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TiVo Gets Huge Horsepower Boost
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:06:41 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu X-Sender: (Unverified) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:23:06 -0500 To: undisclosed-recipient:; From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Subject: TiVo Gets Huge Horsepower Boost TiVo Gets Huge Horsepower Boost By Katie Dean 02:00 AM Feb. 17, 2004 PT TiVo and other digital video recorders will get a serious boost in horsepower later this year as manufacturers start selling DVRs that can record high-definition television programming. Several of the new, more robust high-definition DVRs will sport 250-GB hard drives -- enough room to store 30 hours of high-definition programming or about 200 hours of standard broadcast. The beefier hard drives are necessary because signals for high-definition TV, or HDTV, carry far more information per frame than standard TV. For example, one HDTV standard in the United States (1080i) calls for images that are 1,920 pixels by 1,080 pixels, refreshed 60 times a second. By comparison, standard analog TV in the United States is 500 dots by 525 dots. But while the huge storage will please consumers, another "feature" of the new generation of machines may not: Under pressure from Hollywood, the manufacturers will include copy-protection schemes that will prevent users from sharing recorded programs or playing them on other devices, like a PC. The content will be protected by two mechanisms. The first is Digital Visual Interface (or DVI), which shuttles digital signals from the DVR to the display. DVI works with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (or HDCP), which encrypts that signal and ensures that only an authorized device can display the content. ... http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,61988,00.html ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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