Tivo 2 Features On the Horizon

Lemuel writes "Tivo has finally pre-announced its music and photo pictures for the Tivo 2. Users will be able to play MP3s and view photos that come from their computer. It will also be possible to program the Tivo via a web site. An official announcement is due in January. There will be revenue associated with these items. Only the remote programming sounds interesting to me, but I'm glad for anything that would keep Tivo afloat."

Unfortunately

[Anonymous Coward]

Due to pressure from the MPAA, they're dropping the program recording capability.

Revenue?

[jesser]

There will be revenue associated with these items.

You mean fees?

programming the tivo

[painehope]

int sexualStatus ( char *sexuality ) {
if ( (strcmp(sexuality,"I'm not gay goddamnit")) == 0 ) {
recommendGayPorn();
fputs("Sorry, Dave, we think you're gay", stdout);
} else {
recommendGayPorn();
return 1;
}

Don't buy this

[bastardman]

Tivo is evil. It allows me to record programs on tv while I'm away from home. It controls my life when I am at home. I swear to God the thing watchs me sleep at night as well... probably records it too. Who's been watching those videos? Because it isn't me...

Back to wearing my tin foil jump suit

what's a pre-announcement?

[rhodesbe]

We wanted to announce that we are gonna say this at a later date. Oh wait! Crap!

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Now, when they say website...

[xchino]

By it being programmed through a website, do they mean a web interface, or an actual internet web site? If it's through a web site, I think I'd be wary of them tracking my viewing habis.. more so than they do already..

Innovative

[bahwi]

But it's not innovative until it's Code Red and Nimda compatible!

Re:Meanwhile

[Anonymous Coward]

Saying "my computer with a video capture card does the same thing" is like saying that "my ford escort is just as good for a 2000 mile treck across the country as luxury sedan". They both get the job done. One is just a hell of a lot nicer than the other.

Welcome to Slashdot. We use linux here. Nobody cares about "niceness", or "ease-of-use", or "simplicity", or any of that shit here. In fact, we hate it. Well, except for those Mac loonies over in apple.slashdot.org, but they use Macs, so their opinion doesn't count anyways.

</sarcasm>

Re:Unfortunately

[boopus]

You know, as much as you didn't mean to, you bring up a good point. A series 2 tivo has USB network support, so for the price of an extra usb nic, it could easily double as a home router. Now that's what I'd call feature creep.

Re:Pre-announcing the pre-boarding

[alias]

I believe you were attempting George Carlin's joke, but you're missing that well articulated, and enlightening comment, such as "pre-suck my genital situation!" that Carlin brings to any discussion:

"Anyway, it's part of this boarding process, they say, "We would like to pre-board." Well, what exactly is that anyway? What does it mean to pre-board? To get on before you get on?

That's another complaint of mine. Too much use of this prefix "pre". It's all over the language now. Pre-this, pre-that. "Place the turkey in a pre-heated oven." It's ridiculous. There are only two states an oven can possibly exist in: heated or unheated. Pre-heated is a meaningless, fucking term.

It's like pre-recorded. "This program was pre-recorded." Well, of course it was pre-recorded. When else are you gonna record it, afterwards? That's the whole purpose of recording, to do it beforehand. Otherwise it doesn't really work, does it!

Pre-existing, pre-planning, pre-screening. You know what I tell these people? Pre-suck my genital situation! And they seem to understand what I'm talking about. "



-Alias

Re:Tracking viewing habits

[fenix down]

...the support person can see what channel your cable box is tuned to, and can even change the channel. ...

What cable company might that be? I have visions of an extremely short-term, but intensely fun-filled tech-support job.

"Who Wants to Be a Millionare? Oh, no you don't Mrs. McDonald, the Flyers are playing!"

"Young and the Restless? Looks like somebody's about to say something shocking... oops, finger slipped."

"Oooh. You sure switched from that porn to the Home and Garden Channel pretty fast. Maybe we oughta just switch that back..."

Wonder how long it'll take before they decide I'm a terrorist...