right....like 6,000 Nielsen families is truly an accurate system of rating a population of 300 million, and then some... Secondly, advertisers only care about people with money, and if you have disposal money enough to warrant purchasing a machine to organize your consumption of television, then those are the buyers advertisers are interested in.
$20 for a Belkin Ethernet to USB dongle works perfectly. You just enter the code where Tivo asks for a telephone number, plug the USB dongle into the Tivo's USB port, and restart the machine. It'll detect it the next time and make the "daily call" directly through the internet from then on. And then the "daily call" will take a minute or less generally over the net than the 20 or so minutes over POTS...
I said I hate Time Warner, the Time Warner side of AOL Time Warner. It was AOL that had the foresight to invest in TiVo, not Time Warner. AOL has bankrolled ICQ, Winamp, and Netscape/Mozilla, not Time Warner. Time Warner prior to the merger has often bedhopped with Microsoft.
Time Warner is the very reason why Sony controls the console videogame market. Time Warner chose to be passive investors in both 3D0 and Atari. So in the "next generation" console wars, instead of picking a clear winner, it hedged its bets as 3D0 tried to standarize the industry on its hardware platform while Atari showed up and blew it away. Had Time Warner simply ponied up the wasted money on 3DO and made it into a subsidy investment in Atari to bankroll the Jaguar as a CD based gamesystem from the start, Sony would've had serious problems in unveiling the Playstation. But alas, Time Warner played cautious and wound up with reduced stock value in both Atari and 3DO before they sold out. Time Warner is now doing this again by holding a 13% stake in Tivo but won't leverage its lead. They could do this by bundling Tivo into their Time Warner Cable settop boxes instead of purchasing inferior PVRs from Scientific Atlantic and now with this secretive project. This hurts Tivo. And what will happen is the bankrupt SonicBlue will sell ReplayTV and its IP to Microsoft who will then launch a new lawsuit challenge against Tivo. Advice to AOL Time Warner, scrap this stupid project, buy up Replay's IP, and make Tivo standard on your digital set top boxes...its not too late yet.
Uhm, let's see here. A slicker GUI (Tivo). More customizable controls regarding setting up "season passes." (such as distinguishing between first run broadcasts and repeats). A company that doesn't farm out its telephone customer support to India (like SonicBlue/Replay). The fact that Tivo will still be around in some form or another next year, versus a company being sued out of existence like SonicBlue/Replay... yep, those would be some of the reasons why Tivo is more popular...
And you can't beat FCC Chairman Powell's description of Tivo as "God's Machine."
As for sharing television shows over the internet with Replay, it is yet another worthless feature that is costing it unnecessary litigation. Sorry, but downloading something at a snail's pace does not appeal to me.
Yeah, and skipping 30 second blocks is as effective as that feature some tv's have that claim to lower the volume of commercials by dulling every piece of audio. I'd rather fast forward through commercials at 3x speed on Tivo than the 30 second commercial advance button that is going to cause SonicBlue to cease to exist thanks to the litigation it provoked. Then you'll see how useful your Replay TV is... Besides, Tivo hid that feature...it take 4 keystrokes to do it, but it is saving them litigation costs...
They shouldn't discount us Tivo owner/subscribers. We offer something to the broadcasters for free they aren't realizing. We offer realtime feedback for their advertising. Usually, they have to pay for this via market research studies. If an ad is unappealing to me, I skip over it. Tivo reports this. It also lets the broadcaster tailor their advertisements more effectively to the television show. For instance, Pepsi should not purchase time during "Buffy" on UPN to show their current "urban/hip hop" themed ad. It is the wrong demographic. It does not appeal to me and thus I skip it. Furthermore, Tivo itself grabs aggregate viewing data that I believe is far more realistic than the tyranny of the Nielsens. That is why I don't mind them monitoring my viewing habits. There have been too many quality shows cancelled because of what the idiot Nielsen families watch or do not watch... If a company creates a compelling ad, I won't skip it. Hence the success of advertising during the recent Superbowl. It was a total disappointment sportswise, but the commercials kept me watching. Funny how that happened...
Don't compare Replay to Tivo, please. Their guides and GUI does not compare to Tivo. Nice hardware, but the rest is lacking, including the corporation itself.
Replay killer? Nah, SonicBlue theirselves is competent enough in that regard. They should throw in the towel, do a cross-license of IP with Tivo, and then market their own licensed Tivo with added features like larger hard drives and ethernet built in that Tivo itself doesn't offer. Oh yeah, and that award winning technical service straight from India to boot! Sign me up! You know, I had a 25 second wait with Tivo's customer service line yesterday. Beat that, Replay...
what do you mean "the average AOL user"? My mom is afraid of even checking her AOL email but she uses her Tivo. I infact just bumped her up from her Series1 30 hour unit to the Series2 80 hour unit under Tivo's hush hush upgrade program... I would say Tivo is easier to use than AOL...
And this is not AOL's doing. This is the Time Warner end of the business. Why not just use TiVo in their set top boxes instead of wasting more money that AOL TW should be using to pay down its debt? This is borderline schitsophrenia (sic) because AOL itself owns 13% of Tivo stock. TiVo is going to be the standard PVR. Replay is bankrupt and still being sued by the whole broadcast industry. Time Warner Cable is idiotic. Why waste thousands of dollars per subscriber to run VOD when a PVR settop box is far more economical? Why would I pay $10 per month to watch the Sopranos any time I want when $14 per month to Tivo allows me to record any show I want to watch and view it at any time? Its just like that lame PVR Time Warner Cable currently offers from Scientific Atlantic. AOL TW should take the development money they are wasting on this and pump it into developing a dual tuner Tivo that is compatible with their cable networks? It makes the most sense and that's why they won't do it. At the same time, AOL is offering a Beta program for AOL subscribers who already own TiVo Series2 units to allow for online scheduling through your AOL account...as well as running AIM on top of network enabled Tivos. Where is the synergy supposed to be? If you ask me, its not AOL that's the problem, its the simpletons at Time Warner. You know, the same lugheads that greenlit "Battlefield Earth" and "Pluto Nash" which combined cost $200 million to make &that's not even factoring in the marketing costs. Way to go you idiots! Now just get it over with and cast Josh Harnett as Superman... Tools...absolute tools.
Why did they create another GUI for the C-64? The C64 and other 8bits had the third party GEOS around 1987. As for the Atari 8bits, I could see a way to hook up an RJ-45 cable rather easily. You'd just need a dongle or something that would connect the ethernet to the SIO port. After all, the SIO port was the forerunner to USB....and created by the very same engineer! The Atari Jaguar would be an interesting port...ethernet via the Catbox adapter...
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right....like 6,000 Nielsen families is truly an accurate system of rating a population of 300 million, and then some... Secondly, advertisers only care about people with money, and if you have disposal money enough to warrant purchasing a machine to organize your consumption of television, then those are the buyers advertisers are interested in.
$20 for a Belkin Ethernet to USB dongle works perfectly. You just enter the code where Tivo asks for a telephone number, plug the USB dongle into the Tivo's USB port, and restart the machine. It'll detect it the next time and make the "daily call" directly through the internet from then on. And then the "daily call" will take a minute or less generally over the net than the 20 or so minutes over POTS...
I said I hate Time Warner, the Time Warner side of AOL Time Warner. It was AOL that had the foresight to invest in TiVo, not Time Warner. AOL has bankrolled ICQ, Winamp, and Netscape/Mozilla, not Time Warner. Time Warner prior to the merger has often bedhopped with Microsoft. Time Warner is the very reason why Sony controls the console videogame market. Time Warner chose to be passive investors in both 3D0 and Atari. So in the "next generation" console wars, instead of picking a clear winner, it hedged its bets as 3D0 tried to standarize the industry on its hardware platform while Atari showed up and blew it away. Had Time Warner simply ponied up the wasted money on 3DO and made it into a subsidy investment in Atari to bankroll the Jaguar as a CD based gamesystem from the start, Sony would've had serious problems in unveiling the Playstation. But alas, Time Warner played cautious and wound up with reduced stock value in both Atari and 3DO before they sold out. Time Warner is now doing this again by holding a 13% stake in Tivo but won't leverage its lead. They could do this by bundling Tivo into their Time Warner Cable settop boxes instead of purchasing inferior PVRs from Scientific Atlantic and now with this secretive project. This hurts Tivo. And what will happen is the bankrupt SonicBlue will sell ReplayTV and its IP to Microsoft who will then launch a new lawsuit challenge against Tivo. Advice to AOL Time Warner, scrap this stupid project, buy up Replay's IP, and make Tivo standard on your digital set top boxes...its not too late yet.
Uhm, let's see here. A slicker GUI (Tivo). More customizable controls regarding setting up "season passes." (such as distinguishing between first run broadcasts and repeats). A company that doesn't farm out its telephone customer support to India (like SonicBlue/Replay). The fact that Tivo will still be around in some form or another next year, versus a company being sued out of existence like SonicBlue/Replay... yep, those would be some of the reasons why Tivo is more popular... And you can't beat FCC Chairman Powell's description of Tivo as "God's Machine." As for sharing television shows over the internet with Replay, it is yet another worthless feature that is costing it unnecessary litigation. Sorry, but downloading something at a snail's pace does not appeal to me.
Funny how the RIAA co-opted the business plan of the original DIVX for their online subscription-based music services...
Yeah, and skipping 30 second blocks is as effective as that feature some tv's have that claim to lower the volume of commercials by dulling every piece of audio. I'd rather fast forward through commercials at 3x speed on Tivo than the 30 second commercial advance button that is going to cause SonicBlue to cease to exist thanks to the litigation it provoked. Then you'll see how useful your Replay TV is... Besides, Tivo hid that feature...it take 4 keystrokes to do it, but it is saving them litigation costs...
Tivo is already the ultimate Linux-based PVR...
They shouldn't discount us Tivo owner/subscribers. We offer something to the broadcasters for free they aren't realizing. We offer realtime feedback for their advertising. Usually, they have to pay for this via market research studies. If an ad is unappealing to me, I skip over it. Tivo reports this. It also lets the broadcaster tailor their advertisements more effectively to the television show. For instance, Pepsi should not purchase time during "Buffy" on UPN to show their current "urban/hip hop" themed ad. It is the wrong demographic. It does not appeal to me and thus I skip it. Furthermore, Tivo itself grabs aggregate viewing data that I believe is far more realistic than the tyranny of the Nielsens. That is why I don't mind them monitoring my viewing habits. There have been too many quality shows cancelled because of what the idiot Nielsen families watch or do not watch... If a company creates a compelling ad, I won't skip it. Hence the success of advertising during the recent Superbowl. It was a total disappointment sportswise, but the commercials kept me watching. Funny how that happened...
Don't compare Replay to Tivo, please. Their guides and GUI does not compare to Tivo. Nice hardware, but the rest is lacking, including the corporation itself.
Replay killer? Nah, SonicBlue theirselves is competent enough in that regard. They should throw in the towel, do a cross-license of IP with Tivo, and then market their own licensed Tivo with added features like larger hard drives and ethernet built in that Tivo itself doesn't offer. Oh yeah, and that award winning technical service straight from India to boot! Sign me up! You know, I had a 25 second wait with Tivo's customer service line yesterday. Beat that, Replay...
what do you mean "the average AOL user"? My mom is afraid of even checking her AOL email but she uses her Tivo. I infact just bumped her up from her Series1 30 hour unit to the Series2 80 hour unit under Tivo's hush hush upgrade program... I would say Tivo is easier to use than AOL...
This is so stupid I bet Jamie Kellner thought this one up. Next thing you know, he'll instruct the WB Network to cancel "Angel"....
And this is not AOL's doing. This is the Time Warner end of the business. Why not just use TiVo in their set top boxes instead of wasting more money that AOL TW should be using to pay down its debt? This is borderline schitsophrenia (sic) because AOL itself owns 13% of Tivo stock. TiVo is going to be the standard PVR. Replay is bankrupt and still being sued by the whole broadcast industry. Time Warner Cable is idiotic. Why waste thousands of dollars per subscriber to run VOD when a PVR settop box is far more economical? Why would I pay $10 per month to watch the Sopranos any time I want when $14 per month to Tivo allows me to record any show I want to watch and view it at any time? Its just like that lame PVR Time Warner Cable currently offers from Scientific Atlantic. AOL TW should take the development money they are wasting on this and pump it into developing a dual tuner Tivo that is compatible with their cable networks? It makes the most sense and that's why they won't do it. At the same time, AOL is offering a Beta program for AOL subscribers who already own TiVo Series2 units to allow for online scheduling through your AOL account...as well as running AIM on top of network enabled Tivos. Where is the synergy supposed to be? If you ask me, its not AOL that's the problem, its the simpletons at Time Warner. You know, the same lugheads that greenlit "Battlefield Earth" and "Pluto Nash" which combined cost $200 million to make &that's not even factoring in the marketing costs. Way to go you idiots! Now just get it over with and cast Josh Harnett as Superman... Tools...absolute tools.
Why did they create another GUI for the C-64? The C64 and other 8bits had the third party GEOS around 1987.
As for the Atari 8bits, I could see a way to hook up an RJ-45 cable rather easily. You'd just need a dongle or something that would connect the ethernet to the SIO port. After all, the SIO port was the forerunner to USB....and created by the very same engineer!
The Atari Jaguar would be an interesting port...ethernet via the Catbox adapter...