DVRs are in 16% of US homes, I believe.
Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.
'Potential'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
le nubian - Apr 26, 2007 4:34:07 pm PDT #6433 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Kevin - Apr 26, 2007 11:05:44 pm PDT #6434 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Invisible Green - 6
Sorry, the FF thing and Tivo -- I thought Tivos had the ability to self skip adverts. Of course we have FF, but we don't have that. My reasoning here is this -- when DVR's broke in the UK, the one major one had the ability to skip advertisements automatically. That promoted legal action, which meant they had to drop the feature.
Jessica - Apr 27, 2007 3:16:46 am PDT #6435 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My reasoning here is this -- when DVR's broke in the UK, the one major one had the ability to skip advertisements automatically. That promoted legal action, which meant they had to drop the feature.
IIRC, that's exactly what happened here with ReplayTV (which is why Tivos only ever had FF).
Frankenbuddha - Apr 27, 2007 3:21:13 am PDT #6436 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Right, over here wasn't it decided to be a violation of the first amendment?
Kevin - Apr 27, 2007 5:07:00 am PDT #6437 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Word on the street is that Drive likely won't get a DVD release.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 27, 2007 5:23:42 am PDT #6438 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Word on the street is that Drive likely won't get a DVD release.
Can't say that suprises me, given that we didn't get THE INSIDE, and that at least had all episodes filmed and a final show that could act as a conclusion (at least from what I've heard) like WONDERFALLS did.
amych - Apr 27, 2007 5:40:00 am PDT #6439 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
wasn't it decided to be a violation of the first amendment?
Nah - it never had anything to do with the first amendment (which would only apply to the goverment, not private parties). Just a run-of-the-mill copyright infringement lawsuit by a bunch of networks against ReplayTV.
The case was dropped after Replay removed the feature in a later release, so nothing was ever decided, but it did give us the hi-larious spectacle of the head of Turner Broadcasting telling us that any time we don't watch commercials, we're stealing - but the networks would allow us to have bathroom breaks "within reason".
Relatedly, what on earth are we going to do in a world without Jack Valenti?
Topic!Cindy - Apr 27, 2007 5:41:34 am PDT #6440 of 10001
What is even happening?
but it did give us the hi-larious spectacle of the head of Turner Broadcasting telling us that any time we don't watch commercials, we're stealing - but the networks would allow us to have bathroom breaks "within reason".How thoughtful.
I suppose the Depends people had something to say about that, though.
Connie Neil - Apr 27, 2007 6:48:06 am PDT #6441 of 10001
brillig
Pretty soon we're going to go the Max Headroom route of not allowing Off buttons on the TV.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 27, 2007 6:50:07 am PDT #6442 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
but it did give us the hi-larious spectacle of the head of Turner Broadcasting telling us that any time we don't watch commercials, we're stealing - but the networks would allow us to have bathroom breaks "within reason"
I wish I'd been there to reply (hopefully with live network news cameras taping) "Thanks for giving me the final push I needed to abandon network TV forever. I'll have so much more time to read, exercise, and socialize now that I won't be stealing the commercial TV programming provided by arrogant morons such as yourself anymore!"