RE: TiVo-ise your PC

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Ideas like this are all very well and good and I do support the thought
and advancements in the technology to achieve this type of media
convergence.

The "however" is that for any manufacturer to succeed in a field
such as
this the product must be easily accessible and useable by the mass
market, it's fine for us as most of us have at least a fair
understanding of and are PC literate. But most of the general public
just don't care, they cannot see any tangible benefit to it, TiVo is the
perfect example of public apathy, yet speak to anyone that bought one
and has actually used it(Mark M ;-))! TiVo is simple, the operative word
being simple, as in any idiot with a few brains cells can pick up the
remote and operate it and they can't make the punters see the benefits
in that!

What this type of technology relies upon is people understanding PC's,
what they can do and how to use them, since I struggle to get most of my
family to use Word what possible hope is there of getting them to be
able to understand this? My father struggles to program the VCR let
alone operate in PC environment and understand capturing, quality rate
etc. and my Mother simply won't go near the PC.

I would say that Comet and Currys will still be around for many a long
year yet flogging VCR's to the masses ;-)

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:tony.butler@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 February 2002 12:27
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: [ukha_d] TiVo-ise your PC
>
> Might be of interest to some ppl......
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/24222.html
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