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I think they need to rethink their pricing model and start partnering with cable companies.
When I was having troubles with my Charter DVR, they said they were Alpha testing a TiVo box in Texas that was TiVo for recording, and allowed On Demand stuff as well. All in a Charter approved box, no cards needed. That was 2 years ago. When I moved, and that crappy Win3.1 looking box started making nasty noise on the sound outputs, they gave me a new box. I was hoping it was the TiVo vesion. Nope. Same software, just running on a newer machine. So, thankfully it doesn't lag anymore. But the GUI looks straight out of Win3.1. Ugly color schemes. The worst directory archetecture for On Demand. Eh. But improved performance, so not looking to switch to TiVo at this point.
I'm sure better UI is being developed right now :)
Yeah, I was waiting for the Charter/Tivo partnership as well. Unfortunately it never made it out of Alpha testing. Here is the official statement on their site.
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My TiVo Premiere (lifetime sub) now does OnDemand(Comcast) in addition to the Netflix, Hulu, YouTube,etc. I love having the OnDemand access because it allows me to save my TiVo space for movies.
In a weird way, if the new TiVo would let me have Time Warner On Demand (I'd resigned myself to never having it), re-upping the lifetime membership is a little more worth it--but the principle remains the same.
I mentioned in Bitches that I am finally letting go of 5 working macs in my possession.
Having just acquired a new/used mini on which I discovered all sorts of residual data from the previous owner, I'd like very much to erase everything on my hard drives.
I do not, however, have installation disks for the OS.
On this one, I am currently erasing free space, which is supposed to take care of previously deleted material. I've deleted all the photos and docs and will delete all the non essential apps once that's done, but it is taking an AGE.
Short of taking a hammer or a Wile E. Coyote sized magnet to the other boxes, is there anything else I can do to erase them?
A complete reformat of the drive using the secure erase settings in Disk Utility and then reinstalling the OS from scratch is what I always do with machines I'm selling.
I want into Disk Utility for just that reason, but the erase function would not let me select the drive. It was greyed out, and the 'security options' button was non-functioning.
I went to the forums and read that I need install disks to boot from in order to erase the disk. It makes sense, I guess, but I cannot erase the disk I am using to erase the disk!
Is there a work around I am missing?
That's correct. You need to boot from an install disk, because once you erase the disk the computer won't be able to boot until to reinstall an OS.
On the Mac I use Roxio Toast to copy stuff off a Tivo HD onto the Mac and then convert for playback on iPods and Android devices. I think I've only run into DRM issues once or twice doing that and not in a long time.
