Any reason why the upscaling has been limited to HDMI only? Upscaling of any Macrovision-protected content requires HDCP protection to replace it. This may extend also to CSS-protected content.
Yes, I am presuming that Macrovision protection doesn't exist on component video output, or at least not at HD resolutions. I am extrapolating from what I learned on an episode of DL.TV.
I cannot wait for Leopard to come out.... Neither can I: I preordered Leopard from Amazon.com today. Expected delivery is between November 12 and November 16, 2007.
That's part of the premise: they found a dangling pointer by the fact that the code crashed. So they know one exists, and have now found an easy way to exploit it reliably as a class of vulnerabilities.
Is it not fair for the person willing to bid the highest to end up paying the second-highest bid, on the grounds that the seller cannot get a substantially higher bid through competition between buyers? To discourage one rich developer from sniping the property with one outrageous bid and paying only the reasonable bid, how about selling it to him at the average of the two highest bids? (Second highest was $100, you bid $1,000,000 to assure you get it, you pay $500,050.)
You wouldn't happen to have Alltel service, would you? I've heard them try to BS a customer about it just like this, claiming a huge fine if they activate it. That's what got me curious in the first place.
but what's ridiculous is the fact that these products were ALREADY PURCHASED. Therefore the company has already made its bucks off of its products. Just not purchased for enough, and not from the right people.
They sell to a particular reseller at a lower price so that that reseller can still profit by selling it to the public at the same or higher price at which the supplier sells direct to the public. By selling it for less, the reseller sells more by volume and takes away sales by their supplier. Missed sales, failure to achieve their profit by what they consider "unfair" competition with the resellers, is seen as a loss by the supplier.
The supplier doesn't want to compete with the resellers to whom they give preferential pricing.
So on top of this minimum pricing, they also put in terms that say the reseller they supply cannot be a supplier to another reseller, as since the original supplier has no contract with the second reseller, they'd have no control over the second reseller.
Leegin establishes that the first and second reseller are conspiring to violate the supplier's contract and defraud the supplier, therefore the second supplier can be prevented from selling lower than the price between the supplier and the first reseller/second supplier. And that continues to the next reseller-supplier, and the next one, ad infinitum.
Thus the same logic that gives DRM a chain of trust and makes GPL'd software in TiVos unmodifiable on the platform has been extended to fixing prices of products.
Very soon the RIAA and MPAA will use it against the used CD and DVD markets and eliminate First Sale Doctrine. It will however fall short of affecting the used car market as people care more about cheap cars than they do about entertainment and there'd be a serious backlash against it. It's a toss-up whether it will affect the reselling of homes and other real estate.
A perfect digital copy of cable shows? Are you serious? Yes, the Series3 TiVo records the digital stream of digital shows. It's just as perfect as what they provide (barring signal loss along the way), and if they were able to sell you access to that stream, they'd rather be able to sell access to another person themselves than have you provide free access on portable media to the same quality signal. (And, unlike re-encoded analog signals, digitally recorded data streams still have 5.1 sound.)
Besides, my cable company has been too cheap to provide analog channels like Sci-Fi Channel in stereo sound. We're small enough to be subjected to buggy beta software in the cable boxes and cable DVRs (that may yet cost them their contracted monopoly with the city). I doubt they feel the need to invest in the hardware to decompress and recompress their digital offerings in real time for more bandwidth. There's still only a couple dozen 4-digit channels here and huge gaps in-between, and a lot of those 4-digiches are duplicate channels.
I'm a TiVo Series 1 user who doesn't consider anything on cable worth coughing up $30+/month for, so I get all the TV I need over the air. Given the imminent demise of free programing data for MythTV, and the continuing absence of those legendary digital-to-analog converters the Feds promised us, this may turn out to be my best option for when the analog transmitters go dark. If only I could transfer the "lifetime service" from my Series 1 to one of these... Still, it's cheaper to pay TiVo for an EPG than to subscribe to cable.
Let's tally this up:
You need free guide data for your MythTV box
You have a hackable Series1 TiVo
You have Lifetime Service on the TiVo
Maybe you should be looking into the option of ripping the guide data from the TiVo to feed the MythTV box. It's been awhile since I've rooted around in mine, but you might be able to modify a script used during the daily call to send a copy of the data it downloads to the MythTV box which parses the data and repackages it to its format before the TiVo purges the gzip files from the ext3 file system after moving them into MFS. The Series1 relies a lot more on modifiable Tcl scripts than do the newer units.
If you don't plan to use the TiVo to do any recording, you can easily lie about your lineup (e.g. tell it you have digital cable) to get the data you need for the MythTV box.
1. Also, CableCards seem to be really picky about how many splitters there are in the cable. My TWC really wanted the TiVo to be the only thing connected to the wall, but could tell from my setup that that simply was not feasible. I did determine that one splitter was blocking some frequencies and had to ditch it.
2. eSATA port is unconfirmed. (BTW, I hate that people selling cables try to sell "internal eSATA cables". I almost bought the wrong kind because they haven't learned that the "e" stands for "external".)
3. Even if you can't read the OLED display from across the room, you can still tell from a glance (on a unit not in Standby mode) whether what's recording on a tuner is a scheduled recording of yours or not (Suggestions are not named on the OLED; scheduled recordings are).
4. I wish earlier models included an Emmy symbol the year TiVo was awarded one.
I'm waiting for my $300 rebate, but I won't use it to buy another one. Eight TiVos are enough for me right now. (Heh, my first two 14hr Series1 TiVos also had $300 in rebates, making them cost -$0.01 after rebate, not considering taxes on pre-rebate price.)
Well with series 2 and tivo 2 go you can offload videos to your computer and back and forth with things like galleon.tv. Hopefully they keep this kind of functionality with series 3 lite.
Sorry, there's no TiVoToGo functionality on Series3 TiVos. CableLabs, responsible for certifying hardware that use CableCards, won't allow it.
At this price you think it would at least come with a DVD burner, like the Humax Tivo model I used to have
Not while the TiVo is dependent upon CableCards to record some channels. That DVD drive becomes a potential way for you to make perfect copies of cable programming on removable media. They can't risk some bug or exploit that could reclassify all-digital recordings from digitized analog recordings allowing unauthorized copying.
Keep in mind that the Series3 TiVo still doesn't have the TiVoToGo functionality to pull shows from other TiVos to the more-secure Series3 platform, and won't until CableLabs signs off on it. (Much like how DirecTV vetoed the same feature off their TiVo-integrated units.)
You aren't even allowed to share video podcasts between Series2 TiVos; each must subscribe to the podcast, multiplying the bandwidth consumption. Nor can you keep too many episodes of any one of them on your unit, or use the Save to VCR or DVD features. They suggest it is at the choice of the podcaster, but why is it that not one has elected to allow these operations?
(I have the current OLED Series3 TiVo. It is my eighth TiVo. The seventh was the Humax DVD recorder. The remaining 6 are split equally between Series1 and Series2 units. Two units are lifetime and I play $6.95 * 4 a month, the Series3 prepaid for 2 years. A 20hr Series1 has never been subscribed. Summer rerun season sucks.)
the 30 and 21 hours of HD quality recording really is a setback, but fortunately you can record programs at lower quality on the HD Tivo's.
Only as long as you have the alternative to record HD programs in SD quality on an alternate SD channel carrying the same content. HD can only be recorded in HD. Last I checked, HDNET had no SD alternative. Also, the PBS stations in my area have different programming on the HD and SD channels (e.g. Doctor Who is only on the SD channel).
There's also no IR or serial control by which to use a down-converting cable box on the Series3 platform. For cable programming, you either can record analog and unencrypted digital channels, or you use CableCards.
That reminds me of another great one. I got a copy of "Touch Typing of the Dead" out of the bargin bin for a dollar. Damn, I've been wanting to get that game. (I think it's just "Typing of the Dead" though.) Resellers on Amazon.com are asking $98.95 + $3.95 shipping for the Windows version, used. Looks like it would be cheaper to get a used Dreamcast with keyboard and, for $19.95, the Dreamcast version of the game.
However, if in the US, carriers will not sign up a phone that doesn't have GPS support for e911; it's a $10,000 fine if they do.
I discovered this when looking to get myself a new phone and wanting to give my mother my old phone (her first). My old number had to stay with the old phone because assigning a new number to the old phone would trigger that fine. Either that phone had to keep its number, I had to keep the old phone and gave her the new one, or I had to buy two new phones and retire the old one.
"Woah, I get it, I get it! Very cute! Whatever's on our hard drives. If we have a spam filter mentioning Cialis, Cialis ads will pop up and crush us, so empty your drives! Empty them all, we've only got one shot at this."
To qualify for the cap, broadcasters must work to ensure that stream-ripping is not feasible.
The article mentions the measures Net stations could easily take but have been reluctant to -- lowering bit rates
No, that makes stream-ripping undesireable. To make it infeasible you need to be like HDTV: increase the bitrate. 1920×1080p60 high definition video has a bitrate of 60 Mbit/s using current MPEG-2 compression technologies. 192 kb/s audio? Try 16 Gbit/s audio! Shove enough garbage data out of human auditory range in the stream that the end user can't keep up with a recorder, only push it to a device that can only output it.
And then you won't have to pay as much in royalty fees as you will be paying in bandwidth costs. Result, you still won't be able to afford to do business against the Big Boys.
The only thing I can hope for in the light of these royalty demands is that it will bring the radio drama back. Learn the foley arts, write some original scripts, and get some perfomers. Just make sure you use no music to set mood.
Unfortunately, regurgitating news and political opinions (is there a difference anymore?) is a lot easier, and thus more likely.
God what's it like to be so cynical? It's about having every chance to be pleasantly surprised and never being disappointed when you're wrong.
When submitting your content, you're giving up all your rights to it (including right of attribution), and making it exclusively the content of Rockstar to reproduce. You won't even have the right to reproduce the snippets you contributed.
They'll probably revoice it as well, so it won't even be your performance. Maybe they'll even change a word here or there to make it punchier. And without knowledge of all the submissions, how are you even to know they used your contribution and not someone else who came up with the same idea? You'll be wikified.
The MQ-9 Reaper is the Air Force's first hunter-killer unmanned aircraft. "Did you see this war?" "No. I grew up after. In the ruins... starving... hiding from H-K's." "H-K's?" "Hunter-Killers: patrol machines built in automated factories. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal."
"You stay down by day, but at night you can move around. You still have to be careful because the H-Ks use infra-red. But they're not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them. That's when the infiltrators started to appear."
You were right about Jeffrey Combs being the voice of the Scarecrow though, except that in "Nothing to Fear" of Batman: The Animated Series (and other episodes of that series), the Scarecrow was played by Henry Polic II.
Why stick so many ports (4x LAN, 10x SATA) on the motherboard? Is there a performance benefit to putting those ports there, instead of providing lots of PCI slots so you can create your own optimal mix of ports? Unfortunately, they don't go into much depth about the SATA features other than:
All of the nForce 680i SLI's inherent features are exploited on this board, so there is a wealth of USB and SATA connectors available (which support various RAID modes), but not all of the SATA ports are linked via a single controller. The 6 main ports are powered by the 680i chipset and support multiple RAID modes, but the purple ports along the bottom edge come by way of a pair of individual controllers and arrays can't be built across them; individually they do support two-drive RAID, however.
So you can do one 6-drive RAID and two 2-drive RAIDs, but not one 10-drive RAID.
What else were other comments about included cabling and eSATA backplanes. Their test systems only used one 10KRPM SATA hard drive.
And be assured you're going to see your name in the credits, both in the manual and in the ingame final credits. I wouldn't count on that. I'd expect that if they did request your name with your submission, it may only be to weed out any actual and unionized celebrities for whom such terms turning over their work for no pay would be null and void.
What exactly do you object to? I can understand "the exclusive right to copyright" bit, even though that means you can never reproduce your part of your participation again (you can never tell that joke again), but what about the "renew and extend such copyright" part (your great-grandchildren can never ever tell that joke either)?
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Yes, I am presuming that Macrovision protection doesn't exist on component video output, or at least not at HD resolutions. I am extrapolating from what I learned on an episode of DL.TV.
That's part of the premise: they found a dangling pointer by the fact that the code crashed. So they know one exists, and have now found an easy way to exploit it reliably as a class of vulnerabilities.
They sell to a particular reseller at a lower price so that that reseller can still profit by selling it to the public at the same or higher price at which the supplier sells direct to the public. By selling it for less, the reseller sells more by volume and takes away sales by their supplier. Missed sales, failure to achieve their profit by what they consider "unfair" competition with the resellers, is seen as a loss by the supplier.
The supplier doesn't want to compete with the resellers to whom they give preferential pricing.
So on top of this minimum pricing, they also put in terms that say the reseller they supply cannot be a supplier to another reseller, as since the original supplier has no contract with the second reseller, they'd have no control over the second reseller.
Leegin establishes that the first and second reseller are conspiring to violate the supplier's contract and defraud the supplier, therefore the second supplier can be prevented from selling lower than the price between the supplier and the first reseller/second supplier. And that continues to the next reseller-supplier, and the next one, ad infinitum.
Thus the same logic that gives DRM a chain of trust and makes GPL'd software in TiVos unmodifiable on the platform has been extended to fixing prices of products.
Very soon the RIAA and MPAA will use it against the used CD and DVD markets and eliminate First Sale Doctrine. It will however fall short of affecting the used car market as people care more about cheap cars than they do about entertainment and there'd be a serious backlash against it. It's a toss-up whether it will affect the reselling of homes and other real estate.
IANAL, so this is my layman's understanding of it all. If I got it right, that proves that you do not in fact need to be a Professor of Neomathematics to understand how the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, but is in fact totally bent.
Besides, my cable company has been too cheap to provide analog channels like Sci-Fi Channel in stereo sound. We're small enough to be subjected to buggy beta software in the cable boxes and cable DVRs (that may yet cost them their contracted monopoly with the city). I doubt they feel the need to invest in the hardware to decompress and recompress their digital offerings in real time for more bandwidth. There's still only a couple dozen 4-digit channels here and huge gaps in-between, and a lot of those 4-digiches are duplicate channels.
- You need free guide data for your MythTV box
- You have a hackable Series1 TiVo
- You have Lifetime Service on the TiVo
Maybe you should be looking into the option of ripping the guide data from the TiVo to feed the MythTV box. It's been awhile since I've rooted around in mine, but you might be able to modify a script used during the daily call to send a copy of the data it downloads to the MythTV box which parses the data and repackages it to its format before the TiVo purges the gzip files from the ext3 file system after moving them into MFS. The Series1 relies a lot more on modifiable Tcl scripts than do the newer units.If you don't plan to use the TiVo to do any recording, you can easily lie about your lineup (e.g. tell it you have digital cable) to get the data you need for the MythTV box.
But having units with Lifetime Service still qualifies you for discounted monthly service at $6.95 a month for additional TiVos on the same account.
1. Also, CableCards seem to be really picky about how many splitters there are in the cable. My TWC really wanted the TiVo to be the only thing connected to the wall, but could tell from my setup that that simply was not feasible. I did determine that one splitter was blocking some frequencies and had to ditch it.
2. eSATA port is unconfirmed. (BTW, I hate that people selling cables try to sell "internal eSATA cables". I almost bought the wrong kind because they haven't learned that the "e" stands for "external".)
3. Even if you can't read the OLED display from across the room, you can still tell from a glance (on a unit not in Standby mode) whether what's recording on a tuner is a scheduled recording of yours or not (Suggestions are not named on the OLED; scheduled recordings are).
4. I wish earlier models included an Emmy symbol the year TiVo was awarded one.
I'm waiting for my $300 rebate, but I won't use it to buy another one. Eight TiVos are enough for me right now. (Heh, my first two 14hr Series1 TiVos also had $300 in rebates, making them cost -$0.01 after rebate, not considering taxes on pre-rebate price.)
Keep in mind that the Series3 TiVo still doesn't have the TiVoToGo functionality to pull shows from other TiVos to the more-secure Series3 platform, and won't until CableLabs signs off on it. (Much like how DirecTV vetoed the same feature off their TiVo-integrated units.)
You aren't even allowed to share video podcasts between Series2 TiVos; each must subscribe to the podcast, multiplying the bandwidth consumption. Nor can you keep too many episodes of any one of them on your unit, or use the Save to VCR or DVD features. They suggest it is at the choice of the podcaster, but why is it that not one has elected to allow these operations?
(I have the current OLED Series3 TiVo. It is my eighth TiVo. The seventh was the Humax DVD recorder. The remaining 6 are split equally between Series1 and Series2 units. Two units are lifetime and I play $6.95 * 4 a month, the Series3 prepaid for 2 years. A 20hr Series1 has never been subscribed. Summer rerun season sucks.)
Cue the old saw about the best way to cook a frog.
"Give a man an inch and he thinks he's a ruler. Give him 12 inches and he is a ruler."
-- Marx, Groucho
Inch by inch....
There's also no IR or serial control by which to use a down-converting cable box on the Series3 platform. For cable programming, you either can record analog and unencrypted digital channels, or you use CableCards.
However, if in the US, carriers will not sign up a phone that doesn't have GPS support for e911; it's a $10,000 fine if they do.
I discovered this when looking to get myself a new phone and wanting to give my mother my old phone (her first). My old number had to stay with the old phone because assigning a new number to the old phone would trigger that fine. Either that phone had to keep its number, I had to keep the old phone and gave her the new one, or I had to buy two new phones and retire the old one.
That old number had a nice letter mapping too.
"Woah, I get it, I get it! Very cute! Whatever's on our hard drives. If we have a spam filter mentioning Cialis, Cialis ads will pop up and crush us, so empty your drives! Empty them all, we've only got one shot at this."
And then you won't have to pay as much in royalty fees as you will be paying in bandwidth costs. Result, you still won't be able to afford to do business against the Big Boys.
The only thing I can hope for in the light of these royalty demands is that it will bring the radio drama back. Learn the foley arts, write some original scripts, and get some perfomers. Just make sure you use no music to set mood.
Unfortunately, regurgitating news and political opinions (is there a difference anymore?) is a lot easier, and thus more likely.
When submitting your content, you're giving up all your rights to it (including right of attribution), and making it exclusively the content of Rockstar to reproduce. You won't even have the right to reproduce the snippets you contributed.
They'll probably revoice it as well, so it won't even be your performance. Maybe they'll even change a word here or there to make it punchier. And without knowledge of all the submissions, how are you even to know they used your contribution and not someone else who came up with the same idea? You'll be wikified.
"No. I grew up after. In the ruins... starving... hiding from H-K's."
"H-K's?"
"Hunter-Killers: patrol machines built in automated factories. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal."
"You stay down by day, but at night you can move around. You still have to be careful because the H-Ks use infra-red. But they're not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them. That's when the infiltrators started to appear."
You were right about Jeffrey Combs being the voice of the Scarecrow though, except that in "Nothing to Fear" of Batman: The Animated Series (and other episodes of that series), the Scarecrow was played by Henry Polic II.
What else were other comments about included cabling and eSATA backplanes. Their test systems only used one 10KRPM SATA hard drive.
IANAL, Hollywood or otherwise.