Poster: Galahad-Fairlight Date: 2002/10/10 18:19:50
I'm surprised at you gents! Why are you bothering to vent your spleens here to the converted?
Why not vent them on The Slate itself (the site the comments originated from).
Excellent point! For those who didn't follow the link, "Slate" is the on-line magazine (read: house organ) of Microsoft, an effort that they once sought to charge subscriptions to read. Microsoft makes its own TiVo-like system called Ultimate TV, and the article mentioned PVR capabilties being added to the Xbox 2. Xbox 2?! Has anyone else heard about this mythical beast before? Seems to me Xbox 1 has it's own problems, not to mention that between its on-board hard drive and broadband and video connectors, the current Xbox is a decent app (BWAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!) away from being a PVR itself. The PS2s hard drive has yet to even be introduced, let alone rolled out, but add that and a good app, and voila! Hell, my current 'puter is in the same state, given that I have a TV tuner card installed.
That said, and barring Sony giving me a wonderful new expansion to my PS2, I'd go with a Replay unit if I was getting one o' these puppies just for my TV. Their top of the line player excises commercials in much the same way as my VCRs Commercial Skip feature does, but the Replay's version might just be a seamless transition between the end of one segment and the beginning of the next, instead of waiting till the tape is automatically fast-forwarded to the next segment. And yes, there is a difference between hitting a button to skip past commercials and having the unit do it by itself: the latter way is MUCH better!
