If they don't show one at MWNY then they lose my money

the frogbeater · May 25, 2002 1:24PM

I have set aside $1200 for a Sony desktop:

<a href="http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/digitalstudio/gigapocket.shtml"; target="_blank">http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/digitalstudio/gigapocket.shtml</a>;

I'm waiting for MWNY and if there isn't a device with the specs that MOSR discussed then Sony gets the cash.

I own no PCs (and 6 macs), but if Apple can't integrate this sort of technology into its machines then they don't deserve the business.

I'll still be using my macs for everything EXCEPT the DVR. I can't turn any of my macs into DVRs, that's just lame.

[ 05-25-2002: Message edited by: the frogbeater ]

cobra · May 25, 2002 1:26PM

Go play with your little Windows machine.

bigc · May 25, 2002 1:50PM

[quote]Originally posted by the frogbeater:

I have set aside $1200 for a Sony desktop:

<a href="http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/digitalstudio/gigapocket.shtml"; target="_blank">http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/digitalstudio/gigapocket.shtml</a>;

I'm waiting for MWNY and if there isn't a device with the specs that MOSR discussed then Sony gets the cash.

I own no PCs (and 6 macs), but if Apple can't integrate this sort of technology into its machines then they don't deserve the business.

I'll still be using my macs for everything EXCEPT the DVR. I can't turn any of my macs into DVRs, that's just lame.

[ 05-25-2002: Message edited by: the frogbeater ]<hr></blockquote>

Would be nice if Apple had something similar.

keyboardf12 · May 25, 2002 2:13PM

or you could just buy a tivo.

bryan fury · May 25, 2002 2:13PM

yeah SOUNDS great .. but in practice..?

tom mornini · May 25, 2002 2:31PM

[quote]Originally posted by keyboardf12:

or you could just buy a tivo.<hr></blockquote>

Agreed!

In fact, buy new Satellite service and get a Tivo FREE! :-)

I guarantee you a Tivo is about 10 times as functional as the Sony machine. :-)

keilwerthreborn · May 25, 2002 3:11PM

Seriously. GigaPocket isn't as great as they make it out to be. Tivo really is alot better and cheaper.

junkyard dawg · May 25, 2002 3:36PM

Like Jobs says, you turn off your brain to watch TV, but you turn on your brain to use a computer. If you want to mix your computer with TV, then maybe you SHOULD buy a Wintel. Macs are too good for the idiot tube....and yes I'm happy to say that I don't have cable, my TV is exclusively used for two things: DVDs, and Bill Mahr.

jeromba · May 25, 2002 3:45PM

[quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg:

 my TV is exclusively used for two things: DVDs, and Bill Mahr.<hr></blockquote>

Me too... just for DVD... but who's Bill???

paul · May 25, 2002 3:48PM

Bill mahr is the host of politically incorrect... its a show here in the states on ABC.... its a comedy show that is on late at night... i dont watch that much tho... i fact it is entierly possible that I am wrong... I'm just going on a hunch

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macsrgood4u · May 25, 2002 3:54PM

Is this a threat? We are all devastated that you're leaving the fold. <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" /> <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

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keyboardf12 · May 25, 2002 3:58PM

JYD, I was going to post that steve quote but changed my mind. scary. Bill Mahr is great. I think he only has a couple of months left though? I bet he will move to comedy central. It would be great for him to have a show there so he has a lessend chance of being censored.

detah · May 25, 2002 4:00PM

bill mahr? haha, you just squandered all your credibility.

jimmac · May 25, 2002 4:07PM

I'm always amazed that you hear this before a MW. " I'm going to do it if they don't do what I want! Here I go! I'm going to do it now ! "

airsluf · May 25, 2002 4:12PM

steve666 · May 25, 2002 4:13PM

Its Bill Maher. And i doubt he's going to go back to comedy central, but you never know. The show was much better on cable...............................

anders · May 25, 2002 4:19PM

frogbeater: This reminds me of when I worked at the customer service of our largest mobile telephone company here in Denmark. One day I got a call from a farmer and he complained that he didn´t have complete coverage on all his property. We claimed having 99% coverage of all of Denmark so it was very unlikely and I controlled everything.

During our conversation I found out that his property had the size of almost exactly the area one of our base stations covers, meaning catering for his needs we needed one station just for him. I guarateed him that we would never be able to do that and I am afraid you are in the exact same position as him...

Besides that Jobs hates TV and animal cruelty.

[ 05-25-2002: Message edited by: Anders ]

eugene · May 25, 2002 4:29PM

Separate devices that communicate with each other, not lumped together technologies in one clumsy Swiss Army knife.

If Apple ever introduced a PVR feature, it would be its own digital device and not part of the computer itself.

Computers crash...especially ones that aren't sitting idle. If you have a PVR as part of your PC, what's going to happen the next time your crash? And what kind of hit are you going to experience with the PVR constantly writing to disk?

Don't demand a dumb technology from Apple and threaten to leave.

the frogbeater · May 25, 2002 4:56PM

Interesting conversation.

It's not a threat, it's a reality.

I'm not telling apple what to do, I'm buying a system to record shows to MPEG2 and burn them on dvd without copyportection or any of the other spyware that tivo brings to the game.

It will be a seperate device (away from my macs.)

Apple has the DVD burners, has the MPEG2 capacity and only lacks minor connections between the technologies.

Whaaaa, I want a tuner/MPEG2 encoder/DVD burner!

And I'm gonna buy one.

That's all.

jll · May 25, 2002 5:11PM

[quote]Originally posted by the frogbeater:

I'm not telling apple what to do, I'm buying a system to record shows to MPEG2 and burn them on dvd without copyportection or any of the other spyware that tivo brings to the game.<hr></blockquote>

And you're sure that Sony will let you do that?

Who's copyprotecting CDs?

bunge · May 25, 2002 5:20PM

<a href="http://www.formac.com"; target="_blank">www.formac.com</a>

Go buy their digital recorder. It's a nifty looking device that should be able to do what you want to do.

If they don't show one at MWNY then they lose my money

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