I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.

Giles ,'Selfless'


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omnis_audis - Dec 17, 2013 7:56:51 am PST #23398 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Basically a VCR, but digital. I'm curious if there is any DRM's.


Steph L. - Dec 17, 2013 8:20:26 am PST #23399 of 25496
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Oooh. As a cable-less OTA viewer, I would be all over that.


NoiseDesign - Dec 17, 2013 8:36:43 am PST #23400 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

But at $250 it only includes 16 GB of flash memory which is only good for a 2 hour recording time. You'd need to add a hard drive to make it even usable.


meara - Dec 17, 2013 8:56:34 am PST #23401 of 25496

Yeah, that's what I noticed. Boo.


omnis_audis - Dec 17, 2013 8:59:45 am PST #23402 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I wonder if there is an option to record at lesser quality level (think VCR speeds of SP, LP, SLP). Not sure digital can do that. But at 2 hours, it's pretty much EXACTLY like an old VCR. I wonder if you can remove the flash memory, and insert another (i.e., is it a card? Or soldered into the circuit board).


Jessica - Dec 17, 2013 9:00:30 am PST #23403 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

But you can but a 4TB drive for less than the cost of a Tivo lifetime subscription.


megan walker - Dec 17, 2013 9:10:30 am PST #23404 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

One day I need to figure out if an indoor OTA antenna will work here. I do miss PBS.


Steph L. - Dec 17, 2013 9:19:15 am PST #23405 of 25496
I look more rad than Lutheranism

We have a TV that's new enough to pick up digital signals, so we get about 8 PBS stations. Seriously. So much Word Girl and Masterpiece Theatre.


megan walker - Dec 17, 2013 9:24:55 am PST #23406 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

For some reason, my Smart TV, which connects me to almost everything else via built-in WiFi, does not have any sort of built-in antenna.

I used to get basic channels via the existing cable, but now Comcast encrypts everything here. (Coming soon to a state near you, assuming most companies will eventually take advantage of the recent FCC ruling).


Atropa - Dec 17, 2013 12:34:30 pm PST #23407 of 25496
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Anyone want to help me figure out why the RSS feed on my site is not working? This is the error message: error on line 1 at column 20: Specification mandate value for attribute wp-config.php