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Media

Digital TV Choices Proliferate

August 1, 2003

Today’s NYT Circuits section has an article about the proliferation of digital television choices for cable and satellite customers. They mention that Time Warner Cable will be starting to offer DVR cable boxes to New York City subscribers in September 2003. The time-shifting features of the new Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 set-tops are unusually powerful. [...]

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The Empire Strikes Back

July 31, 2003

I’ve been wondering when the consumer electronics and telecommunications companies and the politicians were going to wake up and see what a lightening rod the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) full frontal assault on consumers is becoming. Now, SBC – of all companies – has taken a brave stand against the RIAA. Is this [...]

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Why MythTV Matters

July 30, 2003

[Editor's Note: As part of my effort to archive writing from several previous blogs, I've included all of my posts from the HomeTech blog that appeared at Metro-Mesh.com (no longer active). This is the first of the posts from that blog which I maintained on that site through January of 2005 before migrating the content [...]

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