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echo: osdebate
to: Mike N.
from: Geo
date: 2006-07-12 06:17:24
subject: Re: Microsoft stabs their partners in the back yet again

From: "Geo" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:q4d4b212enmdpbig2shltis57nb53v4n2p{at}4ax.com...

>      But seriously, the main reason that I, a techno-geek still run a VCR?
> A media-PC or tivo should have the ability to record TV, Radio (air or
> satellite), as well as a commercial skipping feature.  Do they make such a
> beast? NO.   So I've ignored a whole market segment because of stupid DRM
> restrictions.

Get yourself a buffalo technologies link theater dvd player and download
whatever it is you would have recorded from the file sharing networks, the
commercials have already been edited out and the recordings are mostly top
quality work.

Stop thinking like it's the 1980's, it only takes one person to record the show...

Geo. (posted from a nearby drm free planet)

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