The commercials feature her fat lips so prominently it looks like another wretched Tomb Raider promo.
Of course, you know the supreme irony is that Jolie herself no longer has or never had quite as perfect a body as required for the Tomb Raider 2 marketing collateral or body shots. Yes, even the best surgery and personal trainers have limits. So for the adverts and the pseudo-nudie shots, what you see is her head pasted (expertly and imperceptibly) onto a body double's torso. This is true - I have it on good authrity from my wife's sister's roomate's friend, who worked on the digital compositing.
Actually both ReplayTV and Tivo brought their technology to market simultaneously (summer of 1999)O. So much so, in fact, that they dropped competing patent infringement lawsuits against each other in favour of a blanket patent sharing arrangement.
If you are not familiar with ReplayTV vs Tivo, there's a simple analogy. Think: Apple vs Microsoft. The market shares are actually kind of similar as well.
You will be able to order a DVD and have it appear sometime later on the Tivo.
I already enjoy this slow pseudo-VOD service with TV shows (and whatever DVDs people have stored on their RTVs) using ReplayTV and Poopli. It's like Napster for video.
Tivo has a much lower initial investment, looks better, easier to use, and takes a whole 10 minutes to setup.
That is a good point about the electricity usage, but Tivo's networking and DRM-crippled "HMO" content distribution leaves something to be desired. Go with ReplayTV/DVArchive and you'll be much happier when you get smoother cross-platform networking and uncrippled content sharing right out of the box.
I guess I am really factoring in the cost of the PC to a ReplayTV system as just adding a couple hundred GBs to an existing LAN. That's $100 for the RTV, $300 for activation, and $100 for the disk.
Press pause while watching something that's already recorded, and the next thing you know you have to wait 4 minutes for it to reboot.
Dude I've had a couple of RTVs for a while now and neither of them have ever done this. Sounds like your unit is flaking out. I would open it up and blow all the dust out - might be a shorting problem. Also check for heat. Try replacing the power supply. ALso check/replace the IDE cable and/or disk drive.
All the reasons you list (dvd, dvd ripping, music, web browser, rss, weather, pictures) are part of a ReplayTV + DVArchive configuration. Tivo has really lowered people's expectations of what a commercial PVR can actually *do*.
All the reasons you list (web interface, networked playback and recording, configuration, VHS input, download playback) are part of a ReplayTV + DVArchive configuration. Tivo has really lowered people's expectations of what a commercial PVR can actually *do*.
Although I do have a couple of TB of storage on the LAN, I do of course run out of space and some burning is required. Personally, I convert most everything to DIVX and burn to CD - stil working through an odd thousand or so free-after-rebate blanks. But I hear you can get DVD burners for basically free these days.
Soon TiVo users will be able to share DRM'd dongle enabled shows
ReplayTV fans have been sharing shows across LANs, WANs, and between all (Java-enabled) platforms for years. We didn't have to wait for permission from the FCC. Check out Poopli. And my ReplayTV disk server is also my complete MAME ROMs and HTPC server. Snap!
Or... you could just buy an ethernet-ready, autoconfiguring ReplayTV for around $400 (lifetime) or less from eBay, boot up the free software Java-based DVArchive (works on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Xp, Linux, Mac OSX 10.2.3 or later, Solaris, etc), and schedule, share, and distribute your content over your LAN or across the Internet at will. In this context, the ReplayTV box works like as a really very loosely coupled capture device with its own extensive on-board command set that can be driven remotely by the DVArchive program, either at a console or using a web browser. And unlike the Tivo's inferior HMO option, the DVArchive system costs nothing and is unemcumbered by DRM. Some select ReplayTV models even feature automatic commercial skipping (using associated XML content metatags) and let you download content from a library of several tens of thousands of shows stored on a wide distributed ReplayTV network. More info here or here.
it certainly is the best media center design to date... Microsoft copied iTunes
My friend,they are both cribbing from the most advanced player in terms of features, UI design and configurability, library management and client-server and zone playback modes: Media Center.
If you are going to *sell* a piece of jukebox software in the marketplace when so many monopolists are giving theirs away for "free" then you have to be very very very good indeed. And Media Center certainly is.
WHat is the definition of this market? Who defines it? Who verifies Apple's share of it?
iTMS sells over 70% of online music.
How is this defined? Who defines it? Is there independent verification? Is this in total song license downloads? Is it in number of files streamed? Is it based on total "ear minutes" per month? Is it based on dollar volume revenue per period? Is it based on US, European, Asian, or global figures?
"Plus it still doesn't have iTunes, which is huge.
No, but you will have Media Center, which is way cooler anyway anyhow. How useful would iTunes, currently a non-multimedia software with very limited codec and transcoding support, actually be for a multimedia handheld?
I'm just talking about smart things like smart playlists, party shuffle, and other ways of easily and powerfully customizing how your music plays.
Yes yes yes, iTunes is reasonable in these areas, but it's still playing catch up to Media Center's more flexible, refined and downright powerful implementation of these things, is coming from a long way behind, and has a long way to go. iTunes doesn't even support multimedia, which for a multimedia handheld the subject of this posting, is a bit of an oversight!
128kbps AAC is NOT the same as a 128kbps MP3. Look at the codecs and you'll understand...
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. You should be aware that in the most current blind mass listening tests, AAC 128Kbps now lags behind Vorbis and MPC, and is effectively tied with Lame for third place (or joint second, depending on how you look at it).
allofmp3.com songs are *not* legal under European or American terms, just under Russian terms.
I notice that corporations are now able to outsource their labour costs to effectively captive populations trapped in low-wage countries. Corporations also take advantage of manufacturing within countries with laxer environmental and social welfare laws.
What's the point of all this hoopla about "global free trade" if consumers are not equally able to outsource their media purchases to arbitrage price differentials and different national IP laws and regimes? People in the expensive, walled-garden West using legal encoding and distribution services are just being good global citizens, spreading their wealth...
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The commercials feature her fat lips so prominently it looks like another wretched Tomb Raider promo.
Of course, you know the supreme irony is that Jolie herself no longer has or never had quite as perfect a body as required for the Tomb Raider 2 marketing collateral or body shots. Yes, even the best surgery and personal trainers have limits. So for the adverts and the pseudo-nudie shots, what you see is her head pasted (expertly and imperceptibly) onto a body double's torso. This is true - I have it on good authrity from my wife's sister's roomate's friend, who worked on the digital compositing.
Tivo created the DVR
Actually both ReplayTV and Tivo brought their technology to market simultaneously (summer of 1999)O. So much so, in fact, that they dropped competing patent infringement lawsuits against each other in favour of a blanket patent sharing arrangement.
If you are not familiar with ReplayTV vs Tivo, there's a simple analogy. Think: Apple vs Microsoft. The market shares are actually kind of similar as well.
You will be able to order a DVD and have it appear sometime later on the Tivo.
I already enjoy this slow pseudo-VOD service with TV shows (and whatever DVDs people have stored on their RTVs) using ReplayTV and Poopli. It's like Napster for video.
Tivo has a much lower initial investment, looks better, easier to use, and takes a whole 10 minutes to setup.
That is a good point about the electricity usage, but Tivo's networking and DRM-crippled "HMO" content distribution leaves something to be desired. Go with ReplayTV/DVArchive and you'll be much happier when you get smoother cross-platform networking and uncrippled content sharing right out of the box.
It's way more expensive.
More expensive than which? Tivo?
I guess I am really factoring in the cost of the PC to a ReplayTV system as just adding a couple hundred GBs to an existing LAN. That's $100 for the RTV, $300 for activation, and $100 for the disk.
Press pause while watching something that's already recorded, and the next thing you know you have to wait 4 minutes for it to reboot.
Dude I've had a couple of RTVs for a while now and neither of them have ever done this. Sounds like your unit is flaking out. I would open it up and blow all the dust out - might be a shorting problem. Also check for heat. Try replacing the power supply. ALso check/replace the IDE cable and/or disk drive.
Myth does so much more than Tivo
All the reasons you list (dvd, dvd ripping, music, web browser, rss, weather, pictures) are part of a ReplayTV + DVArchive configuration. Tivo has really lowered people's expectations of what a commercial PVR can actually *do*.
It's better than TiVo for a number of reasons
All the reasons you list (web interface, networked playback and recording, configuration, VHS input, download playback) are part of a ReplayTV + DVArchive configuration. Tivo has really lowered people's expectations of what a commercial PVR can actually *do*.
some links
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Does it have a DVD burner?
Although I do have a couple of TB of storage on the LAN, I do of course run out of space and some burning is required. Personally, I convert most everything to DIVX and burn to CD - stil working through an odd thousand or so free-after-rebate blanks. But I hear you can get DVD burners for basically free these days.
Soon TiVo users will be able to share DRM'd dongle enabled shows
ReplayTV fans have been sharing shows across LANs, WANs, and between all (Java-enabled) platforms for years. We didn't have to wait for permission from the FCC. Check out Poopli. And my ReplayTV disk server is also my complete MAME ROMs and HTPC server. Snap!
I'm also able to watch any tv shows I've recorded from any of the other desktops in my house and anywhere in my house/yard from my laptop.
You can do all this with ReplayTV straight out-of-the-box, no hacks required.
Networking Tivos sucks with the HMO. Have you looked at ReplayTV & DVArchive?
Or... you could just buy an ethernet-ready, autoconfiguring ReplayTV for around $400 (lifetime) or less from eBay, boot up the free software Java-based DVArchive (works on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Xp, Linux, Mac OSX 10.2.3 or later, Solaris, etc), and schedule, share, and distribute your content over your LAN or across the Internet at will. In this context, the ReplayTV box works like as a really very loosely coupled capture device with its own extensive on-board command set that can be driven remotely by the DVArchive program, either at a console or using a web browser. And unlike the Tivo's inferior HMO option, the DVArchive system costs nothing and is unemcumbered by DRM. Some select ReplayTV models even feature automatic commercial skipping (using associated XML content metatags) and let you download content from a library of several tens of thousands of shows stored on a wide distributed ReplayTV network. More info here or here.
it certainly is the best media center design to date ... Microsoft copied iTunes
My friend,they are both cribbing from the most advanced player in terms of features, UI design and configurability, library management and client-server and zone playback modes: Media Center.
If you are going to *sell* a piece of jukebox software in the marketplace when so many monopolists are giving theirs away for "free" then you have to be very very very good indeed. And Media Center certainly is.
The iPod has over 50% marketshare.
WHat is the definition of this market? Who defines it? Who verifies Apple's share of it?
iTMS sells over 70% of online music.
How is this defined? Who defines it? Is there independent verification? Is this in total song license downloads? Is it in number of files streamed? Is it based on total "ear minutes" per month? Is it based on dollar volume revenue per period? Is it based on US, European, Asian, or global figures?
Sex. Women do all their freaky stuff in college
Obviously you've never met 30- and 40-somethings at Burning Man or similar...
"Plus it still doesn't have iTunes, which is huge.
No, but you will have Media Center, which is way cooler anyway anyhow. How useful would iTunes, currently a non-multimedia software with very limited codec and transcoding support, actually be for a multimedia handheld?
I'm just talking about smart things like smart playlists, party shuffle, and other ways of easily and powerfully customizing how your music plays.
Yes yes yes, iTunes is reasonable in these areas, but it's still playing catch up to Media Center's more flexible, refined and downright powerful implementation of these things, is coming from a long way behind, and has a long way to go. iTunes doesn't even support multimedia, which for a multimedia handheld the subject of this posting, is a bit of an oversight!
Imagine, for instance, a 50-page book on regular expression pattern matching for Mac OS X users.
Oh be still my beating heart.
128kbps AAC is NOT the same as a 128kbps MP3. Look at the codecs and you'll understand...
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. You should be aware that in the most current blind mass listening tests, AAC 128Kbps now lags behind Vorbis and MPC, and is effectively tied with Lame for third place (or joint second, depending on how you look at it).
I'm more than happy with 128kbps AAC encoded rips of my CDs
You are aware, are you not, that in blind listening tests AAC 128Kbps now lags behind Vorbis and MPC?
You are aware, are you not, that in blind listening tests AAC 128Kbps now lags behind Vorbis and MPC?
From your own link, it seems that Vorbis and MPC now offer the best quality, while AAC and Lame are effectively tied.
allofmp3.com songs are *not* legal under European or American terms, just under Russian terms.
I notice that corporations are now able to outsource their labour costs to effectively captive populations trapped in low-wage countries. Corporations also take advantage of manufacturing within countries with laxer environmental and social welfare laws.
What's the point of all this hoopla about "global free trade" if consumers are not equally able to outsource their media purchases to arbitrage price differentials and different national IP laws and regimes? People in the expensive, walled-garden West using legal encoding and distribution services are just being good global citizens, spreading their wealth...