mmm mmm mmm. gotta love the good old western union scam. i love seeing those on ebay. ranks right up there with those nice nigerian "rich ppl" that love me so much that they even offered to take some money in exchange for millions of dollars. It is wonderful knowing that this slashdotter is following in their footsteps
amazing! wonderful! simply the best thing on the planet! what is even better is that by the time that the damn chip is available to the consumer without buying a 2000 dollar computer with it, The new AMD will be out.
I agree. This file size is completely unacceptable. I find a few more faults that seem to spell failure unless they are looked at closely
1. File Size as noted above. I have used TiVo and have dabbed witht the other one, (Replay TV is the name i believe) and they use much less space with equal visual quality. and it is quite easy to upgrade HD when necessary.
2. Video Format. Unless you can burn the show onto a VCD and play it on your buddies 60 inch, MCE doesnt do a damn thing for me.
3. Complete failure of communication with ATI and nVidia. These two companies control almost all of the video card market. and as fasr as the all in wonder series goes, it is a damn good card for what al you get. Software based encoding is a much better solution and would only make MCE a stronger alternative
4. I already have a nice enough computer. If i want to make a TV Box, i will buy a shuttle and assemble it myself, use quality parts and then install hte OS myself. but that sems to be a problem since there is not going to be a consumer version of MCE. I mean, i love alienware and think their navigator pro media center is very nice, but i do not have that type of money flow and do not want to plunk down money for something i can easily do myself. If this is the same as windows XP with the adition of the media center, how hard woujld it be to sell it as an ujpgrade and let people work it out for themselves?
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mmm mmm mmm. gotta love the good old western union scam. i love seeing those on ebay. ranks right up there with those nice nigerian "rich ppl" that love me so much that they even offered to take some money in exchange for millions of dollars. It is wonderful knowing that this slashdotter is following in their footsteps
amazing! wonderful! simply the best thing on the planet! what is even better is that by the time that the damn chip is available to the consumer without buying a 2000 dollar computer with it, The new AMD will be out.
I agree. This file size is completely unacceptable. I find a few more faults that seem to spell failure unless they are looked at closely 1. File Size as noted above. I have used TiVo and have dabbed witht the other one, (Replay TV is the name i believe) and they use much less space with equal visual quality. and it is quite easy to upgrade HD when necessary. 2. Video Format. Unless you can burn the show onto a VCD and play it on your buddies 60 inch, MCE doesnt do a damn thing for me. 3. Complete failure of communication with ATI and nVidia. These two companies control almost all of the video card market. and as fasr as the all in wonder series goes, it is a damn good card for what al you get. Software based encoding is a much better solution and would only make MCE a stronger alternative 4. I already have a nice enough computer. If i want to make a TV Box, i will buy a shuttle and assemble it myself, use quality parts and then install hte OS myself. but that sems to be a problem since there is not going to be a consumer version of MCE. I mean, i love alienware and think their navigator pro media center is very nice, but i do not have that type of money flow and do not want to plunk down money for something i can easily do myself. If this is the same as windows XP with the adition of the media center, how hard woujld it be to sell it as an ujpgrade and let people work it out for themselves?