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The HDTV Dilemma:
Pay for TiVo's Recorder
Or Settle for Cable's?Walter Mossberg
December 28, 2006
If you just got a high-definition television, one of the best things you can buy to complement it is a digital video recorder, or DVR, the tapeless gadgets that save programs so you can watch them when you choose.
The trouble is, it's hard to find a DVR that can record in high definition, so most people wind up simply going with the bare-bones high-definition DVR capability built into the set-top box supplied by their cable or satellite service.
But TiVo, the pioneer in digital video recording, has recently entered the high-definition recorder market with a high-end, high-priced product. It's called the TiVo Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder and it sells for a whopping $800, as much as some HDTVs themselves.
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116726248529661013.html?mod=gadgets_primary_hs_lt (Open in New Window)
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It happened last night.Being a long-suffering Oklahoma State football fan, I recorded the otherwise meaningless Independence Bowl yesterday to watch last night (broadcast in HD on ESPN's channel). Late in the fourth quarter, Okie State had a two touchdown lead that they (in typical fashion of late) gave up with a punt return and a fumble on the ensuing kickoff. So, late in the fourth, with the game tied at 31, OSU drives to ten yard line. With 13 seconds to go in the game the Cowboys line up for the field goal, the recording hits 3:30 in length, AND FUCKING ENDS!
FUCK! I checked the disk; only 39% full. I need to check if there is a default max recording length that I can change, or if the recording stops when the program guide says the program ends (which makes it tough for sporting events. Overtime?). I guess for sports I'll have to program the subsequent scheduled program(s) to make sure I can catch all of the action. (They made the field goal and won the game, BTW).
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
I heard folks complain that if your cable provider does that "this is only a test" thing, it will knock out the DVR recording. Nothin you can do about it. :(
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Expect an Alien Attack by AuPh... did you pee into his tea one day?
Hey, whatever floats your 19th century Napoleonic dinghy. ;^)AuPh
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You can elicit any response you wish from him.
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... as low as Victor's? BTW, unless I'm mistaken, given the context of your sentence the proper grammar should be "You are more correct than I," professor. ;^)Cheers,
AuPh
> > > "You can elicit any response you wish from him." < < <Baloney! I don't usually introduce new topics unless I have some first hand information that I wish to share and those posts are rarely controversial or confrontational. My responses, more often than not, are in defense of good films that are unfairly trashed, a reaction to cut'n pasted reviews and/or subjectively pompous behavior. Sometimes those are confrontational, but not without just cause.
OTOH, many of your introduced posts are so predictable that they go be-yawn-d monotonous! In fact, one can usually predict the very nature of what you'll post on any given film or topic to elicit negative reactions (as opposed to responding to comments with which you agree or disagree). In other words, like the ignoble pot, you have a natural affinity for calling the kettle black while producing lots of sooty smoke to obfuscate facts!
BTW, did I mention that you seem to get a perverse pleasure in stirring things to the boiling point and that you like to brown-nose certain folks in public? ;^)
Cheers,
AuPh
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