>
> That said when I called DirecTV to get HD channels (old TV wasn't
> HD) I
> was informed that DirecTV no longer has an agreement with TiVo and no
> longer offers DirecTivo. DirecTiVo is a combo box that combines all of
> the features of DirecTV with TiVo in one box. The UI rocks.
>
That is c
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On 5/22/07, Richard Soule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That said when I called DirecTV to get HD channels (old TV wasn't HD) I
was informed that DirecTV no longer has an agreement with TiVo and no
longer offers DirecTivo. DirecTiVo is a combo box that combines all of
the features of DirecTV with
>
> I don't know about the DirecTiVos but the regular TiVos don't do
> HD. Only the S3 which uses a CableCARD. I'm not sure it will work
> with DirecTV.
>
The HD DirecTiVo (can probably find on ebay) will do HD, but only for
premium channels, and they will be phased out eventually.
S3 wi
On 5/22/07, Richard Soule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My 11 year old TV crapped out yesterday so I ended up picking up a 50"
> 1080p Plasma (Panasonic TH50PZ700U).
> Wow! HDTV is really good. Blu-ray through the PS3 is pretty amazing. The
> BBC version of Planet Earth on Blu-ray is one of the mos
>
>> Anyone know if I'm getting ripped off? Should I really be paying
>> for a
>> new DVR when my old DVR is only 2 years old?
>
> I think the resounding answer will be yes, you're getting ripped
> off, but unfortunately, what can you do. When they started migrating,
> they'd already terminate
On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Anyone know if I'm getting ripped off? Should I really be paying
> >> for a
> >> new DVR when my old DVR is only 2 years old?
> > I think the resounding answer will be yes, you're getting ripped
> > off, but unfortunately, what can you do. W
On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> S3 will probably work with DirecTV with an IR blaster, but you won't
> get HD. Similar to the older SA TiVos
To the best of my knowledge:
The S3 will only work with terrestrial OTA or cable. No satellite.
It only has coax inputs (one each f
On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yah, that's really it.. What are your choices? Continue to get only a
> few HD channels for who knows how long then be forced to upgrade
> (probably without the discount) or switch to another provider of TV,
> all that are either more of a pain, c
>
> I'm seriously considering dropping my cable TV service and just
> using NetFlix or the Internet for everything. I was checking
> recently, and most of what I watch on TV now is available via NetFlix.
>
> There are benefits, too: No commercials to skip. No scenes/frames
> being deleted to
On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > S3 will probably work with DirecTV with an IR blaster, but you won't
> > get HD. Similar to the older SA TiVos
> The S3 has two CableCard slots and works fine with digital cable,
> including hi
On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well you're probably still going to get the "silly censorship" since
> the show you get from Netflix is probably going to be the same as
> what they showed over the air.
Fair point. I expect that's true for programming originally
intended for
On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yah, that's really it.. What are your choices? Continue to get only a
> > few HD channels for who knows how long then be forced to upgrade
> > (probably without the discount) or switch to anothe
On 05/22/2007 12:21 PM, Travis Roy wrote:
>> Internet distribution (the legal kind) is becoming more and more
>> viable all the time. It's not there yet, but I'm watching closely (no
>> pun intended).
>>
>
> Could you share some of your sources? Most of the stuff I've found is
> either no
On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The S3 has two CableCard slots and works fine with digital cable,
> > including high def. However, satellite TV is not as heavily regulated
> > as cable TV, so the satellite industry does
On Tuesday, May 22nd 2007 at 12:12 -0400, quoth Ben Scott:
=>On 5/22/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>> Yah, that's really it.. What are your choices? Continue to get only a
=>> few HD channels for who knows how long then be forced to upgrade
=>> (probably without the discount) or switc
On Tuesday, May 22nd 2007 at 13:39 -0400, quoth Mark Komarinski:
=>On 05/22/2007 12:21 PM, Travis Roy wrote:
=>>> Internet distribution (the legal kind) is becoming more and more
=>>> viable all the time. It's not there yet, but I'm watching closely (no
=>>> pun intended).
=>>>
=>>
=>> Cou
On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, there are many programs that I enjoy tremendously that
> are quite fun and informative.
Moi aussi. But if I don't find the overall deal worth it, I won't buy it.
If everyone buys a product that doesn't provide the value desi
On 5/22/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Either I'm a really boring person or TV is getting much better.
Or we've seen so many years of "Survivor: Vermont" crap that our
standards have been lowered to the point where even descented
excrement looks good by comparison. ;-)
> I pay
On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Either I'm a really boring person or TV is getting much better.
> Or we've seen so many years of "Survivor: Vermont" crap that our
> standards have been lowered to the point where even desc
On May 22, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>
> Since none of it was offensive (and the rest was uncensored), I can
> only assume
Ayup.
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On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Be aware that, with MythTV, you need a capture device (i.e., tuner
card) per simultaneous recording, and there are limits to how much
stuff you can stuff down a PCI bus. Four simultaneous recordings may
be pushing it on anything but a high-end
On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You where dumb enough to WATCH it? :-) I thought you said
> you vote with your wallet...
I used to be proud to say that I had never seen an episode of
"American Idol" or "Survivor", but Am Idol was on a TV in a bar I was
in once,
On 5/22/07, brk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Since none of it was offensive (and the rest was uncensored), I can
>> only assume
>
> Ayup.
Absolutely. Ass-u-me. But regardless of HBO's rationale, the fact
remains that the entire production was not being delivered. I don't
really care why
On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Personally, there are many programs that I enjoy tremendously that
> > are quite fun and informative.
> Moi aussi. But if I don't find the overall deal worth it, I won't buy it.
The co
On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And, just like the special Olympics, we're still all.. Wait, that
> might offend someone. :-)
It's not the same without the picture, anyway. :)
How about a more EO (equal offense) quote: "Opinions are like
assholes: Everybody has o
On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You where dumb enough to WATCH it? :-) I thought you said
> > you vote with your wallet...
> I used to be proud to say that I had never seen an episode of
> "American Idol" or "S
On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But by me not purchasing DirecTV, I'm ALSO affecting the Discovery
> > Channel. And our explosively minded friends.
> http://shopping.discovery.com/stores/servlet/Jumpzone?di=40588004&ci=
LDR wrote:
> On our way to Redmond.
>
See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/22/1224259 (Microsoft
will not sue over Linux patents)
And I was reading (can't find where at the moment) where some were
advertising "Sue Me, Sue Me" in an attempt to get Microsoft to reveal
the patents bein
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 14:31:20 Tom Buskey wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Be aware that, with MythTV, you need a capture device (i.e., tuner
> > card) per simultaneous recording, and there are limits to how much
> > stuff you can stuff down a PCI bus. Four simultan
On May 20, 2007, at 20:06, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> The only way they
> could make DSL work would be to provision it from a SLC. I am not
> sure
> they are willing to do that. Possibly the gear Verizon has been using
> in SLC's doesn't support DSL.
Quite right - the Verizon guys I've talked to hav
On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is a good point. If it was available on demand, I might consider it.
http://shopping.discovery.com/category-1_VIDEODOWNLOADS.html?jzid=40600404-2-0
As I wrote earlier, this is getting closer. It's not here yet, but closer.
>> The
On 5/22/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quite right - the Verizon guys I've talked to have said, "oh, yeah,
> that would work... but we don't do that."
One thing to be aware of is that when they re-purpose T1 and ISDN
equipment for "DSL" in this way, they are limited in what you
On 5/22/07, Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/22/1224259 (Microsoft
> will not sue over Linux patents)
Hmmm. From the actual article:
"If we wanted to go down that road we could have done that three years
ago," said a Microsoft spokesper
On May 22, 2007, at 12:12, Ben Scott wrote:
> I'm seriously considering dropping my cable TV service and just
> using NetFlix or the Internet for everything. I was checking
> recently, and most of what I watch on TV now is available via NetFlix.
Make sure you check availability, not just a hi
On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/22/1224259 (Microsoft
> > will not sue over Linux patents)
> Hmmm. From the actual article:
> "If we wanted to go down that road we could hav
On 5/22/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 22, 2007, at 12:12, Ben Scott wrote:
> > I'm seriously considering dropping my cable TV service and just
> > using NetFlix or the Internet for everything. I was checking
> > recently, and most of what I watch on TV now is available
On 5/22/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What gets me is, don't they *HAVE* to defend the patents? I know
> that applies to Trademarks, but I would assume that they'd have no leg
> to stand on if they blatently allowed one party to publically be
> violating their patents, and then
Ben Scott wrote:
> Alternative #1:
>
> Stop watching TV. Radical idea, I know, not buying a product you don't
> like. :)
>
It's been well over a decade since I've watched television. Do get a lot
more reading done. Does cut down on "water cooler conversations" though.
Does mean I have t
On 5/22/07, Dan Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course, voting with your wallet, when no one knows, isn't that
> effective.
Hmmm.
/me ponders getting selected for a Nielsen TV survey but never
watching anything...
-- Ben
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On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Dan Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Of course, voting with your wallet, when no one knows, isn't that
> > effective.
> Hmmm.
> /me ponders getting selected for a Nielsen TV survey but never
> watching anything...
Might confu
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Thomas Charron wrote:
> Are you connecting with the HDMI cable? It's annoying, but it will
> only do 1080i UNLESS you use the HDMI.
Yeah, using HDMI. I'm not quite sure why HDMI is an issue? When you have
a 1080p TV there really isn't that much difference between a 1080i
signal and a 1080p sig
Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 5/22/07, Dan Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Of course, voting with your wallet, when no one knows, isn't that
>>> effective.
>>>
>> Hmmm.
>> /me ponders getting selected for a Nielsen TV sur
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