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2005

  • in MythTV
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MythTV ... a non-mythical solution

Shelly Palmer, Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has blogged about the NYT article on MythTV. It is a very well written commentary on why the Television Industry needs to change in order to survive, or more importantly, prosper.

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Marketing in the age of Ad-Zapping

The Australian has a nice piece on the Marketing perspective of ad-zapping. The quote below, to me, is a fundamental reality that over the air networks are going to have to come to grips with in the not too distant future. The question is, will they go down kicking and screaming like the RIAA, or will they learn to somehow embrace technology and turn this into an advantage... My bet's on the former. My guess is that we are going to be sued and legislated into watching commercials. The big networks are going to turn us all into criminals.

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The end of PVR's?

Stand up and take a bow Telesales Broadband (UK Broadband company), the company is investing £20 million in the development of TV-on-demand and personal video recorder (PVR) services in 2005. This appears to be a first step in TV-on-demand.

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New HD-3000

A few friends and I have taken a leap. We are putting together an order of 8 HD-3000 High Definition recording cards before the famous Broadcast Flag stuff becomes Law (June?).

  • in Hdtv
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WishTV from Brad Templeton

From Brad Templeton's weblog: Brad Ideas: Changing the nature of TV again

He has written a perl script to create a wishlist for MythTV.

It is a great idea, and has far more features and functionality than the 'WishList' feature of TiVo. I haven't tried it out yet, but I'd be interested to use it. My only critique of the concept in general, is that I would now have two places to manage my programming needs (MythTV's guide, and WishTV).