[opendtv] Re: [Fwd: Google Alert - fcc broadcast flag]
- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:44:11 -0700
Don't forget the Blue Screens of Death (BSOD's). At the Mandarin Oriental
in NYC, all of the rooms have TV's controlled by Windows Media Edition PC's.
I left the TV on & fell asleep, and was awakened in the middle of the night
by a BSOD and a machine making all kinds of funny noises. What was worse,
was the fact that there was no ctl-alt-del button. I was going to power
cycle it, but there's no power button. Finally, I had to move the dresser,
which doubled as the base of the TV, and weighed about 400 pounds, to get
access to the power cord and power cycle it the old fashioned way.
At 10:55 AM 10/8/2004, Kon Wilms wrote:
>Dirk Gently wrote:
>> I dumped my Tivo in the trash a few months ago and bought an MCE box - and
>> of course, they immediately announce a new version of Media Center.
>
>Please explain the logic behind choosing an inferior product.
>
>No HD support. Vendor lock-in (WMV/WMA). No provider CAM.
>Re-re-reencoding analog broadcasts or sources. Wiring all your cable/sat
>boxes with IR emitters. Waiting for XP^H^H whoops M C E to bootup.
>Waiting for the emitters to change channels. Watching overlay operator
>logo within operator logo within operator logo. Why, the hum from the
>PC^H^H sorry settopbo^H^H^H sorry *convergence* device is also a selling
>point!
>
>And the kicker - a $1000+ PC with less visual quality and 4-5x the size
>of the provider's STB it replaces - and you still need to keep the
>provider's STB just for the CA access. Priceless. At least you get fancy
>animated menus though, laid out just like the PC layer hiding beneath it.
>
>As a sidenote, http://www.xboxmediacenter.de/info_project.htm stomps all
>over MCE. Unfortunately no-one has the balls to put up the money to
>commercialize their project. It would destroy MCE (sub-$100 STB/Media
>Center with more functionality than MCE will ever have), after all.
>
>Cheers
>Kon
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