Question for the gamers

theacoustician · May 12, 2005

smileynev said:
Oh my, that looks like too much work...

Actually, the more I hear about Directv dumping their Tivo boxes in favor of their own crap the more I am willing to try and hack it to do fancy stuff.

In about a year you won't have a choice. TiVo doesn't support MPEG4 and that's all DirecTV will be broadcasting.

fly · May 12, 2005

ChikkenNoodul said:
I got mine to work

I also copied an entire word processor from one of those rags into BASIC on the Commodore and that worked too

:thrawn:

Syrup Beaver · May 12, 2005

fly said:
:thrawn:

I copied the code line for line from one of those mags

I also did that with the debug program in DOS, when the old, OLD PC Magazines used to include utilities written in machine code in the mags.

I was hardcore in them days

simple · May 12, 2005

theacoustician said:
In about a year you won't have a choice. TiVo doesn't support MPEG4 and that's all DirecTV will be broadcasting.

yeah I read that awhile ago in a Wired

not that I read Wired ... :shady:

theacoustician · May 12, 2005

elpmis said:
yeah I read that awhile ago in a Wired

not that I read Wired ...

fag

fly · May 12, 2005

elpmis said:
i'm surprised you don't have a tivo, theac

I know I need to get one

I got one from Brighthouse. Good stuff. I dont care enough about the hacking part tho.

fly · May 12, 2005

theacoustician said:
In about a year you won't have a choice. TiVo doesn't support MPEG4 and that's all DirecTV will be broadcasting.

Won't Tivo be irrelevant by then?

smileynev · May 12, 2005

theacoustician said:
169time.com

DirecTV boxes with active and unlocked firewire ports and 232 ports for control. Some people have even figure out control over firewire. You could even use a Mac at that point. Whoa.

fag

Edit : and what good is your "pure digital recording" if you're outputting it via analog video and you can't get said "pure digital recording" off the box to do anything with it?

I can watch it on my tv.

simple · May 12, 2005

theacoustician said:
fag

i make you hot in your pants, don't lie

smileynev · May 12, 2005

fly said:
Won't Tivo be irrelevant by then?

They'll probably release their own shitty Eurotrash boxes.

smileynev · May 12, 2005

http://directv.com/see/landing/dvr_upgrade.html

I got a mailer in the mail yesterday with that info on it. I was all excited, thinking, "Finally, home media option. I love you directv"

Horsefuckers.

theacoustician · May 12, 2005

fly said:
I got one from Brighthouse. Good stuff. I dont care enough about the hacking part tho.

You don't want to hack any rented box from the cable company.

theacoustician · May 12, 2005

smileynev said:
http://directv.com/see/landing/dvr_upgrade.html

I got a mailer in the mail yesterday with that info on it. I was all excited, thinking, "Finally, home media option. I love you directv"

Horsefuckers.

Too bad you're not on Dish

http://www.dishnetwork.com/downloads/pdf/product_brochures/942_Prod_SheetWeb.pdf

Dish's DVR solutions are far superior to Direct's Tivo stuff from my experience

smileynev · May 12, 2005

theacoustician said:
Too bad you're not on Dish

http://www.dishnetwork.com/downloads/pdf/product_brochures/942_Prod_SheetWeb.pdf

Dish's DVR solutions are far superior to Direct's Tivo stuff from my experience

I heard their useability is equivalent to a horse's ass.

theacoustician · May 12, 2005

smileynev said:
I heard their useability is equivalent to a horse's ass.

You heard wrong. Its faster than DirecTivo and less of a pain. I have to use both daily and the only drawback to the Dish boxes we have is they're freaking enormous.

Syrup Beaver · May 12, 2005

theacoustician said:
Too bad you're not on Dish

http://www.dishnetwork.com/downloads/pdf/product_brochures/942_Prod_SheetWeb.pdf

Dish's DVR solutions are far superior to Direct's Tivo stuff from my experience

Too bad one of Dish's satellites is so low to the horizon that if you have any trees within 300 yards you're screwed.

theacoustician · May 12, 2005

ChikkenNoodul said:
Too bad one of Dish's satellites is so low to the horizon that if you have any trees within 300 yards you're screwed.

If you didn't live in Canada, its not a problem.

Dish, until they picked up VOOM's exclusive channels, was always kinda the red-headed step child in my eyes. Now, they've got better boxes and more HD. Very impressive. I look forward to seeing Direct's response.

smileynev · May 12, 2005

theacoustician said:
If you didn't live in Canada, its not a problem.

Dish, until they picked up VOOM's exclusive channels, was always kinda the red-headed step child in my eyes. Now, they've got better boxes and more HD. Very impressive. I look forward to seeing Direct's response.

Dish scares me. I'll stick with the big guys.

theacoustician · May 12, 2005

smileynev said:
Dish scares me. I'll stick with the big guys.

WTF are you talking about. Dish is hardly small. I didn't think of them as first in the industry till recently, but I never thought they were mom and pop.

Syrup Beaver · May 12, 2005

theacoustician said:
WTF are you talking about. Dish is hardly small. I didn't think of them as first in the industry till recently, but I never thought they were mom and pop.

They are up north.

I see maybe 1 Dish dish for every 200 DirecTV dishes

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