Posted by JEDIDIAH on 06/21/06 18:47

On 2006-06-21, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>>>>> Show me an alternative for recording, say, 8 hours of video, that
>>>>> costs anywhere near the $100 of a SVHS machine.
>>>>
>>>> Tivos are that cheap now.
>>>
>>> Plus a monthly service fee, of course.
>>
>> ...not for the same level of functionality as an SVHS deck.
>>
>> The monthly service fee supports features the VCR doesn't have.
>
> You don't get that $100 price unless you commit to the service for
> some period of time, guy.

Actually, you can get that price in a number of ways that
imply a contractual commitment. It could just be for the underlying
cable service and you might not even pay anything for the Tivo (or
other non-tivo pvr).

This argument worked much better when everyone and their
brother's cat didn't have a PVR solution of some sort and when
the naked hardware cost $500.

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