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- smhill, on 10/12/2007, -10/+23Hey great! Another link to an commentary on an article somewhere else. Stupid blog pimping crap from a crappy hyperbolic blog. Read the real article here:
http://www.eff.org/IP/pnp/cablewp.php
The Buggles song reference is lame and misused. - Darph.Bobo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Magnus
"Am I the only one who is tired of hearing a reference to that song everywhere? I was born in 1992 I shouldn't even know it exsisted."
So following that line of flawed logic you shouldn't even know Mozart, Beethoven, The Beatles, Lincoln, Washington or Hitler existed.
BTW, did you know spell checkers exist? - rouben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9By the time HD becomes mainstream, 2 gigs or 3 gigs of storage would be equivalent to today's 200-300 megabytes, which is not much at all and can fit on a single CD. Just like today you can get standard definition (i.e. standard definition) TV shows that are 200-300MB each, you will later on be getting HD TV shows that are 2-3 gigs. I don't see where the big deal is, especially with hard drive capacities approaching 1TB limits, and their prices dropping at the same time. Yes, you can get a 750GB (that's *gigs*) hard drive right now for $300. That's less than $0.50/gigabyte, which works out to less than $2 per TV episode. And the cost will only go down in the future.
And DRM "phobia" is not *****. I beg to differ. I find it damned inconvenient not to be able to download tracks off my MiniDisc player onto my work computer, just because of DRM restrictions. What if I want to listen to these tracks on my work computer? Why shouldn't I be able to do that?
Furthermore, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray won't stay for data backup purposes forever. Before you know it, they will have video applications as well. You will see high-def video camcorders that can record directly to HD-DVD or Blu-Ray media.
Now IS the time to act, because once these things (like HD TiVo) get poisoned with DRM restrictions, it will be too late to do anything. The time to act is now, when the standards are just being developed and shaped. - drlha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Should you not have heard of The Beatles either, or Mozart?
- Nation, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11don't digg down smhill -- smhill is 100% correct.
Here is one of the few things stated to someone submitting a post to digg:
"Link Directly to the Source: Save people time by linking directly to the original news story."
source: http://digg.com/submit
If the site that linked to does not provide extra content or commentary .... it is at least "lame" and at most "spam" - piper999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm not sure if I would lump Mozart in with Buggles.
- flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5so does this meen there is no more TivoToGo? I checked their website and I couldnt find it anymore.
- SoxFanNH, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Or you can get a HD tuner for your computer and compress a 1hr show down to 350MB...
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmm, my MythTV has no DRM and streams its shows, and more, over the internet.
- FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Unfortunately, you'll need a cablecard compatible system to receive that HD signal over cable. And as far as I know there are no cablecard components for the build it yourself market.
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can record HD off of cable channels in Clear QAM.
- Kahamri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did you get licensing to use the likeness of the song for the title? Here somes the RIAA, watch out.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DRM is gonna kill YouTube also....Napster 2.0 anyone ?
- grubesteak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google.
http://www.tivo.com/4.9.4.1.asp - timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope everyone realizes that TivoToGo isn't dead, just not supported out of the box. It's very possible that they will add it back later.
Tivo has a *lot* to gain from getting it in there. Tivo Desktop Plus is another $30 for them if they get it working. Same goes for MRV, since that encourages people to get another Tivo and pay another subscription fee. Basically, there are plenty of financial reasons to get these features added, and that's the kind of thing that motivates companies the most. - weareallzombies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1TivoToGo is NOT dead. It just wasn't included at launch. According to the FAQ regarding the Series3 HD devices, they expect TivoToGo and Multi-Room Viewing to be activated via a software download once the new versions with HD support are ready.
http://www.tivo.com/2.0.3hdDvr.faq.asp#8 - weareallzombies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1TivoToGo is NOT dead. It just wasn't included at launch. According to the FAQ regarding the Series3 HD devices, they expect TivoToGo and Multi-Room Viewing to be activated via a software download once the new versions with HD support are ready.
http://www.tivo.com/2.0.3hdDvr.faq.asp#8 - FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2MythTV can't record with cablecard, simply because no linux or build it yourself systems will have cablecard support. So you won't be able to record HD off of cable with MythTV.
- oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1see also: http://digg.com/television/Hollywood_Continues_Its_Attack_On_Consumers
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ahhh an 80's song title copy!
Video killed the radio star. - sremick, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I also agree with Nation and smhill. Not only is it common sense and on the official submission instructions, it's also #4 on my guide:
http://digg.sremick.net/ - r121, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Neat
- ibeetle, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2This is nothing more than DRM paranoid *****. Tivo ToGo HD was not killed it just hasn't been developed yet. Can you imagine the size of a 1 hour television program in high definition? 2 gigs? 3 gigs? And after you move it to your computer what are you going to do with it? There are no high definition players for computers. The high definition burners (both HD DVD and Blu-ray) are for data backup purposes only.
High definition Tivo's are only a few months old, why don't we give them a year (work out sofware bugs, deals with cable companies, second generation hardware, etc.) before we all wring our hands in grief on how the demise of Tivo is only days away.
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