http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/forum/commenting en-US Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:57:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha q http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/search.php http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/the-ipad-killer-app#post-2260 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:29:17 +0000 onefabknitter 2260@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">onefabknitter</span></div><p>like the iphone, you probably turn the ipad and the scientific calculator activates:P cant wait!</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/review-blackbox-c18-noice-cancellation-earphones#post-2241 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:18:19 +0000 AJ 2241@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">AJ</span></div><p>Ben,</p> <p>can you please comment on the relative cancellation of noise from the M14 and C18? It looks like the M14&#8217;s have more active canceling but the C18&#8217;s have more passive and therefore a higher total cancellation in terms of dB&#8217;s.</p> <p>I am less worried about the purity of the sound as I am with removing as much background noise as possible!</p> <p>Cheers</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1893 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:21:49 +0000 Stu 1893@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">Stu</span></div><p>Seems Tivo just posted a big loss too.</p> <p>For the quarter ended Jan. 31, TiVo posted a loss of $10.2 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $3.6 million, or 4 cents a share.</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/learning-from-the-vodafone-htc-magic-debacle#post-1878 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:08:22 +0000 mihaela 1878@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">mihaela</span></div><p>jocul asta este cel mai tare joc <img src='http://www.ben.geek.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':grin:' class='wp-smiley' /> <img src='http://www.ben.geek.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':smile:' class='wp-smiley' /> <img src='http://www.ben.geek.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> <img src='http://www.ben.geek.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> <img src='http://www.ben.geek.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt=':cool:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/learning-from-the-vodafone-htc-magic-debacle#post-1877 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:08:20 +0000 Ben 1877@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <blockquote><p>Today, for reasons yet unknown, Vodafone NZ has completely removed the HTC Magic from sale in New Zealand. They&#8217;ve removed all mention of it from their website, and removed existing stock from store shelves.</p></blockquote> <p><br/><a href="http://www.ben.geek.nz/2009/07/learning-from-the-vodafone-htc-magic-debacle/">Learning from the Vodafone HTC Magic Debacle</a></p> <script type="text/javascript">AKPC_IDS += ",";</script><p class="akpc_pop">Popularity: unranked <span class="akpc_help">[<a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/popularity-contest" title="What does this mean?">?</a>]</span></p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1838 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:07:25 +0000 James Robertson 1838@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">James Robertson</span></div><p>beyond the already mentioned restrictions, the distribution channel and channel partner was wrong from the outset. Who trusts Telecom? even prior to the X failure, it took over two weeks of serious contemplation prior to moving to telecom. Notice the box box retailers are selling an alternative called Magicbox or magicstar or something like that&#8230; This is where Tivo should have gone. to the retailers selling the TVs. I have Tivo, but do not use the CASPA service, to cumbersome, slow, plus costly. I had sky, but chose to give it up for Tivo, as in the end I simply wanted freeview with recording capabilities. Ok it cost a lot, but no ingoing subscription fees to contend with.</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1834 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:38:00 +0000 Russell Brown 1834@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">Russell Brown</span></div><p>As well as the unhelpful retail setting, I wonder if the word of mouth has been a problem. TiVo does things most of the other devices in the market don&#8217;t &#8212; streaming to other devices, for example &#8212; but they&#8217;re not the things consumers most want. MySky&#8217;s functionality is tightly circumscribed, but it&#8217;s also very simple. I gather I&#8217;m not the only one to have found TiVo&#8217;s &#8220;award-winning&#8221; UI irritating in comparison.</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1833 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:27:14 +0000 Richard 1833@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">Richard</span></div><blockquote cite="#commentbody-24947"><p> <strong><a href="http://www.ben.geek.nz/#comment-24947" rel="nofollow">Ben</a> :</strong><br /> Yeah goddamn lazy pirates. I always laugh when I find myself berating the quality of … er… someones shared home movies … when I’m watching them. </p></blockquote> <p>Oh, I get the HD ones for shows that are worth it. I guess the restof the world doesnt have the problems we have with traffic counting to a artificial limit so choose the old codec for compatibility. 180-200 of h.264 seems better, but is rare and is often transcodes for &#8220;ipod&#8221; etc so look worse than the 350 meg one.</p> <p>Still no excuse for the poor quality of stuff from caspa on the tivo.</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1832 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:59:16 +0000 Ben 1832@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <blockquote cite="#commentbody-24946"><p> <strong><a href="http://www.ben.geek.nz/#comment-24946" rel="nofollow">Richard</a> :</strong></p> <p>Worse than a lousy 350 meg sub SD divx which is the format of shows I normally get since the scene is stuck in retro-codec land for non HD stuff.</p> </blockquote> <p>Yeah goddamn lazy pirates. I always laugh when I find myself berating the quality of &#8230; er&#8230; someones shared home movies &#8230; when I&#8217;m watching them.</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1831 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:55:08 +0000 Richard 1831@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">Richard</span></div><p>Seems stupid they choose to restrict by ISP to get the content. Guess its all that regional crap that broadcasters do so that people are driven to piracy as the working alternative happening.</p> <p>Also I have seen the quality of the streaming stuff. Real bad. Worse than a lousy 350 meg sub SD divx which is the format of shows I normally get since the scene is stuck in retro-codec land for non HD stuff.</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1830 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:54:00 +0000 Tim 1830@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">Tim</span></div><p>I did the calculations and they were crap.</p> <p>Went with a MySky package instead and its honestly been one of the best things I&#8217;ve ever brought</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1829 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:53:56 +0000 Ben 1829@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.ben.geek.nz/#comment-24941" rel="nofollow">@James Robertson</a> Yeah I&#8217;m sure the calculation works for selected individuals. I was thinking more about the overall calculation as a business proposition. I just can&#8217;t see it ever getting enough sales to pay back the investment.</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1828 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:48:46 +0000 Dylan Reeve 1828@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">Dylan Reeve</span></div><p>No the programme guide is available through any internet connection. However all other internet services (on-demand content) is exclusive to Telecom Broadband connections.</p> <p>Personally I thought the service was pretty much doomed as soon as the price point and exclusive Telecom deal was announced. Before that I thought it was borderline given it&#8217;s inability to support Sky TV. </p> <p>There are things that TiVo does that my MySky box doesn&#8217;t (most notable being networking) but the price, Telecom tie-in, limited channels and poor on-demand offering rule the TiVo well out of contention.</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1827 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:38:34 +0000 Chainsaw 1827@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">Chainsaw</span></div><p>I just had a look at the Tivo website. You need telecom broadband to get the programme guide it seems. Are there any DVRs out there that can utilise the Freeview guide to record programmes? You know, one touch stuff?</p> http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/topic/surprising-tivo-uptake-is-unsurprising#post-1826 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:29:30 +0000 James Robertson 1826@http://www.ben.geek.nz/forum/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: <span class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo_name">James Robertson</span></div><p>I did the calc, but at the end of the day, I wanted Freeview, EPG, multi-tuners and something that would wireless stream from my pc. ok so its not actual streaming, but the solution ended up suiting us very well. Its not my perfect solution (which would be home built HTPC) but is fine for what I need and keeps Mrs very happy for daily soaps etc using season pass</p>