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DCJensen - Jan 06, 2005 6:40:12 pm PST #1000 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Gris - Jan 06, 2005 6:55:39 pm PST #1001 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Really, 1024 should be the numberslot of choice in this thread.
DCJensen - Jan 06, 2005 7:31:22 pm PST #1002 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Aha. You are indeed correct. I was rounding off like the Hard drive manufacturers...
Wolfram - Jan 07, 2005 7:48:18 am PST #1003 of 10003
Visilurking
Replay comes with free DVD burning software?
Hmmm, on reread that was a bit of a tall tale. No, Replay has free software (or it may be 3rd party software) called DVarchive which lets you rip movies off your replay on to your pc and burn them as VCDs. They would work in many DVD players, but they're not DVDs.
Sorry for the overzealousness confusion.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2005 10:26:08 am PST #1004 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In a staggering blow to TiVo, DirecTV, which had been the digital recorder manufacturer's biggest customer, said on Thursday that it would begin offering its own video recorders to customers later this year, the New York Times reported today (Friday). Currently two thirds of TiVo's devices are installed in DirecTV households. "We will still support our TiVo service, but our core marketing and sales efforts will be with our new DVR," Bob Marsocci, a DirecTV spokesman, told the Times. The new DirecTV recorder will be manufactured by British-based NDS, which is owned by News Corp, which, in turn, owns a 34-percent controlling stake in DirecTV. The new recorder will also download movies from the DirecTV satellite and store them on its hard drive, thereby making them available to subscribers on demand. Customers will pay for them only if they watch them.
Pfft. I was thinking of going DirecTiVo in a year or so.
DXMachina - Jan 07, 2005 10:51:02 am PST #1005 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The new recorder will also download movies from the DirecTV satellite and store them on its hard drive, thereby making them available to subscribers on demand. Customers will pay for them only if they watch them.
So, in other words, we're gonna suck up your storage and bandwidth on the outside chance that you're gonna need to watch Horny Cheerleaders from Kuzbain II - The Curse of the Pesky Penis at 3:57 a.m. some lonely Saturday night.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2005 10:52:02 am PST #1006 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder how big the hard drives will be in those installs. I still have Wonderfalls on my TiVo, and it'll stay there until the DVDs come out, dammit.
DXMachina - Jan 07, 2005 10:58:50 am PST #1007 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Ya know, I wonder what the legal ramifications would be for someone if they downloaded a movie to the box that didn't quite meet local community standards. They're storing the movie on a harddrive in your home, and by signing the terms of service, you're allowing them to do it.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2005 10:59:38 am PST #1008 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe you can V-chip the DVR?
Jon B. - Jan 07, 2005 11:00:01 am PST #1009 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
If a movie is downloaded to a harddrive, and no one is there to watch it, does it still make a noise?