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boykster:

--- Quote from: MustardTent on May 29, 2007, 01:47:37 pm ---How well do third-party DVR's integrate into digital setups?  Like the Sony mentioned above -- If you have digital cable, the provider has control over who gets to connect to their system -- do you get the provider to allow the Sony/Tivo, or do you tune via the cable box and only record on the Sony (or Tivo)?

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I can't speak to the "how well" do they work, but the newer ones integrate with cable systems using a cablecard....

shorthair:

--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on May 29, 2007, 11:56:57 am ---Seeing hi-def, especially 1080p, content (both movies and games) on the set always manages to wow me, even after all this time.

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By games do you mean Mame? If so, any pictures?

Something I've had in mind for many years, and something I bet no one here has realised: there's an issue with holographic display. Not the technology, which actually I'm sure is possible even now, but with POV. How do you set things in a real 3D environment with respect to the viewer? (Note: in books, this is easy.)

And on Tivo, etc. : a dude in the computer section a my local Best Buy said he had at least a terabyte of storage at home; I had the impression that was tentative on getting more. We're already starting to see this - and the whole mainframe concept of the 40s and 50s was grounded in this and seems to be returning, as well as the concept being predicted and displayed in David Brin's EARTH - where we'll simply have access devices (be they terminals or internal), perhaps with some storage, and be able to call up any data at any moment.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: shorthair on May 29, 2007, 06:32:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on May 29, 2007, 11:56:57 am ---Seeing hi-def, especially 1080p, content (both movies and games) on the set always manages to wow me, even after all this time.

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By games do you mean Mame? If so, any pictures?

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For someone who is always quoting somebody else's predictions about the future, you really don't know that much about the stuff you talk about, do you ?

 :dunno

jbox:

--- Quote from: shorthair on May 29, 2007, 06:32:29 pm ---And on Tivo, etc. : a dude in the computer section a my local Best Buy said he had at least a terabyte of storage at home; I had the impression that was tentative on getting more. We're already starting to see this - and the whole mainframe concept of the 40s and 50s was grounded in this and seems to be returning, as well as the concept being predicted and displayed in David Brin's EARTH - where we'll simply have access devices (be they terminals or internal), perhaps with some storage, and be able to call up any data at any moment.

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Sun tried this and it failed - because CPU's just got faster so much quicker than networking did. Dumb terminals are dead, and will stay dead unless someone manages to discover a zuper-duper wireless system for 100 TB/s networking. Network storage on the other hand is getting better and better. The uni here now has a bunch of OSX Macs that can be auto-magically re-installed, rebooted and ready to go any night they decide just by dropping a new image on the control server (eg. whenever new apps or patches need to be installed). From a design point of view user mobility is maximised when the PC HDD works the same your RAM does as a high-speed storage cache between your CPU and the file server, but there are still waaayyyyy too many applications taking stupid shortcuts and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- for that system to be fully automagic for anything other than highly homogeneous environments like school computer labs.  :banghead:

ChadTower:

That's actually VERY easy to do if you can predict the exact hardware and drivers in every situation.  For an appliance like a Tivo, where the company knows exactly what is in every box, you could easily bounce down a new app or whole drive image whenver you wanted to, if you had good enough access to every box.

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