Barebones typically doesn't include a video card that supports TV-out. You're also missing MPEG2 encoding hardware and/or video-capturing hardware as well as any hardware to support HDTV. You also didn't include costs of peripherals such as remote control devices, etc.
Without getting into the neverending "tabbed browsing" argument, I'll go out on a limb and say that these leaked builds will probably help Safari's marketshare in the long run. In browsing various Mac messageboards before and after v60 was leaked, I can tell you that many people dumped Camino the moment that tabs were discovered in Safari's debug menu. Had Safari's tabs been kept under wraps until the next public beta, Camino would have only matured and captured more users, which in the long run could've decreased the number of users using Safari. Of course this is all speculation. And I won't even get into the benefit that Apple realized by having a larger user base testing these builds.
Most companies do not selectively choose individual lines unless they have too. It is not surprising to see Compaq servers, Compaq san's, Compaq tape backups, and Compaq PC's and laptops on every desk and server room in a corporate environment.
This is typically because a)companies obtain better volume pricing by sticking with a single vendor, and b)companies many times prefer to have a single point of contact for support issues. And not surprisingly, with things such as tape backups and SAN's, you're essentially getting the same or very similar hardware no matter what vendor supplies it since they have someone else (Quantum, Brocade, etc) OEM the hardware in the first place.
I notice practically no heat at all from my iBook even after an hour of constant use. Compare that to my old Dell P3-400mhz, which would begin burning my leg after about a half hour. This is my first Apple product, and I really have to hand it to them with the iBook, a very usable, durable, comfortable laptop.
Please point me to where I can get a dual or quad Xeon system for $2800 from a commercial vendor that will provide support for it. Thanks.
With pricing available to just about any Compaq corporate customer, a dual-Xeon 2.4Ghz Proliant DL360 (rack-mount 1U server) comes in under $2800, which includes 3 year standard support. List price is ~$3500.
I'll second those sentiments regarding Compaq's StorageWorks line. They might not yet be able to compete with EMC and HDS on the enterprise level, but their midrange stuff can compete with anybody when comparing best bang for the buck. Their Enterprise Virtual ArrayAnd you're killing me with your SENA hint. I've been dying to find some FC hardware to play with at home, but am not finding any cheap sources for SENA hardware.
The HP/Compaq in particular is getting raves from the real-world usability angle. Never mind a Transmeta-based system might do the job even better and be Linux-compatible - why was MS allowed to be first to (mass) market?
Uh, I know this isn't your main point, but the HP Tablet PC *is* a Transmeta-based system, specifically a Crusoe 5800.
As a DISH customer, I disagree. DISH really needs to get it's hardware act together, (set-top box wise, their hardware is utter CRAP!). Giving them a monopoly is *not* the way to do that. Making them compete for customers is the way tot make them do that.
The merger could have resolved this issue in that they could have stuck with the DirecTV equipment and their manufacturing partners. In fact, it would have made financial sense to do it that way since the installed base of DirecTV customers is higher than the E* customer base.
Time Warner is offering HDTV service in quite a few markets. My local TW (Columbus) offers HBO-HD, SHO-HD, and the local NBC, CBS, WB affiliates in HD (local ABC and FOX affiliate is dragging their feet on HD feeds). TW uses the Scientific Atlantic 3100HD STB. Overall TW's offerings worked just as well as my current Hughes E86 OTA/DirecTV setup and is a much cheaper option for Joe 6-pack to get into the HDTV game.
Pearl Jam planning something similar
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Pearl Jam announced a few months ago that for their world tour that's about to begin this month, they'll be putting a live CD of a show on sale within a week of the show. Better yet, if you order via their website, you have the opportunity to download the unmastered MP3 version of the show the day after each show. For people that didn't already know, Pearl Jam released a concert CD for each show of their last show, around $10 from their website IIRC. Very interesting to note that if you go to Epicrecords.com, they are advertising this Pearl Jam deal in big graphics on their front page. FYI, Epic Records is a division of the evil Sony, one of the most vocal RIAA members.
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I downloaded the free public beta version of Sims Online a few months ago for my wife as she was an avid Sims player but was becoming bored with the offline versions. After a couple of days of Sims Online, she just stopped playing the Online version because there really was no new concept to the game. It was basically the same offline version with the added chat features, and the chat features really added nothing to gameplay and certainly aren't worth a montly fee.
4TH QTR ADVERTISERS Anheuser-Busch* Columbia Pictures: 30-seconds myfico.com 30-seconds Nat'l Drug Control: 30-seconds Sony Electronics: 60-seconds
Anheuser-Busch has bought five-and-a-half minutes of time on ABC's broadcast and will advertise in all quarters. The Bud, Bud Light and Michelob Ultra brands will all be touted.
If someone goes with the TiVo option, they're investing in the company; when the company goes bankrupt, their player is useless
Well I've been hearing this same argument for 2 years now, during which time my lifetime service has more than paid for itself.
Not to mention you're comparing the price of a refubished TiVo to a new HP box
Fair enough, and it could be considered an apples to oranges comparison, but I'm sure you realize that the TiVo's main feature is video recording. If you can add the features of the HP box to the best PVR on the market at a similar cost, it's a no-brainer to me.
Not at all portable enough to fit into the sport little 300-series
Oops, guess you're not really a BMW owner since any BMW owner would know that the models are referred to as the 3-series, 5-series etc., not the 300-series;-)
What's more valuable to AOL/Time Warner and its shareholders? A billion dollar entertainment industry or a million dollar PVR industry that may be dead in a few years?
Funny, wonder if TW shareholders had similar thoughts a few years back when AOL (the same AOL that *bought* TW) was just a part of the million dollar online service industry?
Nobody is forcing you to pay for any of these "pre-announced" new features. Don't want to pay for them? Fine, don't add them to your service. It certainly won't be a requirement.
If you go through the configuration of the lower-priced model, you can add the USB cradle for $20. The extra $80 in price difference is due to the higher amount of memory.
So what? Its their service. They could if they wanted ban all people with 'e's in their name.
I'd agree with this statement, but only if Microsoft were refunding the $50 to people that they've banned. As it is, they're banning people without telling them (making people wonder if there's a network problem or a problem with their setup), and they're keeping the $50.
Yeah, TiVo really found themselves in a very narrow market. Without appealing to the general public, TiVo just grabs techies who are too lazy to put together their own box, which is fairly simple. Plus monthly rates are too high
While I'll agree that TiVo does have a fairly narrow market, it's not nearly as narrow as you say. And the narrowness of the market can mostly be overcome through marketing. Take it from a techie that has been building PC's for friends and family for years, I'd always recommend TiVo over any home-built DVR box. I've owned TiVo for 3 years and did actually experiment with a self-built box. You just can't match TiVo unless you sink over $1k into hardware. I even had one of those MS Media Center PC's for a month in their beta program, and after using it for a couple of days, it collected dust while I continued to use my 2 TiVo's daily.
Looks like they went with Wistron to manufacture the devices. Another article I had read back in June mentioned that 3 of the 4 ODM's that Dell was courting for their PDA line pulled out of the running because they didn't think there'd be much of a profit in manufacturing a device with Ipaq specifications but selling for $299. It doesn't sound like Dell is aiming for the mid-level Audiovox Maestro-type devices, they're aiming squarely at market leader HP and their high-end Ipaq devices. That $299 price is also mentioned in the article I linked to above and has been the price that has been tossed around with just about all recent Dell PDA rumors.
If you're a fan of the PocketPC devices, Dell's entry is nothing but a good thing as they'll drive down prices across the board. If you're a Palm fan however, this is yet another blow since at this price-point, a mid-tier Palm OS device will have trouble competing with a flashy, full-featured Pocket PC device in the mainstream markets.
A DTIVO will record 2 seperate shows and play a third show (previously recorded) all at the same time. NO OTHER PVR/DVR can do this.
Technically you're right, but the UltimateTV had this ability out of the box when they were first released while DirecTiVo owners waited for the software upgrade to enable the 2nd tuner. Of course, UTV is now dead, so you are technically correct.
Please show me the $199 PC that has a DVD drive, onboard NIC, decent video and sound that I can run into my TV and, while on, is pretty much noiseless that also plays Xbox games. Provide links, if possible, and I'll go buy one instead of the Xbox I was planning on buying (refurb on sale for $159.99 at Electronics Boutique!) today. If you could, please hurry as the sale ends this weekend.
I'm not being entirely sarcastic (if there really is a place that sells comparable $200 PCs, I would buy one), but I am tired of this whole "you can get PCs for the price of an Xbox" argument. My motherboard cost almost that much by itself. My video card cost more than that. Just because I can get a crappy Microtel or whatever at Wal-Mart for $200 bucks doesn't mean it's just as good
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Barebones typically doesn't include a video card that supports TV-out. You're also missing MPEG2 encoding hardware and/or video-capturing hardware as well as any hardware to support HDTV. You also didn't include costs of peripherals such as remote control devices, etc.
Without getting into the neverending "tabbed browsing" argument, I'll go out on a limb and say that these leaked builds will probably help Safari's marketshare in the long run. In browsing various Mac messageboards before and after v60 was leaked, I can tell you that many people dumped Camino the moment that tabs were discovered in Safari's debug menu. Had Safari's tabs been kept under wraps until the next public beta, Camino would have only matured and captured more users, which in the long run could've decreased the number of users using Safari. Of course this is all speculation. And I won't even get into the benefit that Apple realized by having a larger user base testing these builds.
This is typically because a)companies obtain better volume pricing by sticking with a single vendor, and b)companies many times prefer to have a single point of contact for support issues. And not surprisingly, with things such as tape backups and SAN's, you're essentially getting the same or very similar hardware no matter what vendor supplies it since they have someone else (Quantum, Brocade, etc) OEM the hardware in the first place.
I notice practically no heat at all from my iBook even after an hour of constant use. Compare that to my old Dell P3-400mhz, which would begin burning my leg after about a half hour. This is my first Apple product, and I really have to hand it to them with the iBook, a very usable, durable, comfortable laptop.
With pricing available to just about any Compaq corporate customer, a dual-Xeon 2.4Ghz Proliant DL360 (rack-mount 1U server) comes in under $2800, which includes 3 year standard support. List price is ~$3500.
I'll second those sentiments regarding Compaq's StorageWorks line. They might not yet be able to compete with EMC and HDS on the enterprise level, but their midrange stuff can compete with anybody when comparing best bang for the buck. Their Enterprise Virtual ArrayAnd you're killing me with your SENA hint. I've been dying to find some FC hardware to play with at home, but am not finding any cheap sources for SENA hardware.
Uh, I know this isn't your main point, but the HP Tablet PC *is* a Transmeta-based system, specifically a Crusoe 5800.
The merger could have resolved this issue in that they could have stuck with the DirecTV equipment and their manufacturing partners. In fact, it would have made financial sense to do it that way since the installed base of DirecTV customers is higher than the E* customer base.
Time Warner is offering HDTV service in quite a few markets. My local TW (Columbus) offers HBO-HD, SHO-HD, and the local NBC, CBS, WB affiliates in HD (local ABC and FOX affiliate is dragging their feet on HD feeds). TW uses the Scientific Atlantic 3100HD STB. Overall TW's offerings worked just as well as my current Hughes E86 OTA/DirecTV setup and is a much cheaper option for Joe 6-pack to get into the HDTV game.
Pearl Jam announced a few months ago that for their world tour that's about to begin this month, they'll be putting a live CD of a show on sale within a week of the show. Better yet, if you order via their website, you have the opportunity to download the unmastered MP3 version of the show the day after each show. For people that didn't already know, Pearl Jam released a concert CD for each show of their last show, around $10 from their website IIRC. Very interesting to note that if you go to Epicrecords.com, they are advertising this Pearl Jam deal in big graphics on their front page. FYI, Epic Records is a division of the evil Sony, one of the most vocal RIAA members.
I downloaded the free public beta version of Sims Online a few months ago for my wife as she was an avid Sims player but was becoming bored with the offline versions. After a couple of days of Sims Online, she just stopped playing the Online version because there really was no new concept to the game. It was basically the same offline version with the added chat features, and the chat features really added nothing to gameplay and certainly aren't worth a montly fee.
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Columbia Pictures: 30-seconds
DaimlerChrysler: 30-seconds
DaimlerChrysler: 30-seconds
FedEx: 45-seconds
Gatorade: 30-seconds
H & R Block: 30-seconds
PepsiCo: 45-seconds
Quizno's: 30-seconds
Universal Pictures: 30-seconds
Warner Bros.: 60-seconds
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Hanes 30-seconds
Levi Strauss: 30-seconds
Monster: 30-seconds
PepsiCo: 30-seconds
PepsiCo: 45-seconds
Philip Morris: 30-seconds
Subway: 30-seconds
Touchstone/Disney: 30-seconds
Trident Gum: 15-seconds
20th Century Fox: 30-seconds
Universal Pictures: 30-seconds
Visa: 30-seconds
Visa: 30-seconds
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Anheuser-Busch*
AT&T Wireless: 30-seconds
Cadillac: 90-seconds
Columbia Pictures: 30-seconds
Nat'l Drug Control: 30-seconds
PepsiCo: 30-seconds
Reebok: 60-seconds
Salton: 30-seconds
Yahoo's HotJobs: 30-seconds
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Anheuser-Busch*
Columbia Pictures: 30-seconds
myfico.com 30-seconds
Nat'l Drug Control: 30-seconds
Sony Electronics: 60-seconds
Anheuser-Busch has bought five-and-a-half minutes of time on ABC's broadcast and will advertise in all quarters. The Bud, Bud Light and Michelob Ultra brands will all be touted.
Well I've been hearing this same argument for 2 years now, during which time my lifetime service has more than paid for itself.
Not to mention you're comparing the price of a refubished TiVo to a new HP box
Fair enough, and it could be considered an apples to oranges comparison, but I'm sure you realize that the TiVo's main feature is video recording. If you can add the features of the HP box to the best PVR on the market at a similar cost, it's a no-brainer to me.
Oops, guess you're not really a BMW owner since any BMW owner would know that the models are referred to as the 3-series, 5-series etc., not the 300-series ;-)
Funny, wonder if TW shareholders had similar thoughts a few years back when AOL (the same AOL that *bought* TW) was just a part of the million dollar online service industry?
Nobody is forcing you to pay for any of these "pre-announced" new features. Don't want to pay for them? Fine, don't add them to your service. It certainly won't be a requirement.
If you go through the configuration of the lower-priced model, you can add the USB cradle for $20. The extra $80 in price difference is due to the higher amount of memory.
So having a hardware modchip installed in your XBox to run Linux or some other software makes you an ass who abuses the XBox Live service?
I'd agree with this statement, but only if Microsoft were refunding the $50 to people that they've banned. As it is, they're banning people without telling them (making people wonder if there's a network problem or a problem with their setup), and they're keeping the $50.
what are these "friends" that you speak of?
Happen to still have the link to that article around? I'd love to use it to get the show permanently removed from my TiVo.
While I'll agree that TiVo does have a fairly narrow market, it's not nearly as narrow as you say. And the narrowness of the market can mostly be overcome through marketing. Take it from a techie that has been building PC's for friends and family for years, I'd always recommend TiVo over any home-built DVR box. I've owned TiVo for 3 years and did actually experiment with a self-built box. You just can't match TiVo unless you sink over $1k into hardware. I even had one of those MS Media Center PC's for a month in their beta program, and after using it for a couple of days, it collected dust while I continued to use my 2 TiVo's daily.
If you're a fan of the PocketPC devices, Dell's entry is nothing but a good thing as they'll drive down prices across the board. If you're a Palm fan however, this is yet another blow since at this price-point, a mid-tier Palm OS device will have trouble competing with a flashy, full-featured Pocket PC device in the mainstream markets.
Technically you're right, but the UltimateTV had this ability out of the box when they were first released while DirecTiVo owners waited for the software upgrade to enable the 2nd tuner. Of course, UTV is now dead, so you are technically correct.
The answer to your question is just a few posts above:
Please show me the $199 PC that has a DVD drive, onboard NIC, decent video and sound that I can run into my TV and, while on, is pretty much noiseless that also plays Xbox games. Provide links, if possible, and I'll go buy one instead of the Xbox I was planning on buying (refurb on sale for $159.99 at Electronics Boutique!) today. If you could, please hurry as the sale ends this weekend.
I'm not being entirely sarcastic (if there really is a place that sells comparable $200 PCs, I would buy one), but I am tired of this whole "you can get PCs for the price of an Xbox" argument. My motherboard cost almost that much by itself. My video card cost more than that. Just because I can get a crappy Microtel or whatever at Wal-Mart for $200 bucks doesn't mean it's just as good