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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe you can V-chip the DVR?
If a movie is downloaded to a harddrive, and no one is there to watch it, does it still make a noise?
Maybe, but the chip would have to prevent it from downloading to the harddrive.
If a movie is downloaded to a harddrive, and no one is there to watch it, does it still make a noise?
Depends on the jurisdiction.
the chip would have to prevent it from downloading to the harddrive
That's what I was thinking.