But it does make NASA part of the military/industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address
Having contractors that happen to also do business with the military does not make NASA part of the MIC. NASA simply does not do enough business for a subcontractor to solely depend on that income. They take military contracts to survive - that and the military contracts are far more lucrative than the NASA ones.
a cozy relationship between military bureaucrats whose career depends on certain programs with contractors who profit by those programs and the Congressmen they have in their pockets.
Completely agree with this point. Business and politics should be forced to remain apart. These Republicans trying to porkbarrel money for their own benefit are just disgusting. They should be thrown out of office.
Ok, thanks for answering and sorry for my ignorance on this.
What capture cards are recommended? Do I just split my cable from the wall into as many inputs as I need and feed them individually to each capture card?
(Massive storage space) - have yet to run out (I keep a month of backlogged programs occasionally if I get behind), and I can tell it to automatically delete the oldest or specific shows to make room if necessary.
(Record by show name) - Yup. This is useful when the broadcaster moves the timeslot, the show still records regardless of when it actually came on, even if they move it to a different day.
(Pause live TV): Yup.
(Upscale SD content to 1080p): Yup.
My PVR can record up to three HD/SD channels simultaneously. And I can watch a prerecorded fourth. Can a homegrown do that? For this reason I use cable and not satellite (that and satellite guide searches are ridiculously slow).
Some of the others are useful, some I would not use.
What capabilities are you not seeing in the DIY version? I haven't seen any DIY PVR systems that didn't have every feature under the sun
Well primarily with my DVR I can record/watch three shows simultaneously, whether they are HD or regular. I don't actually watch a lot but for some reason the shows i want to watch are on the same time or overlap. So I find if I'm watching something, one or sometimes two programs could also be recording, or I could be watching a pre-recorded and have three others recording. Haven't seen a home version that can do that.
I have yet to see a home built PVR with the capabilities of the PVR that comes from the cable company. Until it does, home rolled PVRs are just an interesting project, but not a viable alternative (for me anyway).
I don't know why anyone bothers to record a movie in a theater on a handycam, or worse still actually pays money to buy a movie recorded in that manner. The quality is pathetic. Complete waste of time and money.
Alas, certain shows (such as the new Doctor Who series) are not accessible in that fashion, so I will have to wait many months until they are released on DVD
If you read the article, when they say 'cutting cable' they mean cutting down premium service to basic service, with a few cutting it out entirely.
The 'one in eight to cut cable' title is very misleading. I'd like to see the numbers for people actually dropping cable altogether and not just reducing service. I'd say its more like one in several thousand if that.
We are planning on getting rid of the HD TV and PVR once I get my home made PVR working right
Not a troll, honestly wondering why people try and do this at all. The PVR from my cable company can record three hidef channels simultaneously, and I can watch a recorded fourth while that is going on. I have yet to see a home system that can do that, but maybe I'm just not up on the latest home builts. What is driving you to make your own?
If you had read the article in the first place, you would have known that Apple had already been contacted
I read the article and the statue. They called Apple. There are 75000 people there. They never got in contact with the one who lost the phone. I already said this and its clear in the article. They never reached anyone at Apple that believed the story. They could have very easily taken it down to the Apple store and left it there. But no they bought it from a fence for $5000.
that screams $25 knock-off
NO ONE will buy or sell a $25 phone for $5000. Clearly they believed the value was more than $100. It's like me seeing your car parked in front of my house. Clearly its abandoned and I'll just arbitrarily say its a piece of shit worth $75. According to you thats all it takes to be able to claim it. Moron.
You cited a law, I showed how it doesn't apply.
You INCORRECTLY showed how it doesn't apply to suit your own flawed logic. What kind of moronic argument is that?
BTW - I'm not the one being dense here.
But you are. And its incredibly clear to everyone but you that you are wrong and being a dense idiot about this.
The title is about Bluray but the article keeps referring to problems with the DVD version. Then states these problems are happening even on players that have been updated.
In contrast, the linked article states that this is only problematic for people who have never upgraded their Bluray player, and for all others its fine. It further states that there is no problem with the DRM on the bluray at all. It also never even mentions the DVD version.
DRM doesn't affect me but I haven't really decided whether it is good or bad overall. However when I see incoherent arguments, with half of the 'facts' made up just to support the authors blind hatred of DRM, it really makes you question whether the opposition is valid, or just from a bunch of kiddie criminals upset thye can no longer get free movies or make a few bucks selling pirated versions.
Did you stop to read the licence agreement from Sony that you must have agreed to when you plugged it in and went online? Among other things it states that they can upgrade or remove functionality as they see fit.
You personally may not like it but thats the agreement, and its no different than any other software agreement out there. Certainly not grounds for a class action lawsuit - this should clearly be thrown out.
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But it does make NASA part of the military/industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address
Having contractors that happen to also do business with the military does not make NASA part of the MIC. NASA simply does not do enough business for a subcontractor to solely depend on that income. They take military contracts to survive - that and the military contracts are far more lucrative than the NASA ones.
a cozy relationship between military bureaucrats whose career depends on certain programs with contractors who profit by those programs and the Congressmen they have in their pockets.
Completely agree with this point. Business and politics should be forced to remain apart. These Republicans trying to porkbarrel money for their own benefit are just disgusting. They should be thrown out of office.
NASA is military spending because most of NASA's contractors contract for the military. NASA is also a military organisation, believe it or not
Yes, most of NASAs contractors also contract for the military because it just makes sense, but that does not make NASA a military organization.
Did you know that the Air Force budget for space development and operations actually exceeds that of the entire NASA budget?
Speaking as a NASA contractor, NASA is definitely NOT military.
Ok, thanks for answering and sorry for my ignorance on this.
What capture cards are recommended? Do I just split my cable from the wall into as many inputs as I need and feed them individually to each capture card?
How many channels can it record simultaneously? If it's just one (the one I'm watching) this does not seem to be a viable PVR replacement.
Nice list, but:
(Massive storage space) - have yet to run out (I keep a month of backlogged programs occasionally if I get behind), and I can tell it to automatically delete the oldest or specific shows to make room if necessary.
(Record by show name) - Yup. This is useful when the broadcaster moves the timeslot, the show still records regardless of when it actually came on, even if they move it to a different day.
(Pause live TV): Yup.
(Upscale SD content to 1080p): Yup.
My PVR can record up to three HD/SD channels simultaneously. And I can watch a prerecorded fourth. Can a homegrown do that? For this reason I use cable and not satellite (that and satellite guide searches are ridiculously slow).
Some of the others are useful, some I would not use.
What capabilities are you not seeing in the DIY version? I haven't seen any DIY PVR systems that didn't have every feature under the sun
Well primarily with my DVR I can record/watch three shows simultaneously, whether they are HD or regular. I don't actually watch a lot but for some reason the shows i want to watch are on the same time or overlap. So I find if I'm watching something, one or sometimes two programs could also be recording, or I could be watching a pre-recorded and have three others recording. Haven't seen a home version that can do that.
I'll just roll my own PVR
I have yet to see a home built PVR with the capabilities of the PVR that comes from the cable company. Until it does, home rolled PVRs are just an interesting project, but not a viable alternative (for me anyway).
I don't know why anyone bothers to record a movie in a theater on a handycam, or worse still actually pays money to buy a movie recorded in that manner. The quality is pathetic. Complete waste of time and money.
If you have a region 1 player, it will play anything, wont it?
Harper / Obama are the best thing to happen to North America since the glaciers receded.
Alas, certain shows (such as the new Doctor Who series) are not accessible in that fashion, so I will have to wait many months until they are released on DVD
You can watch Doctor Who here on Space: http://www.spacecast.com/shows/doctorwho/episodes.aspx [spacecast.com]
There is no legal way to get the new Doctor Who eps in a reasonable amount of time in the US anyway.
Get them here on Space: http://www.spacecast.com/shows/doctorwho/episodes.aspx
Yes, the hidef PVR adds up. But its nice to record three hidef shows simultaneously, and watch a recorded fourth if I wanted.
186?? Holy crap. I pay about $140 for HD cable, PVR high speed internet and cell phone.
If you read the article, when they say 'cutting cable' they mean cutting down premium service to basic service, with a few cutting it out entirely.
The 'one in eight to cut cable' title is very misleading. I'd like to see the numbers for people actually dropping cable altogether and not just reducing service. I'd say its more like one in several thousand if that.
We just PVR everything and skip the commercials.
Whats wrong with outside? No porn on demand?
I've noticed a growing trend among channels to remotely disable recording ("Channel xxx Doesn't Allow Recording.")
Really? Wow - I've never seen that on any of the channels I get (HD premium package). I think I would ditch my subscription if I encountered that.
We are planning on getting rid of the HD TV and PVR once I get my home made PVR working right
Not a troll, honestly wondering why people try and do this at all. The PVR from my cable company can record three hidef channels simultaneously, and I can watch a recorded fourth while that is going on. I have yet to see a home system that can do that, but maybe I'm just not up on the latest home builts. What is driving you to make your own?
If you had read the article in the first place, you would have known that Apple had already been contacted
I read the article and the statue. They called Apple. There are 75000 people there. They never got in contact with the one who lost the phone. I already said this and its clear in the article. They never reached anyone at Apple that believed the story. They could have very easily taken it down to the Apple store and left it there. But no they bought it from a fence for $5000.
that screams $25 knock-off
NO ONE will buy or sell a $25 phone for $5000. Clearly they believed the value was more than $100. It's like me seeing your car parked in front of my house. Clearly its abandoned and I'll just arbitrarily say its a piece of shit worth $75. According to you thats all it takes to be able to claim it. Moron.
You cited a law, I showed how it doesn't apply.
You INCORRECTLY showed how it doesn't apply to suit your own flawed logic. What kind of moronic argument is that?
BTW - I'm not the one being dense here.
But you are. And its incredibly clear to everyone but you that you are wrong and being a dense idiot about this.
Wow you are dense.
And right now, the word is... fail.
Right now the word is ... worst summary ever.
The title is about Bluray but the article keeps referring to problems with the DVD version. Then states these problems are happening even on players that have been updated.
In contrast, the linked article states that this is only problematic for people who have never upgraded their Bluray player, and for all others its fine. It further states that there is no problem with the DRM on the bluray at all. It also never even mentions the DVD version.
DRM doesn't affect me but I haven't really decided whether it is good or bad overall. However when I see incoherent arguments, with half of the 'facts' made up just to support the authors blind hatred of DRM, it really makes you question whether the opposition is valid, or just from a bunch of kiddie criminals upset thye can no longer get free movies or make a few bucks selling pirated versions.
If I could magically cad-cam-3d-print-replicate a car I would without a second thought. So would every bible-thumping person on the planet.
So what you are saying is because software is so easy to copy duplicate and distribute, no one values their work so it's not really worth anything..
Did you stop to read the licence agreement from Sony that you must have agreed to when you plugged it in and went online? Among other things it states that they can upgrade or remove functionality as they see fit.
You personally may not like it but thats the agreement, and its no different than any other software agreement out there. Certainly not grounds for a class action lawsuit - this should clearly be thrown out.
Sony is not forcing the change - don't accept the new update.