I don't know where you live that you know of $40/hr network consultants, but that rate doesn't even get you someone to do a desktop memory upgrade here in Ohio. I know that wasn't your point though.
Actually I'd bet that the initial functionality would be similar to MS's UltimateTV, which does no MPEG encoding but simply records the raw stream from a satellite feed. I haven't actually seen the internals of an XBox to know if that would be feasible, but that type of implementation would mostly be a software upgrade if the video-in port already exists.
Actually, if they were to stop supporting the older boxes, I'd imagine the TiVo hacking community would seriously harm TiVo's business model by releasing the collection of service hacks, etc. that so far have been pretty much kept under wraps.
Great technical info, but none of it pertains to the combination satellite receiver/PVR boxes since they don't encode the video but simply save the already-encoded datastream that is received from the satellite.
True, but the cost of service is included in the up-front fee you pay for the unit. You can avoid TiVo's subscription by paying $250 up-front, and considering you can get a DirecTiVo for under $99 these days, you'll looking at less than $350 up-front for DirecTiVo+lifetime service.
Microsoft's UltimateTV also offers dual-tuner capabilities, although I highly recommend the DirecTiVo. Not sure if any of the Dishnet/ReplayTV options offer dual tuners yet or not.
Agreed, the TiVo folks on the AVS Forums are great. What also sold me was the ability to easily add drive space and the other software hacks that are available. Check the Underground section on the aforementioned AVS TiVo Forum for excellent info on hacking the TiVo.
According to Cnet, Compaq will be offering Proliant BL series of bladed servers soon as well. According to the article, HP was able to beat Compaq and others to market with their bladed offerings because HP went with an existing CompactPCI architecture, whereas Compaq believes CompactPCI doesn't offer high enough data transfer rates for bladed servers.
How many times do you want to temporary record some kind of moving video: I recon, when Aunt Stacy falls with her face in the aniversary cake I'm sure it will be great to see that a 100 times...but then you were probably not filming anyway;-)
Yeah, I mean just how useful were those portable video cameras in NYC on Sept 11? Oh, that's right, they happened to catch some of the most broadcast video clips of the attacks. And imagine what types of images we could've gotten if the people sending IM's and email from in and around the twin towers during the attacks happened to have a video cam on their cellphone where they could've snapped some stills or captured a bit of motion video.
There has been info going around about the a009 and the various PDA and gadget sites for quite a few months. I was actually under the impression that it was already available. Looks like a decent device, but I'm not so sure about only have an earphone option to use it as a phone.
What is it about color displays that makes them a "must have"? I've got a Psion Revo [psion.com] which doesn't suffer from lack of color, and has a longer battery life for it.
I was of the same opinion, until I sold my Revo and bought a Jornada 565. The Revo didn't even have a backlight and was practically useless in dim lighting. None of those problems with color. I do miss the keyboard though, my terrible handwriting will probably never work well with the various pen input methods.
accually there are publicly avalible scripts that modify the system files to make them beleive they have allready dialed out, and there will be no need to dial out again, ever.
These scripts that you speak of are only for TiVo boxes and DirecTV/TiVo combo boxes, although they do work wonderfully. The dealdatabase.com link you provided is a very good resource for anyone interested in doing some advanced hacking on their DirecTiVo box.
If SonicBlue ever sends down an update that takes away functionality that is advertised (printed on the box, mentioned on their website, etc), then they would do this at their own peril. It'd be like shouting, "I hope all of our customers get together and file a class action lawsuit against us!"
As someone else pointed out in this thread, the legalease on their site states "SONICblue reserves the right to automatically add, modify, or disable any features in the operating software when your ReplayTV 4000 connects to our server."
What I envision happening at some point is a judge declaring that ReplayTV 4000 can only share programs that the networks allow them to, sort of an opt-in for the networks. So technically Sonicblue wouldn't be guilty of false advertising since you can still share *some* programs. At any rate, the disclaimer above seems to cover them removing features as they please.
As a veteran TiVo user, I'm very intrigued by the ReplayTV4000 since it adds a few of the features out of the box that many TiVo users have been hoping for (yes, I'm completely aware of TivoNet). That said, unless there is a way to hack the software I won't be wasting my money on this product that very likely will be pulled from the market in its current form at some point thanks to the wonderful judicial system in the US.
What is needed is a way to have a fully functional system that doesn't take the software upgrades that will inevitably be coming to disable the sharing features and other features that the networks are complaining about. To compare it to TiVo, to use the full TiVo features you must leave a phoneline plugged in to "phone home" and take whatever software upgrades are forced on you. Pull the phone line for more than 30 days and you basically have yourself a glorified VCR. At some point in SonicBlue is going to be forced to send a software update to disable or alter some of the features of the 4000. Unless there is a way to hack the software to have a fully functional system without taking software updates, you're just wasting your money on this.
I'm assuming you purchased the iPaw 37xx series, which was the bargain-priced PocketPC 2002 iPaq precisely because it lacked the expansion capabilities that all other PocketPC 2002 devices have.
Slashdot Helpful Hint #681: When telling someone what you think it might be like in another country (oh, say... Japan), make sure that the person that you are replying to isn't, oh... say... named R. Suzuka and a student of Physics at the University of Tokyo.
Are these opened and used games being sold on Ebay? If so, it's interesting that it's apparently illegal to re-sell Windows OS or Office but not a game. Guess it comes down to the legalease that the company chooses to use in their EULA.
For some darn reason they always do that, North American GSM seems to be low priority for GSM phone builders.
Perhaps because the marketshare for GSM in the US is so far very low? Because CDMA and TDMA carriers currently offer vastly larger coverage areas than their GSM rivals, and there are plenty of CDMA and TDMA handsets that also offer analog roaming, GSM service is limited to pretty much only people that will be staying in and traveling between large metro areas. This will hopefully start to change once AT&T gets further along with their national GSM roll-out this should start to change. Of course, we start to get into a chicken vs. egg argument when you consider that more people (definitely me) would jump on the GSM bandwagon if some of these sweet Nokia handsets were available in the US.
According to this NY Times article, the US government is actually looking to implement their own secure network for their various agencies to share that would be separate from the larger network. I found the paragraph below quite interesting when taken in the context of the open-ness that this thread is asking about:
"Some in the technology industry fear what they see as the implications for the Internet: a separate cyberspace system for the government, they say, might create a trend in which other institutions as well would begin building their own networks separate from the Net. Civil libertarians, meanwhile, ask whether the idea would make the government less accessible to the people."
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2002-1953=49. And May is only 4 months away.
I don't know where you live that you know of $40/hr network consultants, but that rate doesn't even get you someone to do a desktop memory upgrade here in Ohio. I know that wasn't your point though.
Funny, I always thought the dream of most Slashdotters was to have Red Hat Linux everywhere.
Actually I'd bet that the initial functionality would be similar to MS's UltimateTV, which does no MPEG encoding but simply records the raw stream from a satellite feed. I haven't actually seen the internals of an XBox to know if that would be feasible, but that type of implementation would mostly be a software upgrade if the video-in port already exists.
Can't wait to get one of 'dem 'der TiVo's to use with my "stuff"...
That's probably just a typo, but how fitting :)
Actually, if they were to stop supporting the older boxes, I'd imagine the TiVo hacking community would seriously harm TiVo's business model by releasing the collection of service hacks, etc. that so far have been pretty much kept under wraps.
True, but the cost of service is included in the up-front fee you pay for the unit. You can avoid TiVo's subscription by paying $250 up-front, and considering you can get a DirecTiVo for under $99 these days, you'll looking at less than $350 up-front for DirecTiVo+lifetime service.
Microsoft's UltimateTV also offers dual-tuner capabilities, although I highly recommend the DirecTiVo. Not sure if any of the Dishnet/ReplayTV options offer dual tuners yet or not.
Agreed, the TiVo folks on the AVS Forums are great. What also sold me was the ability to easily add drive space and the other software hacks that are available. Check the Underground section on the aforementioned AVS TiVo Forum for excellent info on hacking the TiVo.
According to Cnet, Compaq will be offering Proliant BL series of bladed servers soon as well. According to the article, HP was able to beat Compaq and others to market with their bladed offerings because HP went with an existing CompactPCI architecture, whereas Compaq believes CompactPCI doesn't offer high enough data transfer rates for bladed servers.
Yeah, I mean just how useful were those portable video cameras in NYC on Sept 11? Oh, that's right, they happened to catch some of the most broadcast video clips of the attacks. And imagine what types of images we could've gotten if the people sending IM's and email from in and around the twin towers during the attacks happened to have a video cam on their cellphone where they could've snapped some stills or captured a bit of motion video.
There has been info going around about the a009 and the various PDA and gadget sites for quite a few months. I was actually under the impression that it was already available. Looks like a decent device, but I'm not so sure about only have an earphone option to use it as a phone.
I was of the same opinion, until I sold my Revo and bought a Jornada 565. The Revo didn't even have a backlight and was practically useless in dim lighting. None of those problems with color. I do miss the keyboard though, my terrible handwriting will probably never work well with the various pen input methods.
These scripts that you speak of are only for TiVo boxes and DirecTV/TiVo combo boxes, although they do work wonderfully. The dealdatabase.com link you provided is a very good resource for anyone interested in doing some advanced hacking on their DirecTiVo box.
As someone else pointed out in this thread, the legalease on their site states "SONICblue reserves the right to automatically add, modify, or disable any features in the operating software when your ReplayTV 4000 connects to our server."
What I envision happening at some point is a judge declaring that ReplayTV 4000 can only share programs that the networks allow them to, sort of an opt-in for the networks. So technically Sonicblue wouldn't be guilty of false advertising since you can still share *some* programs. At any rate, the disclaimer above seems to cover them removing features as they please.
What is needed is a way to have a fully functional system that doesn't take the software upgrades that will inevitably be coming to disable the sharing features and other features that the networks are complaining about. To compare it to TiVo, to use the full TiVo features you must leave a phoneline plugged in to "phone home" and take whatever software upgrades are forced on you. Pull the phone line for more than 30 days and you basically have yourself a glorified VCR. At some point in SonicBlue is going to be forced to send a software update to disable or alter some of the features of the 4000. Unless there is a way to hack the software to have a fully functional system without taking software updates, you're just wasting your money on this.
I'm assuming you purchased the iPaw 37xx series, which was the bargain-priced PocketPC 2002 iPaq precisely because it lacked the expansion capabilities that all other PocketPC 2002 devices have.
Best. Hint. Ever.
MSRP on the cardboard box edition is $49.99 while the collector's tin is $59.99. Seems to just meet your limit of $50.
Are these opened and used games being sold on Ebay? If so, it's interesting that it's apparently illegal to re-sell Windows OS or Office but not a game. Guess it comes down to the legalease that the company chooses to use in their EULA.
Perhaps because the marketshare for GSM in the US is so far very low? Because CDMA and TDMA carriers currently offer vastly larger coverage areas than their GSM rivals, and there are plenty of CDMA and TDMA handsets that also offer analog roaming, GSM service is limited to pretty much only people that will be staying in and traveling between large metro areas. This will hopefully start to change once AT&T gets further along with their national GSM roll-out this should start to change. Of course, we start to get into a chicken vs. egg argument when you consider that more people (definitely me) would jump on the GSM bandwagon if some of these sweet Nokia handsets were available in the US.
According to this NY Times article, the US government is actually looking to implement their own secure network for their various agencies to share that would be separate from the larger network. I found the paragraph below quite interesting when taken in the context of the open-ness that this thread is asking about: "Some in the technology industry fear what they see as the implications for the Internet: a separate cyberspace system for the government, they say, might create a trend in which other institutions as well would begin building their own networks separate from the Net. Civil libertarians, meanwhile, ask whether the idea would make the government less accessible to the people."
Worst. Thread. Ever.