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PsychoPhil: Macrovision support is now manifesting itself via restrictions on how long long you can save episodes you record on your TiVo, as well as placing restrictions on whether or not you can transfer the content via TiVoToGo or other media devices. Content that is restricted shows up with a red flag icon next to it, with an attendant message saying “the copyright holder prohibited saving the episode past date mm/dd.” Despite assurances that Macrovision support would only affect pay-per-view and premium content, the “feature” is clearly enabled for regular old TV episodes, as well. (via Cosmos)
technology filter: What happened at Tivo? Seems the company suddenly stopped selling. Period. (Source: RealTechNews.com) Sprint releases the first Mobile 5.0 smartphone in the US. And it's a honker. (Source: Sprint) MSN Virtual Earth shows Katrina Devestation (via Cosmos)
TV Snob.com - TV on DVD, LCD TV, Plasma, HDTV, DVD, DLP, TV Shows, Portable TVS, Flat CRT, PSP, & Portable Video Devices - News: At this time, potential web customers are being directed to Order at Best Buy. Upon calling 1-877-BUY-TIVO a recording informed me, We are currently experiencing technical difficulties. (via Cosmos)
Elephant In Exile: I am a former Chief of Staff to a Republican Congressman and current attorney/lobbyist My ideology leans right in classic conservative sense with a libertarian twist. (via Cosmos)
Davenetics: Newsmonger: Some posts on the TiVo Community boards indicate that the company that went under was called Metron, and it handled all the direct-from-TiVo phone and Internet sales until recently. TiVo is currently redirecting all DVR sales to resellers like Best Buy, and will not sell gift subscriptions or TiVo-branded accessories (like remotes) for the time being. (via Cosmos)
blackrimglasses.com: Speech Bubbles An awesome experiment with phenomenological experience and the desire of people to find information where otherwise things are blank. It provokes questioning as to the need to anthropomorphize as well as why the nascent desire to transgress boundaries is only tapped upon the provokation through existing and typical signifiers (speech bubbles). (via Cosmos)
[Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo - Home Entertainment: Some posts on the TiVo Community boards indicate that the company that went under was called Metron, and it handled all the direct-from-TiVo phone and Internet sales until recently. TiVo is currently redirecting all DVR sales to resellers like Best Buy, and will not sell gift subscriptions or TiVo-branded accessories (like remotes) for the time being.
[Realtechnews.com] RealTechNews.com - Independent Tech: "Bloggers and search-engine marketers are accusing the open-source WordPress project of spamming the major search engines, while at the same time being one of the advocates in an effort to combat comment spam in blog postings. The discovery emerged late Wednesday when the blog Waxy.org revealed that thousands of articles about such popular search terms as asbestos, mortgages and debt consolidation appear on sections of the WordPress.org site while being hidden from visitors to the site's home page.
[Vrypan.net] lilina news aggregator: Kendall brings up what’s missing in Web 2.0 is a common query language and it just so happens SPARQL is a common query language, backed up by a common data model (RDF) and syntax (RDF/XML). He suggests that the Web 2.0 folks provide an RDF wrapper to their data, and both groups can then benefit from the same query language, which will make things a whole lot simpler: So what, really, can SPARQL do for Web 2.0?
[Jeffchang.com] Jeffrey's News: Basically, I had heard that Seinfeld's Jay Peterman (John O'Hurley) had gotten screwed. I don't care much for dance-offs, but I don't like Peterman getting screwed.
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