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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?).

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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).

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Automating commercial cutting

One of the nice features of mythtv is that it can do commercial detection, and from that, build a cutlist. My biggest problem, and what kept me from using this feature was that I thought you had to use the user interface to do this. Alas, I have found that indeed there is a command line way to generate the cutlist. Using mythcommflag -f <filename> you can create the commercial flags, the coming back and using mythcommflag --blanks -f give me the cutlist.

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HDTV Viewing update

Not much earth-shattering to report here. The good news is that I have been recording like a madman, and trying to perfect the process before the new fall season begins. I think I have a pretty good process down at this point.

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Fedora Core 2.0 update

I'm still waiting to upgrade to Fedora Core 2.0, for two reasons.

  1. The nvidia driver does not compile against the native kernel
  2. I haven't had the time
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Remote happiness

I have followed the advice of Jared Wilson (archive link) a few months ago and went to Radio Shack and picked up a remote. I got the 15-2117 (with the RF command center). I pretty much followed his directions for setting it up verbatim, but I have always had problems navigating. Sometimes I have to press a button on the remote several times in order to get it to move around the MythTV menus. The latest CVS release (for some reason) really exacerbated the problem. I actually had to revert to my wireless keyboard just to watch a movie.

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Fedora Core 2.0

It looks like Fedora Core 2.0 is out, and I've heard that HDTV playback is significantly improved with Linux kernel 2.6. I think my next step is to create another partition and install FC 2.0 and try to get this thing going again from the ground up.