Death of video recorder in sight
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The death of the video recorder comes a step closer as electrical chain Dixons says it will stop selling them.
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I'm sorry to see that my blog entry on recent controversies over freedom turned into a thread about TiVo. But since TiVo seems to be such a hot button, I would like to address that issue directly. I made the point in the discussion that TiVo did not license its hardware under the GPL (duh, GPL is a software license, after all), or even a GPL-like license.  So all the fuss about what rights you have with respect to TiVo hardware is nonsense.  Sure, you have the right to modify the hardware because you bought it.  But you will void your warranty, and TiVo is under no obligation to provide you with the schematic, BIOS, or anything else to make it easy to modify the hardware.  Having said that, let's cut through all the posturing about what rights we have, and get to the real issue here, which is what motivated TiVo to use a digital signature, and what would motivate people to modify the TiVo software and run the modified version on a TiVo box.
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Don't get too attached to your widescreen TV -- it'll soon be obsolete.
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Blog: Leaked images and specs seem to indicate a stripped down version of TiVo's Series 3 DVR is on its way.
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On Christmas day, after the potlatch subsided, I headed out for a run. When I flicked on my MP3 player, however, I heard ... nothing. Glancing down at the display of my Creative Nomad MuVo TX I saw an unwelcome message: "File system error." Grrr.
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I'm trying to discover why three out of three of my selected hard-disk recorders refuse to work on my Debian Etch (Demudi) system. Once again I ask myself the relevant questions: Is it me ? Is my computer trying to tell me something ? Is it something I said ? Whatever the reason(s), my reviews of those three programs must remain in limbo until I figure out what's wrong. The applications are all known to run perfectly well on other machines, so I'm sure there's an external problem. When testing new applications one must be prepared with the newest dependencies. CVS sources are often required. Sometimes one must mutter obscure invocations. Alas, I was not sufficiently prepared. Time for a radical shift.
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Though technophiles are the one who usually like to brag about their electronic toys, recently, even tech novices have started crowing about their digital video recorders.
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The video is dead. Itâs official, although I imagine the mourning period will go on for several years yet. Dixons, the big UK electrical goods chain, has announced it will sell its existing stock of VCRs and then call it a day.
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Tapeless camcorders have arrived, but be aware of price, capacity and picture quality.
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Toshiba has abandoned the HD DVD high-definition video disc format, it announced Tuesday. (More to fol...
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Also: When iPods die. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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The little secret of digital video recorders is that while they allow you to amass a large collection of movies and TV shows quickly, you still have to find time to watch the material you recorded so effortlessly. For all their merits, these things can't add an extra two hours to each day to help you catch up on this backlog of video.
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High Street electrical retailer Dixons is ditching the VCR because of falling sales and the increased popularity of newer technology.
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What&#39;s the best way to record your holiday memories? Most people would instantly think of the digital camera: eminently portable and fantastically convenient, the only drawback is what to do when you run out of space on your memory cards.
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Floppy disks, one of the most popular forms of storage for many years, will no longer be sold in PC World shops.
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JVC is introducing two camcorders that abandon tape and discs altogether, recording onto removable hard drives.
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Electronic storage will kill high-definition discs, says hard drive king's Bill Watkins. He's got other opinions, too.