I'd not considered the DVD-R possibilities of recording; I assumed they broadcast Pay-Per-View with additional copyprotection, like Macrovision or something. I do a low-rent version of this with my kids' old Sesame Street VHS tapes - I play them and record to the HDD recorder, then burn a DVD to play whenever, which avoids wearing out the tapes. Unfortunately when I tried the same thing with our purchased Disney VHS tapes, they all are copy protected. Hm... maybe if I use a video-out from the TV, the additional signal may be ignored... /rambling
US$80 for 2 cellphones with unlimited minutes between the two still seems high to me, but it would also depend on packet usage, right?
Golly, that US$125 for cable/internet/landline/digital-radio seems high. I wonder if the monopoly that cable companies have will ever be disrupted, and if so what effect it will have on pricing.
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Date: 2007-01-10 12:52 am (UTC)I'd not considered the DVD-R possibilities of recording; I assumed they broadcast Pay-Per-View with additional copyprotection, like Macrovision or something. I do a low-rent version of this with my kids' old Sesame Street VHS tapes - I play them and record to the HDD recorder, then burn a DVD to play whenever, which avoids wearing out the tapes. Unfortunately when I tried the same thing with our purchased Disney VHS tapes, they all are copy protected. Hm... maybe if I use a video-out from the TV, the additional signal may be ignored...
/rambling
US$80 for 2 cellphones with unlimited minutes between the two still seems high to me, but it would also depend on packet usage, right?
Golly, that US$125 for cable/internet/landline/digital-radio seems high. I wonder if the monopoly that cable companies have will ever be disrupted, and if so what effect it will have on pricing.