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Build your own media library by burning TiVoToGo transferred shows to DVD with the purchase of Sonic's MyDVD software.
Too bad ReplayTV has had this feature available with free software for, oh, about two to three years now.
Damn you Tivo, and your marketing geniuses.
Thomas William Slattery has filed a class action suit against Apple Computer Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging Apple is guilt of violating federal antitrust laws and California's unfair competition law by requiring users who buy music from the iTunes Music Store to use an iPod if they plan to take their music on the road with them. Slattery's suit cuts to the heart of an ongoing issue related to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology present in commercial downloaded music.
I doubt he'll win. Somebody more lawyerly than me will need to confirm this, but my understanding is that it applies more to either a horizontal monopoly (i.e. iTunes was the ONLY means of downloading music legally, or the iPod was the ONLY portable digital music player) or a more complete vertical monopoly (They also owned the record company, and only allowed that record company to release music via iTunes).
Too bad ReplayTV has had this feature available with free software for, oh, about two to three years now.
Replay comes with free DVD burning software?
Yeah. The songs are essentially software. It's sort of equivalent to buying the Mac version of something like Word or PageMaker. If you then decide to switch over to a PC, you need to buy the PC version.
(eta: re the class action suit.)
Why will I need to buy a DVD-burning software to burn the TiVo stuff? I don't like that. Hmph.
However, now I'm tempted to get the ethernet card for the TiVo. Or/and a wireless access. Hmmm. I mean, not that I NEED wireless in my apartment, seeing as how it's a tiny place, and I'm only ever using the laptop on my couch, but...
Technology post 1000 numberslut...
Really, 1024 should be the numberslot of choice in this thread.
Aha. You are indeed correct. I was rounding off like the Hard drive manufacturers...
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.