Re: Showshifter & me - all your base belong to us

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxx>]

> Agreed, but for mass-market appeal this is not an option and
> TiVo/Sky+/Replay all work out of the box, which is the point I was
> making.

I think everyone agrees there.  SS is *not* for your average user.

> I like to let PC's do PC things and leave the rest of the devices to
do
> what they are good at and what they where intended to do.

I think that was the point of the post.  Where you have room for just
one
box, the only box which will do everything is a PC.  BTW, this is
going to
sound insulting to some, and for this, I apologise, but, I've noticed
that
the older generation (by this, I mean most people over 40, and some in
their
30s - I'm early 20s, so anything over 25 is old!) don't like
multi-functional boxes.  There seems to be this thought that a box can
only
do one thing at a time.  Where you can do multiple things with one box
just
as well as a multitude of boxes (which is not the case with Tivo, ATM),
why
not?  It's efficient.

> Fair enough, stick with SS then. Me I like my "noddy" point
and click
> TiVo for the moment as does SWMBO which is even more to the point.
;-)

Agreed.  Tivo is very good at what it does, and better than SS at
the
moment, especially for a plug-n-play device.  Whether it'll remain
this way
is to be seen.

Andy



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