bizofshowbiz.com — Hollywood is increasingly using one old technique that industries that can no longer compete do: they get laws passed to stifle the competition. In this case I'm talking about TiVo's (TIVO) new Series3 HD model. It does have one strength that TV watchers will really like - the ability to record high definition programs. Now the bad news ...
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soxfannhOct 10, 2006
Or just get a TV card for you PC and record it and store in Divx, easy to do and no dumbass DRM
lavaOct 10, 2006
Hollywood continues it's attack on consumers... and I continue not caring because I get everything off bittorrent.All this talk about DRM, and it hasn't affected me one bit since Napster came out. As long as information is digitized, it will be copied, whether it has DRM or not. So why bother? They should just try something else. I wouldn't mind if my download of the daily show came with ads. Doesn't it feel like DRM is like the lottery? A tax on dumb people?
phlllOct 10, 2006
Stuff like this is making me less and less reliant on television. Why pay $1k+ for an HDTV and $800 for a "useless" TiVo? Put your money in other entertainment (or something that draws interest) and consider abandoning TV forever.Webcasting is where it will soon be at, anyway.
angelpOct 11, 2006
Are you serious? Why is it okay to do it with the S2 and not the S3? Plus, if you're familiar with recording HD, it takes up a large amount of space. With the capability of recording two shows at once, you're able to record a lot more content and you'll quickly run out of space. I'm constantly managing space on my HD DVR because I run out of room before I'm able to watch everything (especially when recording sports events). The whole point of a DVR is to watch programming at your leisure. Why shouldn't consumers be allowed to offload that to an external hard drive to watch later or to watch on the road?
sdo1Oct 11, 2006
Repeat after me... ALL DRM IS BAD. Period. There's no "kind of OK" DRM. It is ALL designed to restrict what you can and can do with media that you have rightfuly and legally acquired. I hear all the time people saying that the itunes DRM is OK because it doesn't really restrict the things they want to do. How on earth do you know what you'll want to do years from now? Maybe you'll want to re-sell it? Can't. Maybe you'll want to stream it to your living room on a device like a Roku? Can't.The best thing people can do is to reject it all. Don't buy itunes music. Don't buy HDDVD. Don't buy BluRay. Heck, the only reason I actually still buy DVDs is because the DRM is trivial to break so I can put the content on a media server or shrink it to put on my ipod (note... you can have a completely DRM-less ipod).
happyscrappyOct 11, 2006
Inaccurate.Dropping TiVo2Go was required to get CableCARD certification. That certification comes from CableLabs, which is run by the cable companies.There's no DMCA involved, just the rules enforced by a consortium of cable companies.Marked as inaccurate.
edlesmannOct 11, 2006
"Doesn't it feel like DRM is like the lottery? A tax on dumb people?"I would not say dumb people, rather honest people.If you download the media or if you make a purchase and strip out the DRM then you are free to do with the media whatever you want. You have the power to enjoy the entertainment how you see fit, make backup copies, and create new content with it.If you buy the media legally, and you abide within the legal restraints then there is no freedom and its very difficult to use. Its hard to be entertained because you can not do anything with it.DRM is the natzi prison camp for the honest man (/woman/child/beast/whatever).
lordingFeb 22, 2009
Quite shocking indeed.