33 month ago
Rod Begbie : Call Me Fishmeal.: This Post is Microsoft Enhanced (TM) - Awesome post about the brokenness of "MIcrosoft Enhanced" cable company PVRs. #
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38 month ago
deusx : myTV.PVR - Personal Video Recorder for your Mac - "myTV.PVR turns your Mac into a Personal Video Recorder - a virtual VCR and TV replacement when set to full screen TV mode."
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39 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: TiVo won't save certain shows or allow moving them - "I sold my TiVo when I left California. You can be goddamned sure I won't be buying another one. Ever"
Nelson Minar : Stupid TiVo choice - Not letting me save shows is going to make me hate your product
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39 month ago
Andy Baio : TiVo adds copyright protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - this is a terrible move; I feel personally betrayed as an evangelist of their product since 2000
jkottke : TiVo hates its customers - TiVo's new OS adds content "protection", which means if the copyright holder of Seinfeld wants your TiVo to delete the show after a week whether you've watched it or not, that's what it's going to do. I love my TiVo and I'm currently suffering from outrag [via]
veen : TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - A bug? Maybe, but a also a glimpse of a DRMed future...
Nelson Minar : More TiVo stupidity - Matt breaks it down (via Marc)
plasticbag : TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - Lots of discussion about this one. Basically it's a PVR with rights controls imposed from the studios and broadcasters - designed for pay-per-view stuff...
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41 month ago
plasticbag : A beautiful intriguing gadget on the Apple Store: EyeTV for Digital Terrestrial TV. Currently quite wanting one of these... - "EyeTV for DTT allows you to watch, record, pause and rewind free-to-air Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) on your Macintosh in crystal clear digital quality."
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45 month ago
plasticbag : The Project for Open Source Media - "POSM (The Project for Open Source Media) is an independent research and development entity for the development and deployment of a standardized Open Media Platform."
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jimray : EFF: Cooking with EFF: KnoppMyth r5a5 and pcHDTV for DTV Liberation - Now that TiVo is on deathwatch and everyone's decided Comcast's DVR pretty much blows (it kinda does), building your own may be the way of the future [via boingboing]
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plasticbag : What happens to the water-cooler moment when TV is consumed on-demand? - Michael Sippey on the creation of episode-based micro-communities for people who consume TV episodes after-the-fact...
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48 month ago
Andy Baio : Videora, the BitTorrent RSS reader - with "Season Passes" and "Wishlists" [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader - A pretty looking app, which does the same thing as the Azureus RSS plugin. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader - Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader: watch what you want, when you want, from anywhere in the world
plasticbag : Videora combines RSS with BitTorrent to create a download-based PVR equivalent - Mooted a lot last year, very interesting stuff, windows-only which kind of sucks, apparently no better than the RSS plug-in for Azureus...
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plasticbag : Death of video recorder in sight - The death of the video cassette recorder appears to be in sight after the UK's largest electrical chain said it is to stop selling them. Dixons will phase out VCRs due to the boom in DVD players, sales of which have grown seven-fold in five years.
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