For those of you who were wondering, (I assume the rest of you just knew I was confused and would figure it out), I did realize that the electorate votes do go with the popular vote on a state-by-state basis — except for 1 or maybe 2 states where it’s proportional.
So that means I just have to wait and see what happens in two weeks. Whew.
I’ve got the TIVO working, and I also just bought a Panasonic DMR-E858 DVD recorder that will allow me two burn DVDs, and, if necessary, when combined with my TIVO and a cable splitter, record two channels simultaneously. Hee haw!
Many of you are sending me clips now to archive, and I’ll be getting those up as fast as I can. Weekends are better for that stuff now, as I am Wide Hiving and schooling during the week most of the time.
peace,
lisa
Category Archives: Fair Use Equipment
Robert Kaye On Endless Community Jukebox In The Sky
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Wireless == great jukebox in the sky? |
While aggregated wireless music collections won’t provide everything to everyone everywhere, they do have some interesting qualities that are worth exploring.
If the community around you has the music, do you need to download all of the music to your machine? Better get another bigger harddrive, because the community will have more music than you have harddrive space. So, I hope that people will truely start sharing their collections instead of actually copying them as the current file sharing networks do. And if we’re just sharing and not copying does that fall under fair use? (Never mind that fair use has been erradicated in the last few years).
Michael Powell Digs His New Tivo
Holy cow! Michael Powell got a TIVO and he loves it!
Now he can understand the true joy the modern Consumer can achieve while exercising their fair use and first sale rights.
FCC’s Powell declares TiVo ‘God’s machine’
By Jim Krane for the Las Vegas Associate Press.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a new convert — to the personal digital video recorder faithful.
“My favorite product that I got for Christmas is TiVo,” FCC chairman Michael Powell said during a question and answer session at the International Consumer Electronics Show. “TiVo is God’s machine.”
If Powell’s enthusiasm for digital recordings of TV broadcasts are reflected in FCC rulings, the entertainment industry could find it difficult to push in Washington its agenda for technical restrictions on making and sharing such recordings.
Powell said he intended to use the TiVo machine to record TV shows to play on other television sets in his home, and even suggested that he might share recordings with his sister if she were to miss a favorite show.
“I’d like to move it to other TVs,” he said of his digitally recorded programming. A number of products already allow that…
Powell said the FCC was examining the broadcast flag issue to determine whether the agency has a regulatory role. He suggested that Congress might “assign us a role so we have clear jurisdiction and resources to do it.”
Powell said he understood the needs to balance consumers’ fair use rights to make personal copies of television shows with Hollywood’s fears that TiVo-like technology allows exact copies to be made and easily sent over the Internet.
Apple Stands Firm Against DRM?
Help us Apple. Your our only hope.
Dan Gillmor: Apple stands firm against entertainment cartel
Meanwhile, Apple is holding fairly fast to the real compromise position. It’s encouraging honor, but not locking us down in ways that prevent innovative uses of the gear it sells.
Maybe Apple will cave, too. If it does, it will betray customers and principle. So far, however, so good.
I really hope Dan’s right about Apple.
I just made the decision a few weeks ago to buy a Mac instead of a PC for my video editing system because I did not want to commit to the Windows DRM in XP that would then own all of my video files from now until eternity.
For me, choosing a Mac was like choosing freedom. (Don’t think I don’t know how silly that sounds.)
This was sure the first time I’ve ever felt that way about buying a PC or a Mac before. And it’s a pretty crummy feeling actually, realizing that we live in a world where we have to make privacy and security decisions like that while in the process of buying a video editing system.
NY Times On Fair Use Equipment
Is it me? Or does the NY Times gets more and more annoying everytime I go there with the popups and the animated ads and the flashing lights and the (insert noise from the science freak guy on the simpsons here)….
Right now, DVD recorders convert an analog signal to digital data, but the day will soon arrive when broadcasters send that digital information straight to your home. At that point, the television shows you record may look as beautiful as the movies you buy. On the other hand, if broadcasters move to protect that digital signal from copying, you may not be able to record the shows at all.
LinuxTV Could Provide A Much Brighter Future for Digital Television
LinuxTV has the right idea:
Only the access to the source code of our future television sets will guarantee the independence of content and technology. This website is a platform for the development of open source software for digital television (DVB, DTV) receivers, Linux DVD players and tools to stream audio and video to the net.
Web-ify your Tivo
Here’s where to get the TurboNet card and some Newbie Hacking Instructions from TiVo sTeVe-o.
IPODs for Mixing
Here’s a pair of Wired News articles about DJs using IPODs in their sets:
They Walk Alike, They DJ Alike and With IPod, Who Needs a Turntable?.
Sony’s New Alienated Bookshelf Stereo CD Ripper System (sans Internet Connectivity or Digital Output)
Sony has announced a CMT-L7HD bookshelf stereo system that automatically copies the CDs you play on to a hard drive for future plays (you can also RIP them faster than playing speed in a handy “silent mode”.) You can also program ahead of time to record your favorite radio programs on to the device’s hard drive (not your computer’s hard drive) — just like a Tivo for broadcast radio (not webcasts).
Great idea, great product: once it has a digital output jack and wireless connection.
I certainly hope that this device’s lack of a digital output bus and Internet connectivity don’t count as copy protection mechanisms. Seems like there could be a big market for third parties to develop peripherals for these puppies. (Or perhaps that’s what Sony plans to do itself?)
See the NY Times article by David Pogue:
A Stereo That’s Small and Digital.
Homer Explains the Benefits of Multi-regional DVDs
<tangent>Wow. There’s a whole generation that is going to be more familar with Homer Simpson than Homer the Bard.</tangent>
See the story by Andrew Orlowski for the London Register:
Fox recommends hacked DVD players for The Simpsons.
Here’s the Simpsons UK FAQ excerpt in question:
Q: What does Regional Coding mean? Do I need a Multi-regional player?
Homer: “I have no idea whatsoever what regional coding means. But it is
essential that you buy a multi-regional player. Do it now. Don’t worry,
we’ll still be waiting here when you get back.”