Posted by Phat Bytestard on 07/31/06 06:39

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:20:02 GMT, Jim <james@the-computer-shop.co.uk>
Gave us:

>JEDIDIAH wrote:
>> On 2006-06-20, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>Black Locust wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>VHS took
>>>>much longer to kill off then it really should have.
>>>
>>>Oh? 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.
>>
>
>but can you play Doom on a TiVo?
>
>I'm an ubergeek. I like my expensive kit. Which is why I built my own
>DVR over three years ago, using an AMD Athlon XP2400+, a Gig of RAM and
>an 80GB HDD. Throw in a WinTV PCI card, and it's ready to rip. Nice case
>on it, DVD burner, and I got me a ?500 (then cost) DVR that I could do
>everything else on as well. These days, video
>capture/editing/transcoding is all that box does. I got bigger, better
>and faster boxen to do my other stuff on. So many boxen now, in fact,
>that I've got a storage /cluster/ (four machines), two workstations I
>use myself, the kids have a laptop each, the wife has her Mac laptop,
>and I got on top of all that, my plethora of portable gadgetry, among
>which half a dozen laptops and subnotes, two iPaq PDAs (one of which has
>GPS) (which I'm looking into installing Linux on), and two or three
>tablet PCs.


Which begs the question of "If you have all that fucking CRAP in your
house, why would you piss and moan about buying an HDTV display, or
buying one of the available HD optical formats?"

Oh.. that's right... you are a pirate fuck, rip off retard.

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