that they forget that there is business behind all of this.
Wait 3 years until IPODs move to DRM-only formats and everyone here will forget exactly which bandwagon they were on...
if you have the google toolbar installed, there is a smiley and frowny face that supposedly affects page rank. Though I believe it only works with IE, you can still make your voice heard..
Does that mean they should sue themselves and forward the proceeds to ReplayTV?
"Google has become so invaluable to many people (like me) that they could probably raise just as much money with a blackmail scheme."
They have - its called Froogle and thousands of shady SEOs will be paying them in Adwords.
Yahoo has been planning on leavng for months now. They, like everyone else, uses Google until they *think* they can provide a better product.
RIght now, many retailers are pissed at Google as much of their shady tactics for improving page rank is now biting them in the ass. So it would make sense to me that Yahoo would choose now to break away - the news is bigger right now than it will be in a couple months when folks start getting used to the idea of Froogle.
Yahoo, while nice for providing free games and email, has always lacked inthe area of search (I am not saying categorical listings, just search) and until I see that they are doing something different, Yahoo will be playing secod (or third as MS rolls out their new search and stops using Google). I am sure AOL is trying to develop some new algorithms. Google is still the best search engine (IMHO) (with alltheweb doing well too) and the rest of these guys are trying to build a better mouse trap.
Many of us commute to work in a situation where we do not drive. I have a two hour round trip commute every weekday.
I also make a 16 hour round trip drive twice a month with my wife an child to her parents.
If I had any desire to maintain my video camera, I would NEVER use it to play back. Or rewind for that matter. The moving parts in a camera is what will break first. The more I move them, the sooner they break. I would rather maximize my camera by recording and playing back once into my computer.
Also, there is the coolness factor of having it, which drives most consumer sales over $300 - why do you think people get Ipods? Because they need to carry 7000 songs with them? I can burn mp3s on a CD-RW and slap it into my portable cd player which reads said media and have more than enough music for a couple of days. But Ipods elevate your social status with some, so many are willing to pay more than they need to to play back mp3s.
Will people watch video while walking down the street? Of course not. Will they watch while they are controling an automobile? Of course not.
Will they use this to show off the 5 minute holiday video they made of their kid? Definitely. Will they watch it while on a train, plane, passenger seat of a car, bus, waiting in the airport, while their wife continues to shop at the mall, waiting in line for their dry cleaning, grocery checkout line, bank line, ect? Will they bring along some porn in hopes they get to show it to their randy date? Yep. Will there still be people who will stare and come up and look and ask what it is? Of course.
what reason did you give for a new box? Just so when I call....
Couldn't you have some sort of FTP client running in the background on startup or every 24 hours to a remote site? It could check for an updated file, automaticaly overwriting or skiiping as the case may be?
per your comment, next up, RFID tags for CDs
Because then they don't have the chance to place tracking cookies on your box.
"If the demographic group has little disposable income, advertising time with that demographic just isnt worth very much."
What about ads for cigarette and scratch tickets? People with nearly no income seem to gravitate towards these products.
You forget the best *free* upgrade:
Three way with her hot friend.
People tip wait staff because the restaurant industry started the trend by paying their wait staff far below minimum wage. People are willing (usually) to tip, so wait staff stays on working and the industry is willing to continue status quo.
Prove to me that Slashdot staff is working for $3.25 an hour and I will gladly buy a subscription. Until then, I will continue to consume my Slashdot information *free*. I would need far more value than an advanced look at other people's stories and no ads to pay for anything on the internet.
That said, I think it is sweet that readers feel good about themselves because they are giving VA Linux money.
He uses the KY as chapstick. The beer is for lubricant.
"Is this something that will only lead to more credit card fraud, or will it provide more secure means of payment?"
I'm sorry. I used your speed pass for some free gas and I cant hear you over the pump noise.
actually, for those of us in the Northeast, it would be cool to vent it out to an ajoining room to get some of that heat. Maybe something with a valve to choose between heating up the apartment above me in the summer and my apartment in the winter.
What about sound? I have a dell poweredge and the thing is so loud it is unreal. It goes unused a lot because the noise makes it so that you can barely hear the phone ring right next to you. If I had closet space, I'd put it in there and try to worry about heat build up. But my closet space is hard to come by. I had thought of building a cabinet, but the problem of acsessibility AND heat is a huge speed bump in finding the right solution.
The helmet could also:
- Cut your hair
- massage your scalp
- screw HUD, feed you information directly into your brain Matrix style
yes - I meant $.99 a month.
99 cents.
As a replaytv user, I WAS sweating it for a few minutes.
Now, low and behold, all new ReplayTVs are shipped with 3 free years of programming (as it seems a big barrier to purchase for any PVR is the activation fee(s). After 3 years, you pay $99 a month for the guide information.
Seems much better than $300 lifetime or $15 a month. I am seriously thinking about getting another new one.
And didn't Tivo piss their customers off enough in about 3 years ago when the Privacy Foundation discovered they WERE transfereing personal information (ie - what you watched) and also make it very difficult to figure out which parts of their privacy policy changes when they do make changes.
Before I start getting bombarded from Tivo users, please go to Google and search for "Tivo Privacy Foundation" for details.
"If bands didn't get any substantial income from CD sales, why would they work so hard to get signed? "
Because when you get signed, you are a rock star, not just a garage band.
The phrase "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll" does not contain the word "money" or "rich".
Musicians - want to get your dues (like pro athletes)? Create a union and go on strike. Start reaping the benefits that your industry creates!
didn't mean to make that one anonymous. that last one was from me, just so you know who showed you whos boss.
Regarding the single call to shut recording off, that is new to me and its great that Phillips is doing that.
But I have read articles where someone ran the daily update through their computer to sniff the packets. There is certainly personally identifying data that passes through. Without a doubt.
Now, maybe you and I still might not mind it.
TIVO also changes their privacy policy regularly - the one you see in your manual is definitively different than what is "active", which can be gotten from their site.
If they say they aren't tracking you specifically, they are lying. I know how valuable the information they are collecting is. Even if it takes them forever (or that they never) share that you, Cramer, are watching the knitting channel 12 hours a day and rewinding all of the Hello Kitty commercials to see them again, they still have that data.
And in a few years, you will certainly see ads embedded into your PVR that they feel you will be into. And they will have years of data to figure out what you want to see the most.
Now, like you, I am not necessarily against that. But they certainly aren't up front that they are doing that. And they are. You would if it were you. There is too much money at stake for a company in an industry that isn't quite kicking ass to give up. And I think ReplayTV does the same exact thing. If they are smart. And they are.
ah, but if you don't have anything to compare it to, you might not realize that digital cable does indeed suck. At least for me with Comcast. Their programing guide is one of the worst I have ever seen. I can not imagine who designed it. From randomly starting the guide at channel 2 (even if you are on channel 300) to the lag time, to the most useless way of browsing.
Thank god I have a ReplayTV. I have talked a number of people into buying a PVR/DVR and no one has ever thought it a bad idea in retrospect.
On a slightly off topic note, how can a site like Slashdot contribute to something like calling all PVRs "TIVO"? There is quite a bit of competition out there, and if it wasn't for Phillips marketing machine, it is very possible they wouldn't have the lion's share of the market.
ReplayTV doesn't sell your personal data, they sell themselves to a giant Asian firm. TIVO sells your personal data to Hollywood, they stay in business in the states. Regardless of feature set (which TIVO has played catch up with for a couple years now - in home networking, high speed internet guide updating, sharing shows with other similar units, the 30 second skip button, never mind the poor methodolgy in which TIVO picks shows for you to record. Yes, I know, TIVO seems a bit more solvent at the moment. Of course, it helps when you are in bed with Hollywood (why else do TV shows even mention the word TIVO at times?) Oh, and ReplayTV is less expensive.
OK, now TIVO users can mod me down because I mentioned TIVO's shortcomings.
But no matter what, buy a PVR/DVR - regardless of brand, it will change the way you watch TV. You will soon not know how you did without it.
Do you know how many times I watched Ed McCaferrey's leg (Denver Broncos) flap around like a piece of spaghetti when it broke last year? Or how about rewinding to that nipple shot you thought you just saw. Or how about hearing someone swear on Saturday Night Live. Or that Britney Spears Pepsi commercial durring the rbowl (which TIVO reported as the most watched and rewound commercial durring last year's superbowl)?