more on TiVo to Bring TV to iPod and PSP

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Adam Thornton <adam () io com>
Date: November 30, 2005 3:28:57 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on TiVo to Bring TV to iPod and PSP

For IP, if you want, in reply to Ted Nelson:

On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Ted Nelson wrote:
> Wait a minute, you can buy prebuilt
>  ham radios, but not MythTVs.  How come?
>
> There is an incomprehensible MythTV "store" at mythic.tv,
>  but the only prebuilt it offers is a $1600 model for HDTV.
>
> Why don't people get it???  There's a MARKET out there, guys!

Perhaps people "don't get it" because selling such a thing is very  
likely to be prosecutable under the DMCA.  An open-source Tivo-alike  
would almost certainly not kneecap the user's ability to record what  
he or she wanted, keep it around indefinitely, and remix it.  As such  
it will be unacceptable to the copyright holders.  Free software is  
much harder to successfully prosecute than a company selling actual  
hardware from an actual physical location.  Any company that started  
making these things cheap and selling lots of them would, I suspect,  
attract a great deal of unwanted attention.

There are, of course, alternatives to MythTV that require a good deal  
less undocumented and esoteric knowledge: I myself use a Mac Mini and  
EyeHome/EyeTV, VLC, iTunes, and a few other bits and pieces.  None of  
it was particularly difficult to set up.

Adam



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