The TV tuner cards are handy sometimes, especially during boring days at the office.
As for TiVo, you're correct, it's not going out of business, but it's being changed drastically in the next few months. Networks are bitching (what a surprise!) about the ability to time-shift and skip through commercials so the software will be flashed to compromise. IIRC, in the future, while you're fast-forwarding through the commercials, you'll get a banner ad for something or another. I heard the story on NPR Friday, but I can't track it down now. I'll keep searching. rob Robert M. Klein wrote: >I cannot imagine why anyone would want to watch TV through their computers, >but I can tell you that TiVo is the greatest invention since color >television. Watch what you want, when you want, skip the commercials and >the stuff you don't like, subscribe to your favorite shows and forget about >programming them in each week, etc. Watching in real time? Answer the >phone and not miss anything. > >No, TiVo is not going under. > >>From what I have seen, the TiVo software is the most seamless and easiest to >use. That's really what you're paying for, the software and the >subscription service. Otherwise, it's just a hard drive. > >Robert > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >| List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
