Yeah, and that's been such a problem... oh, wait, it has never once been an issue for me, or most users. And it is also unique to TiVo, no one using any other device has ever run into Macrovision - wait, no, some PC capture card users reported flags too. Could it be that pretty much every recording device sold has exactly the same software?
This is just a red herring and people who don't know what they're talking about always bring this up. It is reality for the industry. If you want to avoid it build your own box - and make sure the cards you using don't implement it.
So far the times that this has popped up it has been an error in the source - stations inappropriately adding the flag, etc. And it has been resolved.
True, some backdoor features were removed - or made harder to access. Some of the backdoor features are still in there, but you need to binary edit the software to enable them. I used to use some of the backdoors, but I haven't bothered to enable them since 3.x. I think the features that have been added more than offset the things that were 'lost'. Teach TiVo was interesting to play with, but I can see why it was never finished, it was really for just a handful of users. TiVo's philosophy has always been to keep things simple for the average user. I have an infamously long RFE list that has a reputation, even within TiVo, so I'm not shy about asking for new features. But I've been a happy user for years, and I look forward to the Series3.
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Yeah, that was one of TiVo's earliest TV spots. One of the guys was Joe Montana and the guy with the itch was Ronnie Lott - both retired from the SF 49ers.
Like most things in life, some people like it, some people don't. But I can say that I've seen it posted all over the place already, and there are a lot of discussions around the net. So it has been doing a pretty good job of getting attention. Lots of little blogs that normally never mention TiVo suddenly have entries about the video, and all the blogs that do normally cover TiVo have it, of course. So it is putting the name out there to more people than normal.
Funny, I've had TiVo over 4.5 years and I don't recall ever losing any features in an update. More urban legends. Quite the contrary, my units keep getting new features.
The forthcoming Series3 will have a decoder that does MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/WM9. Whether or not the software is enabled for the new formats, we'll have to see.
SPS30S actually. Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select toggles the 30-second skip functionality on/off. I love it, and I've been using it for years, but, believe it or not, some people actually prefer the default skip-to-end functionality of the button. To each his own I suppose.
SPS9S is another one - it turns on an on-screen clock and elapsed time indicator in the lower-right corner of the screen.
While it doesn't work the way it was shown in the video, you *can* transfer video from a PC (Mac, Linux box, whatever) to a TiVo over a network. It just needs to be in the correct MPEG-2 format. TiVo Desktop on Windows supports it natively. TiVo Desktop on Mac supports it as a hidden feature. And 3rd party applications like Galleon (which is Java and runs most anywhere) also supports it. It is a sub-feature of TiVoToGo, generally called TiVoToComeBack.
The PC shows up as another entry in the TiVo's Now Playing List, similar to how other TiVo's show up for Multi-Room Viewing.
Just to note, the external walls of the WTC were, in fact, load bearing. It was a revolutionary structure designed to maximize open space. Unlike most skyscrapers, which have curtain walls, the WTC's outer walls carried a significant portion of the buildings load. The floors were carried by beams that spanned the gap from the central column to the walls. As those beams were softened by the heat they pulled on the outer walls and the core.
The design of the building was DIRECTLY related to the collapse. One of the main reason the WTC collapsed while other buildings have not is the way the structure distributed load and how it reacted to this failure mode. The fire alone wouldn't have been enough to bring it down, most likely. And if the aircraft hadn't hit then the spray-on fire insulation wouldn't have been blown off the beams. And the sprinklers would've still worked. Etc. The combination of the fire AND the weakened structure is what did it.
Many of your arguments are bogus. These are not the only buildings to collapse into their own footprint. There was a shopping mall collapse a few years back in Taiwan, IIRC, a multi-story structure that suffered a progressive, pancake collapse exactly like the WTC. That was do to poor construction, and once the collapse started it went right into its own footprint. The two ends of the building were left standing.
There was the tragic Cold Storage Building fire in Worcester, MA a few years back that killed a number of firemen when the building collapsed on them. It was only a few stories tall, but it fell right into its own footprint due to the fire. Didn't even touch the buildings around it. (I live in Worcester.)
As the the B-25 hitting the Empire State Building. So what? Have you seen a B-25 in person? I have, I've been in one. How about a Boeing 767? You can't begin to compare the two. A B-25 is smaller than most commuter turboprops let along an intercontinental widebody airliner. The B-25 was also at the end of its flight and nearly out of fuel, the 767s were almost full. The B-25 had a Maximum Take-Off Weight of 41,800, the B767-200 has a MTOW of 395,000 - nearly ten times as high. And the 767 was much closer to its MTOW than the B-25, especially since a large part of the MTOW of the B-25 was devoted to bombs, which it wasn't carrying. On top of that the B767 travels a hell of a lot faster than the B-25 - vastly increasing the energy of the impact (mass times velocity).
You know a little while after 9/11 a kid flew a Cesna into a high rise in Florida in some bizarre suicide attempt. That building didn't fall either. That applies to the WTC almost as much as the B-25.
Of course, the other factor is the buildings structure. The Empire State Building was in the early school. Heavy steel framework with lots of crossmembers. Stone exterior. Massive, heavy, not much open space. Most of the impact energy was expended in simply penetrating the outer wall. And that outer wall was NOT the primary load bearing structure. On the WTC, as I said above, the outer wall was. It was a bit like a old balloon framed house - put a big enough hole in the outer wall and it will probably come down.
As for the seismic readings - that's been debunked repeatedly. Experts agree that the readings are NOT indicative of an explosion. They give distinct readings. And the energy needed to produce the readings would've required a very large explosion, which would've been impossible to hide. The collapse very easily explains the readings obtained. As for the 'ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE' explosions - bullshit. I don't agree at all. I just don't think that's what it sounds like. And, if it were, why are they not audible or visible on any of the footage shot right at the scene? There is a LOT of continuous footage leading up to the collapse, which you can sync exactly with the across-the-bay shot, and there are no explosions. Period.
Even if pockets of fire got hot enough to melt some steel, that doesn't mean the fires i
He's still correct. All TiVos manufsctured starting a couple of months ago have 7.2 or higher, and that supports network Guided Setup out of the box. No POTS required, ever.
You just got a box manufactured before the switchover. It takes time for the retail channel to flush.
And this box has just about nothing in common with the DirecTV HD box. It also has features that weren't available in chipsets a year ago, or even a few months ago. They're using new chips to handle the advanced codecs, the same kind of chips going into HD-DVD and Blu-ray systems.
I saw your other post, it shows no understanding of the current market nor the trends. TiVo isn't late at all, except perhaps for some early adopters. Go look up the numbers if you really care.
The post sounded like something Sean in alt.video.ptv.tivo would post - he's been saying pretty much the same thing about TiVo dying Real Soon Now, for over two years running.
I guess you missed it. ReplayTV is out of the hardware business. They're selling off the last of the stock and that's that. There won't be any more ReplayTV boxes.
DNNA is slapping the ReplayTV name on PC-based DVR software now.
I've always used 30 second skip on my TiVos, and it works well for me. If your power blinks often enough that it is a problem resetting the toggle - you have bigger problems. Electronics don't like that - get a UPS and both problems are solved.
TiVo is porting their software to the Motorola 6412 platform, as well as a 'new' Motorola platform that hasn't been specified yet. (Perhaps one of the new DVR cable boxes they announced at CES today.)
TiVo works in Canada now. The service officially added Canadian support several months ago, but the hardware doesn't have a retail presence there yet. You can import a Series2 from the US and subscribe it in Canada no problem.
Actually one year ago. The first time they showed a CableCARD box was CES2005. They had a very early prototype running, and at the time they said it would be out in mid-2006. They're still following the same course.
And how many people do you think are going to replace their systems every 2 years? Or even every 4 years? Many people are using their original Series1 TiVos happily, and even original S1 units have a decent resale value for those who do decide to upgrade. Same for the older ReplayTV units, which cost more than the TiVos of the time.
So you pay lifetime and if you keep the unit longer than 2 years you've saved money. And if you upgrade you can still resell the unit and recoup a lot of the expense. As I said, I bought a Series1 used, bought lifetime for it, upgraded it, used it for a year, and then sold it for nearly as much as I'd spent on it total - and I had the use of it.
RTV has two sharing mechanisms - streaming, which only works on a local LAN, and Send Show, which is the Internet sharing feature that copies the show from one unit to another.
Send Show is being dropped in the 5500, but streaming is still present.
TiVo's system copies the show, but they only allow copying between units registered under the same account. And there is no way to enter a non-local IP, but I haven't seen anything that would stop someone from tunneling the TiVo Beacon and TiVo Guard protocols to a non-local machine. The sharing connection is encrypted, and authenticated with digital certificates issued by TiVo. To date no one has found a way to copy the stream.
It shouldn't be hard for RTV to implement something like that.
Because the HW used in the TiVo isn't standard PC HW and none of the MythTV code supports it. And the little fact that the CPU and RAM in the TiVo is insufficient to handle MythTV, ignoring the fact that it is also a MIPS CPU, etc. Could someone write an entirely new Linux-based OS and application to run on the TiVo, maybe even port MythTV - I suppose so, but why bother? PC HW is cheap enough.
Yeah - but then they'd have to deal with converting the DTV stream format into the DVD-V format, whereas this unit apparently just encodes to DVD-V in the first place.
Just hope that D&M doesn't finally do something about that and start making a real attempt to block DVArchive, unlike the lame protection they've used to date.
Legally it is pretty much entirely different. The act of downloading the MP3 is the violation, not burning the CD. You could record radio broadcasts and burn CDs perfectly legally - even record legitimate net radio, or burn CDs of tracks you paid for (ala Apple's service). In all of those cases, someone paid a license fee for the rights to the content - for radio or TV it is the broadcaster. The courts have protected the right of the individual to timeshift broadcast content. It would be a violation to burn a DVD to give to someone else (yeah, I know, many of us do this all the time when we dump a show to tape for a friend who missed it, etc).
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Yeah, and that's been such a problem... oh, wait, it has never once been an issue for me, or most users. And it is also unique to TiVo, no one using any other device has ever run into Macrovision - wait, no, some PC capture card users reported flags too. Could it be that pretty much every recording device sold has exactly the same software?
This is just a red herring and people who don't know what they're talking about always bring this up. It is reality for the industry. If you want to avoid it build your own box - and make sure the cards you using don't implement it.
So far the times that this has popped up it has been an error in the source - stations inappropriately adding the flag, etc. And it has been resolved.
True, some backdoor features were removed - or made harder to access. Some of the backdoor features are still in there, but you need to binary edit the software to enable them. I used to use some of the backdoors, but I haven't bothered to enable them since 3.x. I think the features that have been added more than offset the things that were 'lost'. Teach TiVo was interesting to play with, but I can see why it was never finished, it was really for just a handful of users. TiVo's philosophy has always been to keep things simple for the average user. I have an infamously long RFE list that has a reputation, even within TiVo, so I'm not shy about asking for new features. But I've been a happy user for years, and I look forward to the Series3.
Yeah, that was one of TiVo's earliest TV spots. One of the guys was Joe Montana and the guy with the itch was Ronnie Lott - both retired from the SF 49ers.
Like most things in life, some people like it, some people don't. But I can say that I've seen it posted all over the place already, and there are a lot of discussions around the net. So it has been doing a pretty good job of getting attention. Lots of little blogs that normally never mention TiVo suddenly have entries about the video, and all the blogs that do normally cover TiVo have it, of course. So it is putting the name out there to more people than normal.
Funny, I've had TiVo over 4.5 years and I don't recall ever losing any features in an update. More urban legends. Quite the contrary, my units keep getting new features.
The forthcoming Series3 will have a decoder that does MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/WM9. Whether or not the software is enabled for the new formats, we'll have to see.
SPS30S actually. Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select toggles the 30-second skip functionality on/off. I love it, and I've been using it for years, but, believe it or not, some people actually prefer the default skip-to-end functionality of the button. To each his own I suppose.
SPS9S is another one - it turns on an on-screen clock and elapsed time indicator in the lower-right corner of the screen.
While it doesn't work the way it was shown in the video, you *can* transfer video from a PC (Mac, Linux box, whatever) to a TiVo over a network. It just needs to be in the correct MPEG-2 format. TiVo Desktop on Windows supports it natively. TiVo Desktop on Mac supports it as a hidden feature. And 3rd party applications like Galleon (which is Java and runs most anywhere) also supports it. It is a sub-feature of TiVoToGo, generally called TiVoToComeBack.
The PC shows up as another entry in the TiVo's Now Playing List, similar to how other TiVo's show up for Multi-Room Viewing.
Just to note, the external walls of the WTC were, in fact, load bearing. It was a revolutionary structure designed to maximize open space. Unlike most skyscrapers, which have curtain walls, the WTC's outer walls carried a significant portion of the buildings load. The floors were carried by beams that spanned the gap from the central column to the walls. As those beams were softened by the heat they pulled on the outer walls and the core.
The design of the building was DIRECTLY related to the collapse. One of the main reason the WTC collapsed while other buildings have not is the way the structure distributed load and how it reacted to this failure mode. The fire alone wouldn't have been enough to bring it down, most likely. And if the aircraft hadn't hit then the spray-on fire insulation wouldn't have been blown off the beams. And the sprinklers would've still worked. Etc. The combination of the fire AND the weakened structure is what did it.
Many of your arguments are bogus. These are not the only buildings to collapse into their own footprint. There was a shopping mall collapse a few years back in Taiwan, IIRC, a multi-story structure that suffered a progressive, pancake collapse exactly like the WTC. That was do to poor construction, and once the collapse started it went right into its own footprint. The two ends of the building were left standing.
There was the tragic Cold Storage Building fire in Worcester, MA a few years back that killed a number of firemen when the building collapsed on them. It was only a few stories tall, but it fell right into its own footprint due to the fire. Didn't even touch the buildings around it. (I live in Worcester.)
As the the B-25 hitting the Empire State Building. So what? Have you seen a B-25 in person? I have, I've been in one. How about a Boeing 767? You can't begin to compare the two. A B-25 is smaller than most commuter turboprops let along an intercontinental widebody airliner. The B-25 was also at the end of its flight and nearly out of fuel, the 767s were almost full. The B-25 had a Maximum Take-Off Weight of 41,800, the B767-200 has a MTOW of 395,000 - nearly ten times as high. And the 767 was much closer to its MTOW than the B-25, especially since a large part of the MTOW of the B-25 was devoted to bombs, which it wasn't carrying. On top of that the B767 travels a hell of a lot faster than the B-25 - vastly increasing the energy of the impact (mass times velocity).
You know a little while after 9/11 a kid flew a Cesna into a high rise in Florida in some bizarre suicide attempt. That building didn't fall either. That applies to the WTC almost as much as the B-25.
Of course, the other factor is the buildings structure. The Empire State Building was in the early school. Heavy steel framework with lots of crossmembers. Stone exterior. Massive, heavy, not much open space. Most of the impact energy was expended in simply penetrating the outer wall. And that outer wall was NOT the primary load bearing structure. On the WTC, as I said above, the outer wall was. It was a bit like a old balloon framed house - put a big enough hole in the outer wall and it will probably come down.
As for the seismic readings - that's been debunked repeatedly. Experts agree that the readings are NOT indicative of an explosion. They give distinct readings. And the energy needed to produce the readings would've required a very large explosion, which would've been impossible to hide. The collapse very easily explains the readings obtained. As for the 'ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE' explosions - bullshit. I don't agree at all. I just don't think that's what it sounds like. And, if it were, why are they not audible or visible on any of the footage shot right at the scene? There is a LOT of continuous footage leading up to the collapse, which you can sync exactly with the across-the-bay shot, and there are no explosions. Period.
Even if pockets of fire got hot enough to melt some steel, that doesn't mean the fires i
He's still correct. All TiVos manufsctured starting a couple of months ago have 7.2 or higher, and that supports network Guided Setup out of the box. No POTS required, ever. You just got a box manufactured before the switchover. It takes time for the retail channel to flush.
And this box has just about nothing in common with the DirecTV HD box. It also has features that weren't available in chipsets a year ago, or even a few months ago. They're using new chips to handle the advanced codecs, the same kind of chips going into HD-DVD and Blu-ray systems. I saw your other post, it shows no understanding of the current market nor the trends. TiVo isn't late at all, except perhaps for some early adopters. Go look up the numbers if you really care. The post sounded like something Sean in alt.video.ptv.tivo would post - he's been saying pretty much the same thing about TiVo dying Real Soon Now, for over two years running.
I guess you missed it. ReplayTV is out of the hardware business. They're selling off the last of the stock and that's that. There won't be any more ReplayTV boxes. DNNA is slapping the ReplayTV name on PC-based DVR software now.
I've always used 30 second skip on my TiVos, and it works well for me. If your power blinks often enough that it is a problem resetting the toggle - you have bigger problems. Electronics don't like that - get a UPS and both problems are solved.
TiVo is porting their software to the Motorola 6412 platform, as well as a 'new' Motorola platform that hasn't been specified yet. (Perhaps one of the new DVR cable boxes they announced at CES today.)
TiVo works in Canada now. The service officially added Canadian support several months ago, but the hardware doesn't have a retail presence there yet. You can import a Series2 from the US and subscribe it in Canada no problem.
HME will continue to expand in capabilities incrimentally. There are a number of planned features for it, but TiVo isn't talking timeframe yet.
Actually one year ago. The first time they showed a CableCARD box was CES2005. They had a very early prototype running, and at the time they said it would be out in mid-2006. They're still following the same course.
And how many people do you think are going to replace their systems every 2 years? Or even every 4 years? Many people are using their original Series1 TiVos happily, and even original S1 units have a decent resale value for those who do decide to upgrade. Same for the older ReplayTV units, which cost more than the TiVos of the time.
So you pay lifetime and if you keep the unit longer than 2 years you've saved money. And if you upgrade you can still resell the unit and recoup a lot of the expense. As I said, I bought a Series1 used, bought lifetime for it, upgraded it, used it for a year, and then sold it for nearly as much as I'd spent on it total - and I had the use of it.
Yes, but the DishPVRs are home grown, not TiVo.
RTV has two sharing mechanisms - streaming, which only works on a local LAN, and Send Show, which is the Internet sharing feature that copies the show from one unit to another.
Send Show is being dropped in the 5500, but streaming is still present.
TiVo's system copies the show, but they only allow copying between units registered under the same account. And there is no way to enter a non-local IP, but I haven't seen anything that would stop someone from tunneling the TiVo Beacon and TiVo Guard protocols to a non-local machine. The sharing connection is encrypted, and authenticated with digital certificates issued by TiVo. To date no one has found a way to copy the stream.
It shouldn't be hard for RTV to implement something like that.
Because the HW used in the TiVo isn't standard PC HW and none of the MythTV code supports it. And the little fact that the CPU and RAM in the TiVo is insufficient to handle MythTV, ignoring the fact that it is also a MIPS CPU, etc. Could someone write an entirely new Linux-based OS and application to run on the TiVo, maybe even port MythTV - I suppose so, but why bother? PC HW is cheap enough.
Yeah - but then they'd have to deal with converting the DTV stream format into the DVD-V format, whereas this unit apparently just encodes to DVD-V in the first place.
Just hope that D&M doesn't finally do something about that and start making a real attempt to block DVArchive, unlike the lame protection they've used to date.
Legally it is pretty much entirely different. The act of downloading the MP3 is the violation, not burning the CD. You could record radio broadcasts and burn CDs perfectly legally - even record legitimate net radio, or burn CDs of tracks you paid for (ala Apple's service). In all of those cases, someone paid a license fee for the rights to the content - for radio or TV it is the broadcaster. The courts have protected the right of the individual to timeshift broadcast content. It would be a violation to burn a DVD to give to someone else (yeah, I know, many of us do this all the time when we dump a show to tape for a friend who missed it, etc).