Pioneer To Release TiVo/DVD Burner Combo

TK-421 writes "According to an official Pioneer press release, 'Pioneer is revolutionizing home video recording with the introduction of the world's first DVD recorders featuring the TiVo service. These new recorders offer consumers the control provided by the easy-to-use TiVo service integrated with advanced DVD recording for the option of short-term storage on a hard drive or long-term archival of broadcast programming on DVD-R/RW discs.'" The options include both 80 and 120GB models, starting at a not-inexpensive $1199, and there's more information via a CNET News article.

hm

[Frac]

The options include both 80 and 120GB models, starting at a not-inexpensive $1199, and there's more information via a CNET News article.

not-inexpensive? I know slashdot editors aim for obscurity, but what's wrong with "expensive"?

Re:How long till...

[pe1rxq]

I hereby announce that there will be litigation... ....Voting boot closed!!!!

Jeroen

Re:hm

[tankdilla]

not-inexpensive = not-in-unaffordable, and for now not-unimpractical to even consider using just to record TV shows.

Re:hm

[Akai]

expensive is a term no longer allowed to describe home electronics.

It is the Ministry of Advertising's feeling that all products should be described in various degress of inexpensive for their price range:
inexpensive
almost inexpensive
barely inexpensive
not inexpensive
nowhere near inexpensive

Everyone has me to thank for this....

[jaylen]

... since if I had not just bought a Tivo last week, and a DVD recorder the month before, this would never have happened.

*sobs*

_____
Jaylen

Re:And, before the "I can make a tivo" people post

[evilviper]

That's just not true... Tivo is practically just regular PC hardware.

All that is needed is much better _software_, and we should all know that can be done.

SCO?

[GreatDrok]

I don't see what this has to do with SCO. I read scodot.org for all the SCO news, not for some unrelated tosh about a piece of kit which is guaranteed to have the MPAA kicking your door down!

Re:hm

[more fool you]

you should be modded not-uninsightful

Re:Macrovision?

[Surak]

Are there any good long-term storage solutions? I'm talking on the order of decades, not years. Paper's done a pretty good job so far, but even that degrades, and it's a little hard to store digital information in an easily retrievable format on paper.

You young whippersnappers! Obviously, you're not old enough to remember punched cards and paper tape! Stores for decades, easily retrievable!

Hummmm

[Delifisek]

If you are Big company you may create a DVD-BURNER. But if you just Linux Hacker, may sued by one of the these companies because of the writing DVD Decoding program...

Ummm... Capitalists.....

So, these kind of devices destroyes TV AD's revenue too, Perhaps Carl Marx right, those capitalists may kill each other...

Re:hm

[hplasm]

The rules they taught you in 7th grade english are breakable, sometimes to great effect.

Should that not read: "The rules they taught you in 7th grade english are not unbreakable, sometimes to great effect." ?

Re:SCO?

[WIAKywbfatw]

I don't see what this has to do with SCO. I read scodot.org for all the SCO news, not for some unrelated tosh about a piece of kit which is guaranteed to have the MPAA kicking your door down!

Tivo runs on Linux (get your Tivo code here [tivo.com]), so this is a SCO story after all.

Some people thought you were kidding but you know and I know that you were being deadly serious, right buddy?

Re:Everyone has me to thank for this....

[cyroth]

Damn that Murphy

Re:hm

[Thing 1]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Re:And, before the "I can make a tivo" people post

[Botchka]

I surrender....

Re:hm

[TeknoHog]

double-plus-uninexpensive!

In related news

[stinky wizzleteats]

The heads of the MPAA executives exploded simultaneously today, for reasons unknown as of the time of this writing. Witnesses say they made a gurgling noise shortly before the intracranial blasts, just after being handed their daily printed media summary which included a digest of that day's Slashdot articles. Investigation continuing...

Re:hm

[wavedeform]

Ahh.. the white mans ebonics.

You mean Ivyoronics?

And somewhere, a pin is placed upon a map

[Sloppy]

And yes, I know what's involved in a Mythtv box - for a dual tuner model, right now, it takes at least a 2000+ processor.

The above words were uttered, and everyone so implicitly understood the words, without qualifying remarks or context clarification, that the event went unnoticed. It was so normal, so mundane. Who would look at it and think twice? Why would they?

Deep at AMD headquarters, the intelligence report arrived.

"Here's the latest batch, sir."

"Hmm.. I see.. Hmm.. Oh! What's this?"

"It was a comment on Slashdot, sir. Someone used our notation for referring to the approximate speed of a microprocessor. But they didn't actually mention our name or the product's name. No unit of measurement or anything. Just a number with a postfix plus sign. And everyone knew what it meant. It was completely implicit."

The strategist smiled and pulled an Intel pin off a map, replacing it with the AMD pin. He leaned back in his chair and squinted at the map, nodding with satisfaction.