Since they started showing Season 1 on UHD, they've been advertising Season 2 the entire time. They even show the last episodes cliff-hanger in the damn advertisement and it hasn't even aired yet!!
HDTV's can be bought for around $400 now. The huge 50"+ ones are just over a grand now, instead of five. Hell, they sell more HDTVs at your local Best Buy than they do crappy 4:3 sets. Pretty soon you wont even be able to get a non-HDTV set. I really don't know what you mean by "reasonable" - Do you mean FREE? Because I keep saying people say "If they weren't so much, id go buy one..".. THEY HAVEN'T COST A LOT FOR THE PAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS. GO BUY TWO OR THREE ALREADY! Yeeesh!
I've got a series 1 tivo and the service has always had a recommendation page that lists programs it thinks you will like. It's always done this. I dont understand why by default it automatically records these, but I also turned this off right away. Why bother using up space when you can just browse the list by hand.
PS3 = End of 2006. HD-DVD players in 3 months!
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By the time PS3 is released the format war will be over. HD-DVD players are set to hit the store shelves along with dual format HD-DVDs that will be backwards compatable in normal DVD players sometime in June/July. No one knows when the first Blu-Ray players will be available, or the movies. HD-DVD plans to open up with over 250 titles right off the bat. IN A FEW MONTHS. People with HDTV's are DYING FOR CONTENT right now since cable companies are too busy bickering over who gets paid to broadcast what with HDTV channels. When HD-DVD is released first in a few months, you can bet nearly every single HDTV owner is going to snatch these suckers up.
Being a Charter subscriber and a long time Tivo owner (5-6 years) I was first in line to get a Moxi because it includes HDTV recording. Something my Tivo does not.
First of all, the TV guide layout is horrible. It only shows the next three shows on each channel and you scroll through, unlike Tivo where it shows you the next 12 or so at a glance. You can also go back a day or so on the Tivo to see what you missed. You can't on the Moxi. The program descriptions on the Moxi are one or two sentences, where the Tivo has an entire paragraph with star ratings, content advisories, directors, actors, if it was a repeat, what format it is in, etc. Moxi again, has a brief and often unusable description.
Second, the analogue recording of the Moxi is messed up. It's like watching TV during a really bad thunderstorm ALL THE TIME. It's because their compression from analogue to digital jsut plain SUCKS and it's a known problem on all the supported Moxi forums. They specifically said there will never be a work around for this. This could be why Charter is on such a push to get everything converted to digital by the end of this year. With this Moxi box, you simply can't watch any channels under 100. It's all static snow.
The season pass that Tivo is so well known for is again, horrible, on the Moxi. It records new episodes, regardless if they are repeats. Meaning, if you want to record CSI Miami, it will record all the new episodes along with all the ones in SYNDICATION on other channels! You cannot stop it from doing this because it see's them as new episodes because you haven't seen them yet, even thought they might be 3 years old! This again, was a known issue, and has been promised to be fixed sometime this year. I had my Moxi last year. I don't know if they've fixed it by now or not, but it made watching my favorite shows not happen.
The original poster doesn't know why anyone would still want a Tivo? Simply because their SOFTWARE destroys their competition. It is, and will probably always be in the forseeable future, the best of its kind.
I have to find a way to get my city to dump Charter and the Moxi and get Comcast.
DirecTV is a grain of sand compared to the beach that is known as Comcast. Not much better off? Man, you give satellite TV too much credit. Sure, it's pretty popular, but its like saying the OSX market share is comparable to Windows. Yikes.
What is the easiest way to get my city to switch cable providers? Charter has a signed deal with my city to be the only provider for years and year... This really blows. The Moxi box is just so horrible compared to Tivo..
You want to be doing what you want to do on your own time. Regardless how easy and relaxed or fulfilling your job may be. Humans were not put on the planet to work. They were put here to do whatever it is that they want to do. When robots evolve to the point where no one has to work anymore, then we will probably know what it is like to live once again.
Moral or not, i'm glad that security yanked his ass off the flight. I don't care who you are, you rock the boat, you get to swim home. If you don't act like a typical "sheep", don't expect to become part of the herd. It's the way the airlines run now, like it or not. Checks and balances and all that.
I have paid my Tivo subscription for 6 years.
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I could have bought a lifetime subscription for a measly $150 back in the day. Why do I keep paying? Because it is worth every single penny of every single month I pay this. Their programming guide info is so accurate, so so complete that anyone trying to compare it to the other PVRs out there (I have tried nearly all of them) is just absolutely nuts. The charm of the Tivo is not just its elegant interface, but the absolute detail of their guide data. They provide every bit of detail you need to find your shows, with very long descriptions and rating schemes. Most of their competitors only have two or three sentences max for each show listing. Tivo usually has an entire paragraph filled with actors, ratings, content type, repeat info and so much more.
Their competetition can keep putting out new DVRs, but as long as they're a pile of crud, i'll stick with my Tivo until the end of time. An HD PVR with really crummy guide data is entirely useless to me.
If there is ever a cause for a state to go after fraud, its after Credit Cards. All that fine print usually invalidates anything you can do.. Miss a bill on your car payment even tho its not on your credit card bill? They raise the rates to 25%.
The XBox2 probably WONT have HD-DVD this time according to latest rumors.
Dreamcast didn't have DVD. Same boat.
XBox2 will be released only a few (3-6) months before the PS3 is released in Japan. It will carry Blu-Ray, which is just like the PS2 using DVD as its medium. It will "one up" the XBox2 bigtime. Same boat.
The XBox2 will more than likely NOT have backwards compatability. The processor AND graphics processor are so different it isn't even funny. I suppose they could do a dual chipset box, but short of that, I dont think we'll see much compatability.
It looks to me like XBox2 is headed to the Dreamcast way. Certainly E3 or before will clear this all up.. But it will be hard.. Even moreso now that GTA4 has been announced as an exclusive for PS3 already.
I'm sorry, but no, you can't. MAC Addresses can also be changed and spoofed as well. Nothing in the land of IP is ever 100%. Sure, you can say 99%, but never, ever 100% - Which is what you need for solid evidence. It's the same as a witness sitting on a stand and saying he saw an asian shoot someone, but couldn't tell exactly who it was.
They can be easily spoofed and never 100% accurate.
It's like saying a guy in a blue car robbed a store and arresting a guy driving the first blue car you see on the road. You just can't do it. You need to be completely specific of who the person was who robbed the store and also have the proof they did it. So unless they're busting down your doors and taking your movie collection while you're torrenting a movie I dont see how ANY of these lawsuits can ever win. IP Addresses are simply NOT ACCURATE to accuse people of crimes.
Since both of these OS's are pretty much going to be running over 3D acceleration with glossy effects on every window, would this benefit both of these OS's? People mention this processor wont speed up your normal desktop stuff, only big 3D apps and whatnot. Well, all the next gen desktops ARE big 3D apps for the most part now.
Apple will probably be the first true PC to actually start using it, and then Microsoft will need to port their OS to compete. Makers like Dell and such will probably go out of business as an entire industry will be turned completely upside down. It's that revolutionary.
It's simply not enough for a portable system no matter how cool the games might be. You need to be able to play it on long flights or trips, or without being chained to a wall socket.
Yes, I know you can dim the screen, turn the volume down, whatever to make it last longer, but it's crazy talk suggesting someone does this to get an extra hour out of a system.
Do you know how many Gameboys are out there being used? Have you looked at how much space Gameboys take up compared to your average console? Very few? I dont think you realise how huge of a market handheld gaming is, and how much cash Nintendo makes from it.
The encoding quality on everything makes it all but unwatchable. Imagine watching a recorded show on Tivo with the lowest quality settings, and then double the the pixelization. That's VOD. It's something I can live without. And since I have a Tivo, why would I need to go back and look at movies that i've already recorded when they originally aired? It's a bit pointless at this day and age.
Moxi is absolutely terrible compared to Tivo.
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I had mine for a week, and I can say without a doubt, there is no competition for Tivo from these guys. The video encoding quality is TERRIBLE, and is a known issue. The main Moxi guy posts on some of the forums and says this will never change. Their season passes are broken, as they see "first runs" as any show YOU haven't recorded before, even if its from 2001 and a repeat. Their show descriptions are the worst part, its usually TWO sentences describing the show, compared to an entire paragraph from Tivo! They dont let you know if there is any Violent, Nudity, Adult Content, etc in the program either! The GUI looks nice, but it really isn't usable at all. On Tivo, you can see 12 stations down the left side, and to the right, you can see the next 12 upcoming shows for each channel in advance, with the Moxi, you get to see THREE! THREE!
I'm very suprised you haven't sent that piece if junk back yet. Reading most of the forums, pretty much everyone feels the same way. Moxi is hopeless.
You still dont end up with Tivo listings.
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Which is the best part about the entire device. Their show listings simply destroy anything from the competition, and provide far more accurate and detailed ratings, actors, directors, year, etc etc etc.
That's why the dual tuner HDTivo coming out next year has two CableCARD slots. I checked with Charter and they only charge $1.50 / Month per card. Not bad. Now if Tivo would just release this damn thing out RIGHT NOW the balance would be restored and Tivo would be back on top.
Most of us dont want two way CableCARDs. We dont care for PPV, VOD, or goofly little cardgames. We just want our HDTV going right into our Tivo season passes. While those features are "ok", they do not make or break a product at this point. Cable DVRs are SO CRAPPY right now that Tivo really needs to capitalize in this market and get with the program.
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Since they started showing Season 1 on UHD, they've been advertising Season 2 the entire time. They even show the last episodes cliff-hanger in the damn advertisement and it hasn't even aired yet!!
HDTV's can be bought for around $400 now. The huge 50"+ ones are just over a grand now, instead of five. Hell, they sell more HDTVs at your local Best Buy than they do crappy 4:3 sets. Pretty soon you wont even be able to get a non-HDTV set. I really don't know what you mean by "reasonable" - Do you mean FREE? Because I keep saying people say "If they weren't so much, id go buy one.." .. THEY HAVEN'T COST A LOT FOR THE PAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS. GO BUY TWO OR THREE ALREADY! Yeeesh!
They simply license out the technology for each unit sold. Tivo already owns a billion + 5 patents on DVRs as it is. This is just a couple more.
I've got a series 1 tivo and the service has always had a recommendation page that lists programs it thinks you will like. It's always done this. I dont understand why by default it automatically records these, but I also turned this off right away. Why bother using up space when you can just browse the list by hand.
By the time PS3 is released the format war will be over. HD-DVD players are set to hit the store shelves along with dual format HD-DVDs that will be backwards compatable in normal DVD players sometime in June/July. No one knows when the first Blu-Ray players will be available, or the movies. HD-DVD plans to open up with over 250 titles right off the bat. IN A FEW MONTHS. People with HDTV's are DYING FOR CONTENT right now since cable companies are too busy bickering over who gets paid to broadcast what with HDTV channels. When HD-DVD is released first in a few months, you can bet nearly every single HDTV owner is going to snatch these suckers up.
First of all, the TV guide layout is horrible. It only shows the next three shows on each channel and you scroll through, unlike Tivo where it shows you the next 12 or so at a glance. You can also go back a day or so on the Tivo to see what you missed. You can't on the Moxi. The program descriptions on the Moxi are one or two sentences, where the Tivo has an entire paragraph with star ratings, content advisories, directors, actors, if it was a repeat, what format it is in, etc. Moxi again, has a brief and often unusable description.
Second, the analogue recording of the Moxi is messed up. It's like watching TV during a really bad thunderstorm ALL THE TIME. It's because their compression from analogue to digital jsut plain SUCKS and it's a known problem on all the supported Moxi forums. They specifically said there will never be a work around for this. This could be why Charter is on such a push to get everything converted to digital by the end of this year. With this Moxi box, you simply can't watch any channels under 100. It's all static snow.
The season pass that Tivo is so well known for is again, horrible, on the Moxi. It records new episodes, regardless if they are repeats. Meaning, if you want to record CSI Miami, it will record all the new episodes along with all the ones in SYNDICATION on other channels! You cannot stop it from doing this because it see's them as new episodes because you haven't seen them yet, even thought they might be 3 years old! This again, was a known issue, and has been promised to be fixed sometime this year. I had my Moxi last year. I don't know if they've fixed it by now or not, but it made watching my favorite shows not happen.
The original poster doesn't know why anyone would still want a Tivo? Simply because their SOFTWARE destroys their competition. It is, and will probably always be in the forseeable future, the best of its kind.
I have to find a way to get my city to dump Charter and the Moxi and get Comcast.
DirecTV is a grain of sand compared to the beach that is known as Comcast. Not much better off? Man, you give satellite TV too much credit. Sure, it's pretty popular, but its like saying the OSX market share is comparable to Windows. Yikes.
What is the easiest way to get my city to switch cable providers? Charter has a signed deal with my city to be the only provider for years and year... This really blows. The Moxi box is just so horrible compared to Tivo..
You want to be doing what you want to do on your own time. Regardless how easy and relaxed or fulfilling your job may be. Humans were not put on the planet to work. They were put here to do whatever it is that they want to do. When robots evolve to the point where no one has to work anymore, then we will probably know what it is like to live once again.
Moral or not, i'm glad that security yanked his ass off the flight. I don't care who you are, you rock the boat, you get to swim home. If you don't act like a typical "sheep", don't expect to become part of the herd. It's the way the airlines run now, like it or not. Checks and balances and all that.
Their competetition can keep putting out new DVRs, but as long as they're a pile of crud, i'll stick with my Tivo until the end of time. An HD PVR with really crummy guide data is entirely useless to me.
If there is ever a cause for a state to go after fraud, its after Credit Cards. All that fine print usually invalidates anything you can do.. Miss a bill on your car payment even tho its not on your credit card bill? They raise the rates to 25%.
Dreamcast didn't have DVD. Same boat.
XBox2 will be released only a few (3-6) months before the PS3 is released in Japan. It will carry Blu-Ray, which is just like the PS2 using DVD as its medium. It will "one up" the XBox2 bigtime. Same boat.
The XBox2 will more than likely NOT have backwards compatability. The processor AND graphics processor are so different it isn't even funny. I suppose they could do a dual chipset box, but short of that, I dont think we'll see much compatability.
It looks to me like XBox2 is headed to the Dreamcast way. Certainly E3 or before will clear this all up.. But it will be hard.. Even moreso now that GTA4 has been announced as an exclusive for PS3 already.
I'm sorry, but no, you can't. MAC Addresses can also be changed and spoofed as well. Nothing in the land of IP is ever 100%. Sure, you can say 99%, but never, ever 100% - Which is what you need for solid evidence. It's the same as a witness sitting on a stand and saying he saw an asian shoot someone, but couldn't tell exactly who it was.
They can be easily spoofed and never 100% accurate. It's like saying a guy in a blue car robbed a store and arresting a guy driving the first blue car you see on the road. You just can't do it. You need to be completely specific of who the person was who robbed the store and also have the proof they did it. So unless they're busting down your doors and taking your movie collection while you're torrenting a movie I dont see how ANY of these lawsuits can ever win. IP Addresses are simply NOT ACCURATE to accuse people of crimes.
No?
Apple will probably be the first true PC to actually start using it, and then Microsoft will need to port their OS to compete. Makers like Dell and such will probably go out of business as an entire industry will be turned completely upside down. It's that revolutionary.
Not only that, but quite a few different companies in addition as well. So no, I dont think this is some goofyhype machine. IBM doesn't act that way.
Nuff said. I dunno how Microsoft and Nintendo will be able to compete...
Yes, I know you can dim the screen, turn the volume down, whatever to make it last longer, but it's crazy talk suggesting someone does this to get an extra hour out of a system.
Do you know how many Gameboys are out there being used? Have you looked at how much space Gameboys take up compared to your average console? Very few? I dont think you realise how huge of a market handheld gaming is, and how much cash Nintendo makes from it.
The encoding quality on everything makes it all but unwatchable. Imagine watching a recorded show on Tivo with the lowest quality settings, and then double the the pixelization. That's VOD. It's something I can live without. And since I have a Tivo, why would I need to go back and look at movies that i've already recorded when they originally aired? It's a bit pointless at this day and age.
I'm very suprised you haven't sent that piece if junk back yet. Reading most of the forums, pretty much everyone feels the same way. Moxi is hopeless.
Which is the best part about the entire device. Their show listings simply destroy anything from the competition, and provide far more accurate and detailed ratings, actors, directors, year, etc etc etc.
Most of us dont want two way CableCARDs. We dont care for PPV, VOD, or goofly little cardgames. We just want our HDTV going right into our Tivo season passes. While those features are "ok", they do not make or break a product at this point. Cable DVRs are SO CRAPPY right now that Tivo really needs to capitalize in this market and get with the program.