RF and S-Vid are disabled to keep non-HD users from getting the boxes just because they have more recording capacity than the normal SD DVR. These boxes cost too much to give them to non-HD subscribers.
VoD HD is coming very soon. The SA8000HD box can handle it and that has been the hold-up.
As for channels..bitch at your cable company. We get: Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, HBO, ShowTime, PBS, ESPN, DiscoveryHD, HDNet, HDNet Movies, INHD, INHD2....and I think that's it.
The reason that you can't use the s-video and/or RCA audio connections is they were disabled to keep non-HD users from getting the boxes. The boxes have a much bigger HD than the SD DVRs and cost a lot more due to the HD capability. Time Warner didn't want non-HD people saying they had HD just to get the boxes for the longer recording time.
Uh...I have the SA8000HD. It works just fine. No volume on the digital audio? Yeah. Know why? Cause you plug it in to a receiver that handles all that. Starts? Stops? Problems? Check your signal buddy. Mine is smooth.
HD is most certainly ready for prime time. Well over half of actual prime time is in HD. I can watch football all weekend in HD. I'll be watching Monday Night Football tonight in it. If anyone says there isn't enough HD content yet they are WRONG...or just mainly watch a channel that hasn't moved yet. If you watch the major networks they offer plenty of content.
I love my Thinkpad. I had a T30 before that stayed on 24/7 for over a year. The only time it was turned off was to/from vacation. The rest of the time it was a workhorse. Now I have a T42P and love it as much or more. Functional and VERY stable. Sure, it doesn't have some super new gizmos like others, but it works every time.
Every time someone asks me about a notebook I recommend IBM. They go out to Best Buy and get some other brand with 20 other options they don't need and then get mad when it breaks or isn't stable. Thanks IBM!
I have the Scientific Atlanta 8000HD from Time Warner. I believe that is the Comcast box they review, but ours doesn't have any ads nor any of the issues they mention. It doesn't have as good of an interface as Tivo, but it does the job. Two tuners, HD, PIP, nice.
If Tivo had an HD box that worked on TW I'd by it today, happily. I have Time Warner's Scientific Atlanta 8000HD box. It's a HD DVR. It's ok for the most part but the interface is way, way behind TiVo. No suggestions. I see every channel in the guide, not just what I subscribe to. It will record the same 40 episodes of South Park and fill up the drive if I don't watch it instead of recording each episode once. Doing a lookup (by name or whatever) is a bitch compared to TiVo.
I don't see these as that useful. Most car speedometers are way off. My Xterra reads 5MPH high. My Jeep Rubicon was 5MPH high stock but is now perfect with 33" tires. So you could speed AND still get the discount!
It's your ODBII scanner port. Usually it's right under the steering wheel above your knees. You can get all sorts of info off the onboard computer from it. I used to use the AutoTap product with my Corvette. It's also commonly used for inspection and testing now.
I know at least 10 people that "pirated" Doom 3. Then we all went out today and bought it when the store would finally sell it to us. Many, many people just wanted the game and it wasn't for sale yet.
It doesn't cost much to have a lot of storage. We need to move about 1.5TB of data between offices. To do that I built a system that we could just ship over and back. It's an AMD64 3000+ w/ a 3Ware 9500 8 port card and 8 250GB Hitachi SATA drives in RAID5. Total cost for everything was like $3K. That's a steal for 1.6TB of usable space.
I take courses online. I started at my local community college that does SOME courses and now go to Strayer. While most of them say they only do IE I've had no problems with Safari or FireFox.
I love my online classes. Most schools charge you the same as if you physically go, but I hate going to class. It's very hard to work all day and then be expected to show up at 6:30 across town. Also, community colleges get paid by attendance so you are REQUIRED to be there. I get paged in to work enough that I can't guarantee I'll be there enough.
I like F1, and Le Mans, but the problem most Americans face is that the races are on at like 3AM. I sometimes catch a race real late or maybe watch one on tape delay, but it just isn't the same as Live.
A better remote and discrete codes. If your TV doesn't support them, then add a better TV to the list. Most TVs now have seperate codes for Power On and Power Off, even if the stock remote only has one button.
My vote is for the Philips Pronto. I have the TSU-3000.
This topic comes up every so often. I can honestly say my workload hasn't decreased one bit even with easier to manage systems. Expectations continue to increase and new technologies are implemented. Over the last year or two we've seen a huge surge in wireless deployments, as one example.
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They get it, at least the street maps, from NavTech. NavTech is the same people that supply auto makers with software for the DVD navigation systems. It's not cheap for sure. I've also found it to be pretty outdated. I've had my Garmin GPS V+, which I love, for a while and have never seen the map software updated.
How much of that is tax? Take the tax away from the US price and the UK price and they even out. The money is just moved around to a different tax in the US.
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Milk prices are up due to a reduction in dairy cows. I read a good article on that the other day. Basically farmers are going away from dairy to other things that are more profitable and causing milk to go way up.
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Before them it was Netcom. There will always be someone.
RF and S-Vid are disabled to keep non-HD users from getting the boxes just because they have more recording capacity than the normal SD DVR. These boxes cost too much to give them to non-HD subscribers.
VoD HD is coming very soon. The SA8000HD box can handle it and that has been the hold-up.
As for channels..bitch at your cable company. We get: Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, HBO, ShowTime, PBS, ESPN, DiscoveryHD, HDNet, HDNet Movies, INHD, INHD2....and I think that's it.
The reason that you can't use the s-video and/or RCA audio connections is they were disabled to keep non-HD users from getting the boxes. The boxes have a much bigger HD than the SD DVRs and cost a lot more due to the HD capability. Time Warner didn't want non-HD people saying they had HD just to get the boxes for the longer recording time.
Uh...I have the SA8000HD. It works just fine. No volume on the digital audio? Yeah. Know why? Cause you plug it in to a receiver that handles all that. Starts? Stops? Problems? Check your signal buddy. Mine is smooth.
HD is most certainly ready for prime time. Well over half of actual prime time is in HD. I can watch football all weekend in HD. I'll be watching Monday Night Football tonight in it. If anyone says there isn't enough HD content yet they are WRONG...or just mainly watch a channel that hasn't moved yet. If you watch the major networks they offer plenty of content.
I love my Thinkpad. I had a T30 before that stayed on 24/7 for over a year. The only time it was turned off was to/from vacation. The rest of the time it was a workhorse. Now I have a T42P and love it as much or more. Functional and VERY stable. Sure, it doesn't have some super new gizmos like others, but it works every time.
Every time someone asks me about a notebook I recommend IBM. They go out to Best Buy and get some other brand with 20 other options they don't need and then get mad when it breaks or isn't stable. Thanks IBM!
I have the Scientific Atlanta 8000HD from Time Warner. I believe that is the Comcast box they review, but ours doesn't have any ads nor any of the issues they mention. It doesn't have as good of an interface as Tivo, but it does the job. Two tuners, HD, PIP, nice.
If Tivo had an HD box that worked on TW I'd by it today, happily. I have Time Warner's Scientific Atlanta 8000HD box. It's a HD DVR. It's ok for the most part but the interface is way, way behind TiVo. No suggestions. I see every channel in the guide, not just what I subscribe to. It will record the same 40 episodes of South Park and fill up the drive if I don't watch it instead of recording each episode once. Doing a lookup (by name or whatever) is a bitch compared to TiVo.
TiVo, please come take my money again!
I use the PageUp/PageDown keys a lot on my notebook...but it seems the cursor always gets hung up in a frame or on a graphic.
Any way to fix that?
The HP model will come with 1 year of free phone support where I believe Apple's is 90 days.
I don't see these as that useful. Most car speedometers are way off. My Xterra reads 5MPH high. My Jeep Rubicon was 5MPH high stock but is now perfect with 33" tires. So you could speed AND still get the discount!
It's your ODBII scanner port. Usually it's right under the steering wheel above your knees. You can get all sorts of info off the onboard computer from it. I used to use the AutoTap product with my Corvette. It's also commonly used for inspection and testing now.
I know at least 10 people that "pirated" Doom 3. Then we all went out today and bought it when the store would finally sell it to us. Many, many people just wanted the game and it wasn't for sale yet.
It doesn't cost much to have a lot of storage. We need to move about 1.5TB of data between offices. To do that I built a system that we could just ship over and back. It's an AMD64 3000+ w/ a 3Ware 9500 8 port card and 8 250GB Hitachi SATA drives in RAID5. Total cost for everything was like $3K. That's a steal for 1.6TB of usable space.
I take courses online. I started at my local community college that does SOME courses and now go to Strayer. While most of them say they only do IE I've had no problems with Safari or FireFox.
I love my online classes. Most schools charge you the same as if you physically go, but I hate going to class. It's very hard to work all day and then be expected to show up at 6:30 across town. Also, community colleges get paid by attendance so you are REQUIRED to be there. I get paged in to work enough that I can't guarantee I'll be there enough.
Hah! Make and Model of the PC? No way. IBM/Dell/Gateway change specific components all the time in a model of PC.
Yes. Like I said, tape delay. But that's not as good as watching live.
I like F1, and Le Mans, but the problem most Americans face is that the races are on at like 3AM. I sometimes catch a race real late or maybe watch one on tape delay, but it just isn't the same as Live.
A better remote and discrete codes. If your TV doesn't support them, then add a better TV to the list. Most TVs now have seperate codes for Power On and Power Off, even if the stock remote only has one button.
My vote is for the Philips Pronto. I have the TSU-3000.
I installed RedHat 9 on some PCs to donate to charity. The custom install with all groups unchecked was around 1GB. That's bloat.
This topic comes up every so often. I can honestly say my workload hasn't decreased one bit even with easier to manage systems. Expectations continue to increase and new technologies are implemented. Over the last year or two we've seen a huge surge in wireless deployments, as one example.
Built, not bought!
They get it, at least the street maps, from NavTech. NavTech is the same people that supply auto makers with software for the DVD navigation systems. It's not cheap for sure. I've also found it to be pretty outdated. I've had my Garmin GPS V+, which I love, for a while and have never seen the map software updated.
How much of that is tax? Take the tax away from the US price and the UK price and they even out. The money is just moved around to a different tax in the US.
Milk prices are up due to a reduction in dairy cows. I read a good article on that the other day. Basically farmers are going away from dairy to other things that are more profitable and causing milk to go way up.