I remember when TiVos cost over $1000 for the 14-hour model. DVD players used to cost upwards of $2000. My first CD burner was the size of a large toaster oven and burned $40 discs.
Times change. Prices fall. Technology moves on.
This TiVo has a lot of power in that box, and the cablecards take it to a whole new level. This is one case where the mythtv fanboys can't say "Just build one yourself." It will be a good long while before we see oss for cablecard and encrypted video decoding due to the tight restrictions on that standard.
And I'm with Overzeetop - at $400 I'd buy one.
CELL may be powerful, but only if the programmers can write for it. Parallel programming isn't something many coders are used to. There are early reports of exactly this - the programmers are having a hard time coverting to this parallel environment. Only time will tell if they make the transition.
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I remember when TiVos cost over $1000 for the 14-hour model. DVD players used to cost upwards of $2000. My first CD burner was the size of a large toaster oven and burned $40 discs. Times change. Prices fall. Technology moves on. This TiVo has a lot of power in that box, and the cablecards take it to a whole new level. This is one case where the mythtv fanboys can't say "Just build one yourself." It will be a good long while before we see oss for cablecard and encrypted video decoding due to the tight restrictions on that standard. And I'm with Overzeetop - at $400 I'd buy one.
CELL may be powerful, but only if the programmers can write for it. Parallel programming isn't something many coders are used to. There are early reports of exactly this - the programmers are having a hard time coverting to this parallel environment. Only time will tell if they make the transition.
4 minutes load times??? Unacceptable.
from: http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2100/could_the_p laystation