dnoyeB
Ferrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI
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Re: Im ready to buy!
If I were TIVO I would certainly allow it to be hacked too. That way you get lots of users who are just getting extra free movies and stuff. But once you feel you got enough of these leeches, you change the protocol or something and hope and prey they sign up ligitimately.
You think they would try that?
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dnoyeB
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JYoung
G L 2814
join:2000-06-13
Sherman Oaks, CA | They are already looking into downloading movies to a Tivo or a Replay like unit via the Internet. As broadband becomes more and more the norm, you will see this happen.
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mrichards8
join:2000-10-17
Littleton, CO
| Basically, the movie industry is scared to death of digital technology. They would rather support technologies like Tivo with a limited storage capacity (and subscription fee) than allow more "open" technologies with removable media like recordable DVD to become available. For the past few years, DirecTV equipment has been available that allowed the recording of satellite programs directly to D-VHS tapes with no loss in quality. Recently, however, DirecTV has stopped production of the D-VHS VCRs, and is instead marketing a Tivo/DirecTV combination receiver. I have read that this change was in large measure due to pressure from the movie industry. |
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