Re: TiVo-ise your PC

["Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxx>]

Building a PC for someone - its like selling your soul to the devil.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Kenneth Watt

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 8:43 PM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] TiVo-ise your PC

*Exactly*

 

I built a PC for my Father recently and put on Word, Excell, Outlook some CD burning gear and now a Kodak camera J The calls never bloody stop!

 

How do you connect to the internet again? How do I get bold type? How does the camera work again? What do I do to get a CD copied?

 

Sound familiar?

 

He’s getting there, but it’s slow, even other people that are not totally sure of PC’s yet far more tech. minded are never off the phone to me L

 

K.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mick Furlong [mailto:hiltoneltd@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2002 13:12
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] TiVo-ise your PC

 

Kenneth

 

my mother has just got online at the age of 70!

 

Believe me you dont want your mother to use the PC....you become a constant support desk ;)

 

Only kidding I think it is amazing she is doing this, now I just need to get my dad intereted in the auctions ;)

 

Mick

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2002 12:53
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] TiVo-ise your PC

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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