patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1
1 edit | DRM and Cablecard rental What about DRM that makes the whole system useless? Why should I upgrade to battery killing, RAM wasting, lagging UI Windows 7 and deal with the DRM? And rental /outlet fees for the cablecard that make a cable box have much bang for the buck? | |
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 | | Re: DRM and Cablecard rental said by patcat88:What about DRM that makes the whole system useless? Why should I upgrade to battery killing, RAM wasting, lagging UI Windows 7 and deal with the DRM? And rental /outlet fees for the cablecard that make a cable box have much bang for the buck? I am gathering you havent actually used windows 7 . | |
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 | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: DRM and Cablecard rental »www.vista123.net/content/ed-bott···le-512mb
»www.etiole.com/2009/08/windows-x···etbooks/
Keep drinking the Koolaid, Vista and 7 are just to force you to upgrade and keep Intel's and Samsung's stock price up. 7 is a struggle to get back to XP's performance. And XP is a bloated version of 2000 anyways, but I won't complain on that (XP runs on machines nowadays 8x faster than it was designed for, 2000 was made for a Pentium 1 or Pentium 2 at most, XP was made for sub 1 GHZ P3s). | |
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| | | | Re: DRM and Cablecard rental May I ask you why you linked to a story that disprooves your post? did you even read them before linking them here? | |
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| | | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: DRM and Cablecard rental said by majortom1029:May I ask you why you linked to a story that disprooves your post? did you even read them before linking them here? Win 7 being closer to XP than Vista doesn't make Win 7 better than XP. $4000 of credit card debt is better than $10000 of credit card debt, but its still not zero or in the positive range. | |
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| | | | | | Re: DRM and Cablecard rental Windows 7 is better then xp not the same. you get the same performance of xp while getting a much better and more graphically intensive user interface, a 64bit version that is the same , and other things. So 7 is not the same as xp. | |
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tiyuri
join:2001-06-06
Little Silver, NJ | You are joking right? A Windows based DVR is a night and day improvement over the crappy cable company DVR. Pair it up with a WHS or a NAS box and you have limitless storage for your shows, music, DVDs, etc etc etc. You have access to Hulu, Boxee, Netflix and all of the great content found on the Internets. Plus it is a one time outlay instead of getting hit up every month by the junkie that is your local cable company.
When a cable company box can do half of what of my media center machine can do with as pleasant an interface I may switch. Until then I am happy to ride clear QAM goodness until 2010 when I stick a cable card in it. | |
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 rv65Ban Cat DeclawingPremium
join:2008-08-02
USA!!!!
kudos:1 | Linux will never get cablecard since it won't have DRM support and the bus is wide open. The CC bus would have to be closed off and we'd have to figure out how Broadcom does it. Broadcom chips use Linux and they support Cablecard. If you want a DIY MC machine then you must use Windows. | |
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