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more on TiVo to Bring TV to iPod and PSP
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:22:47 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Ted Nelson <ted () xanadu net> Date: November 29, 2005 7:38:13 PM EST To: dave () farber netCc: tandm () xanadu net, Arthur Bullard <arthur.bullard () oii ox ac uk>, xanni () xanadu net
Subject: [IP] more on TiVo to Bring TV to iPod and PSP Dave, Brad makes MythTV sound wonderful, and perhaps it is. I understand Tivo has been discontinued in the UK. My particular need is to digitize hundreds of videos to MP4 (now that Ipod and PSP make that the low-fi compression of choice). However, I've just done some searching, and MythTV appears to conform to the widely-held but never-stated "If you don't know Linux you ain't worth shit" philosophy. MythTV is effectively unavailable to non-Linux outsiders. You have to buy the parts, install it and configure it yourself. Shades of ham radio. Wait a minute, you can buy prebuilt ham radios, but not MythTVs. How come? There is an incomprehensible MythTV "store" at mythic.tv, but the only prebuilt it offers is a $1600 model for HDTV. Why don't people get it??? There's a MARKET out there, guys! Ted Brad Templeton wrote===Subject: [IP] more on TiVo to Bring TV to iPod and PSP Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:00:47 -0500 From: David Farber <dave () farber net> To: ip () v2 listbox com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [IP] TiVo to Bring TV to iPod and PSP Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:14:53 -0800 From: Brad Templeton <btm () templetons com> Organization: http://www.templetons.com/brad To: David Farber <dave () farber net> CC: mony () roscom com References: <4382DBE4.4060708 () farber net> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:50:44AM -0500, David Farber wrote:
ALVISO, Calif., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo Inc.(Nasdaq: TIVO), creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders, today announced an enhancement to its current TiVoToGofeature that will allow TiVo subscribers to easily transfer recorded television programming to their Apple iPod or PSP devices.
There is something worth noting about annoucements of such "features" as this. While it's nice to put a better UI on it, this is not so much a feature as a removal of a restriction. With open tools, such as my MythTV box, people would laugh at the idea of announcing I can now move the video files to other players (such as my laptop for viewing on the plane) or any other open videoplayer. The "feature" is called file copy. And there are already lots
of tools out there to do the other features they name, like automatic syncing. People don't realize, in the debate over DRM tools, just how much they are missing. Perhaps the fact that the above was "news" repeated boldly in the daily newspapers and on web sites should bring this home. A year ago, I got an email saying an interview with my late father would be rerun on a TV station in Toronto. I connected to the mythtv tv recorder box at my brother's house in Toronto and told it to record the show. Later, I compressed it down to a smaller size and transferred it to my own machine for watching. This didn't require any special features (other than the web browser interface that mythtv has had for a long time). This is just what open computers do. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as ted () xanadu net To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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