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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA Reviews:
 ·SONIC.NET
1 edit | Trying to regain the market share ... obviously necessary This is obviously a good idea.
A lot of us don't have TVs anymore, but have lots of computers laying around.
This is perfect for the modern world, and actually about half a decade past its largest initial usefulness, and a decade past when it should have been introduced.
I caught someone say "when [he] buys [his] plasma TV" ... yeah right, well, sure, yeah, for him this is pretty much moot AFTER he buys it. It's as if we have to own a new TV just to watch TV. Some of us had money to invest into the betting game at Wall Street (and bet against liar loans and won big), but a lot of us never had any money in the first place, and are just waiting for housing prices to go down (way, way, superway way way down). DirecTV saw the light, and realized they better jump on board or get steamrolled by us downsizing our expenditures on useless redundant content delivery companies when the Internet is so much more standard and reliable.
Whoever stopped running DirecTV did a great thing by getting out of the way (Robert Mudock?).
I am aware that some people have put in the necessary investments in the latest version of legacy HDTV architecture to keep up to date with the current CableCo/SatelliteCo setup, but I'd say most of us young people haven't. I saw this all first hand at one of my recent jobs.
Lately, my income has become much, much healthier, but I certainly haven't decided to start wasting money on things I already realized I don't need.
We will get a projector when we can afford it, but there's no guarantee we're plugging it into anything but our computer. That's the idea. That's where all the content is for us, anyway. If it's free, we might augment it a smidgen from other sources, but only if the cables don't look ugly.
That might change when we can afford BluRay. That might change everything ... BluRay might be the savior for old fashioned TV. We'll need a competent 1080p set before we bother with a BluRay, though, and the prices on those 1080p sets are still pushing that item down on the budget priority list, even if we consider the best good quality set deals on Amazon.com. (The BluRay player is cheaper than the set, and as far as I'm concerned, they're a matched pair, so get bought at the same time, and returned at the same time if they don't work. I still want them componentized, though, so no BluRay inside my set (ew) (but come to think of it, that might be an ideal way to control quality production (yes, there are things that the player has to do for picture quality)).) | | |
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pandoraPremium
join:2001-06-01
Outland
kudos:1 Reviews:
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 ·Comcast
| This service compliments HD TV. For example, in my living room is a nice 47" HD 1080P LCD TV. Currently it is being used to play an awesome PS3 game. Usually the DVR that is attached to the set would be useless during PS3 game time. Now it can be used to view saved content on any PC in the house.
This allows an unused DVR to be used, it allows a PS3 user to not take away the DVR from video users.
Various DVR's in our home have different types of content depending on who their primary users are. Now any user can watch content from any DVR on our LAN without having to control the set or be physically in the room where the DVR is. If someone is watching another program on the TV via DVR, another can watch a different program via PC on the same DVR.
This update allows greater utilization of our DirecTV DVR's, and makes it easier for users to see what they want, when they want, where they want.
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." | |
| HDCP IS NOT NEEDED FOR NON PPV PLAY BACK OF SHOWS.
But do you need a Service Called CLHNService3 Running with a unknown Manufacturer. | |
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