[IP] more on TiVo to Bring TV to iPod and PSP
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From: Adam Thornton <adam@xxxxxx>
Date: November 30, 2005 3:28:57 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
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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