Without ads or fees and needing to remember to record anything, those with TiVo's reportedly run into 2 issues, there are more things on at the same time than they can record or the stations go over time and the TiVo cuts off the end of the show.
actually, stations specifically changed up times to screw with dvrs, because, you knowskipping commercials bad On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:31 PM, John Berry<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We are going to find many people watching what they want, for free, in >> very low definition, over the internet. > > > That tells me you know nothing about watching TV online. > The HDTV 350MB (per 42 mins=1H minus ads) xvid avi's are of a generally > decent quality mostly better than standard definition TV and can look quite > Ok on a 60" HDTV. > > The 720P x264 mkv's are generally close to the original HDTV transmission > (depending on what has to be compressed), these run at 1.1GB (for each 42 > mins). > These sizes are such that by downloading from usenet you can start > downloading and watch right away, it will download faster than you can watch > even on a 5MBit/s connection. > > Without ads or fees and needing to remember to record anything, those with > TiVo's reportedly run into 2 issues, there are more things on at the same > time than they can record or the stations go over time and the TiVo cuts off > the end of the show. > > All up the stations need to smarten up their act IMO. > >
