The way Dish DVRs in general work is that they record the encrypted, compressed (and currently MPEG2, MPEG4 coming early next year) broadcast stream directly to the drive.
Then, every time it's played back, they decrypt it using a smartcard and hardware MPEG decoder just before outputting the video.
Are you 100% certain about this? If this were true then they could never do complete keychanges, there would always have to be a 'dvr' key which would unlock old content, and new content would have to include this key as well. Otherwise evertime the keys changed old content wouldn't work.
Hmm.. Checking the DishRip yahoo group there's no mention of Nagravision keys so I'm pretty sure you're off-base here. And really, it makes for a VERY complicated system the way you describe.
Poor coward.. I'll rescue you from the 'beneath my threshold pergatory'
Put them all in a box with a cheap mobo with raid controller, have it run linux, and do some haxoring to expose it as a ginormous HDD to the firewire port.
I think what you suggest is excellent. I imagine there is a IP over fireware module for Linux, so you could use Samba to get at the big drive you suggest.
What would be cooler is if you could create a great big raided partition on a linux box which could be mounted as a USB or firewire drive on another. The huge partition wouldn't me mounted locally at all, just ready to be served to hot-plug clients.
Ok, so the guy goes to great lengths to build a 6 drive 1.2TB external storage device.
Doesn't menton how the drives become one.. It's not raid-5 as that would be 5X200MB + 1 parity drive. So it's either striped, or the large volume properties were faked.
IMO buying 6 drives and not running RAID 5 is really dumb.
First off, I am not an actor or drama student, nor have I ever been.
When Gollum stared, and spoke into the camera, while experiencing the inner conflict, he interrupted my experience of watching the movie. He was looking at me sitting in a theatre watching a movie, this realization ruined the movie for me.
Art-house plays use this all the time, because to drama students it's daring and dangerous. They forget that there's a good reason it isn't done more. It's annoying to someone who really likes to suspend disbelief and get into their entertainment.
This is why he didn't deserve an oscar nomination.
500 % markup huh? I would still be in the hardware business if it was. You're way off.. Mod -3 uninformed and wrong.
Basically the entire hardware industry runs off slim margins.
I heard Dell runs at about 6%. Most distributors run a 1-2% margin, computer stores anywhere from 5-10%.
As for the manufacturers, I haven't a clue, but they must have astronomical costs.
Buying in bulk isn't that big of a deal anymore. When a company goes ITQ (invitation to quote) the vendors know they aren't going to win unless they at least halve their markup.
Why bother with all this crap? If terrorists wanted to communicate, they would just browse to a webserver which could be anywhere, get the info they need and get out.
They would likely have a code, maybe use wiki, or forum software, even a java irc client..
Do this from an internet cafe and they're laughing..
The Olympics are cool if you can avoid watching it on american network coverage. God what a load of flag waving. Only americans can win, and when they don't... Well they should have but...
Thank you CBC for providing relatively non-biased coverage..
It's a minor screw-up, I mean were they trying to align with a moon or what?
For someone like me who just wants to evaluate stable software, and somehow push it to the Microsoft head's in my company this is a great thing. Keep all the bugfixes in a current release.
People are getting pretty sick of installing service pack on service pack.. "Hmmm.. Better set up a test server for NT 4 SP6 Beta 2.."
The ones who are whining about a 6.1 release half a year after the 6.0 release are the ones who would probably be happier with windows 95...
Well not Quake, but we played Tekken 2, Gran Turismo, and all other 30 PSX games I have on a 20 foot diagonal screen using a Proxima projector.. Great fun..
Actually the best part was when the cat tried repeatedly to attack the projected images.. Boing.. MEOW... Boing.. MEOW...
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Are you 100% certain about this? If this were true then they could never do complete keychanges, there would always have to be a 'dvr' key which would unlock old content, and new content would have to include this key as well. Otherwise evertime the keys changed old content wouldn't work.
Hmm.. Checking the DishRip yahoo group there's no mention of Nagravision keys so I'm pretty sure you're off-base here. And really, it makes for a VERY complicated system the way you describe.
The satellite and cable providers don't have the bandwidth to send much more HD content down.
They can up-sample any content to HD res, but without the bandwidth to make it look nice it will look horrible.
What we will have when HD is mandated in 2006 or whenever is a whole bunch of pixellated high resolution channels.
The whole thing is a complete waste of time before the carriers are ready.
Poor coward.. I'll rescue you from the 'beneath my threshold pergatory'
Put them all in a box with a cheap mobo with raid controller, have it run linux, and do some haxoring to expose it as a ginormous HDD to the firewire port.
I think what you suggest is excellent. I imagine there is a IP over fireware module for Linux, so you could use Samba to get at the big drive you suggest.
What would be cooler is if you could create a great big raided partition on a linux box which could be mounted as a USB or firewire drive on another. The huge partition wouldn't me mounted locally at all, just ready to be served to hot-plug clients.
Ian
Ok, so the guy goes to great lengths to build a 6 drive 1.2TB external storage device.
Doesn't menton how the drives become one.. It's not raid-5 as that would be 5X200MB + 1 parity drive. So it's either striped, or the large volume properties were faked.
IMO buying 6 drives and not running RAID 5 is really dumb.
Sure is a purty case though.
Holy, you all missed something. Didn't you notice it was a little strange when Neo stopped those robot critters in the real world?
That's the cliff hanger.
First off, I am not an actor or drama student, nor have I ever been.
When Gollum stared, and spoke into the camera, while experiencing the inner conflict, he interrupted my experience of watching the movie. He was looking at me sitting in a theatre watching a movie, this realization ruined the movie for me.
Art-house plays use this all the time, because to drama students it's daring and dangerous. They forget that there's a good reason it isn't done more. It's annoying to someone who really likes to suspend disbelief and get into their entertainment.
This is why he didn't deserve an oscar nomination.
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You need that kind of power to drive a TV????
This is a bit ridiculous, no a lot ridiculous..
I suppose one day there will be a console which can actually run HDTV, but then will the average joe with the NTSC TV buy it?
500 % markup huh? I would still be in the hardware business if it was. You're way off.. Mod -3 uninformed and wrong.
Basically the entire hardware industry runs off slim margins.
I heard Dell runs at about 6%. Most distributors run a 1-2% margin, computer stores anywhere from 5-10%.
As for the manufacturers, I haven't a clue, but they must have astronomical costs.
Buying in bulk isn't that big of a deal anymore. When a company goes ITQ (invitation to quote) the vendors know they aren't going to win unless they at least halve their markup.
Are you sure you didn't learn it watching Canadian Bacon?
Why bother with all this crap? If terrorists wanted to communicate, they would just browse to a webserver which could be anywhere, get the info they need and get out.
They would likely have a code, maybe use wiki, or forum software, even a java irc client..
Do this from an internet cafe and they're laughing..
What am I missing?
"my hauppage TV/vid capture can compress into DivX in real time,"
No it doesn't.. You card gives the raw data to your PC which encodes it..
Its scary what venture capital can produce..
This guy is probably spending some of each of our money which we have invested in mutual funds.
Linux would be a better choice, Windows would even be a better choice. What happens if this takes off and Apple dies?
I wonder how long before some hacker emulates this???
Because I can dammit!
The Olympics are cool if you can avoid watching it on american network coverage. God what a load of flag waving. Only americans can win, and when they don't... Well they should have but...
Thank you CBC for providing relatively non-biased coverage..
Fast I/O won't let me decode DIVX....
Besides, the PC world has fast enough IO.. PCI hardware raid with 7 UW/SCSI drives will shoot enough data at a processor to keep it happy..
Obviously no-one here has tried mountainbiking with glasses..... Anyone here mountain bike?
How about Kayaking. Glasses are less than optimal.
And the list goes on and on.
It's a minor screw-up, I mean were they trying to align with a moon or what?
For someone like me who just wants to evaluate stable software, and somehow push it to the Microsoft head's in my company this is a great thing. Keep all the bugfixes in a current release.
People are getting pretty sick of installing service pack on service pack.. "Hmmm.. Better set up a test server for NT 4 SP6 Beta 2.."
The ones who are whining about a 6.1 release half a year after the 6.0 release are the ones who would probably be happier with windows 95...
Well not Quake, but we played Tekken 2, Gran Turismo, and all other 30 PSX games I have on a 20 foot diagonal screen using a Proxima projector.. Great fun..
Actually the best part was when the cat tried repeatedly to attack the projected images.. Boing.. MEOW... Boing.. MEOW...
Dumb cat..
No No No.. Quebec is key in my Native Land Claims settlement... Well Actually that is the settlement..
Bye Jean!!