On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Lan Barnes wrote:
My guess is that this system has maybe a 2-yr lifetime before DRM,
HDTV
etc make it obsolete. So it's do it now or not at all.
HDTV, excluding the OTA broadcasts that your satellite/cable provider
is mandated to give you free of charge, is already a non-starter if
you want to record signals on your own terms.
Thankfully my wife is acceptably happy with what she chooses to
record in HD from the broadcast networks (which, admittedly, isn't
much).
The only other real ways to get HD on your screen are to use the HD
boxes from your satellite/cable provider, use a commercial HD DVR
(like the TiVo HD with CableCard, or one of the many Windows Media
Center OEM solutions with CableCard), buy an HD-DVD or BluRay player,
or download HD rips via bittorrent or newsgroups.
FCC is mandating we all move to HD, but it's all ending up as premium
channels. Bastards.
Gregory
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