Thousands and Thousands of Hours of PVR TV 264
Thomas Hawk writes "Cory Doctorow is posting over at Boing Boing about some technology that he apparently saw this weekend at London's Open Tech conference. According to Cory, this new technology from Promise TV takes the form of a home-built PVR with lots of high-capacity hard drives and claims to be able to record every show on every channel being recorded in the UK for an entire month. 'Why program a TiVo to get certain shows for you when you can record every single show on the air, all at once, and then use recommendations, search, a grid, or any other means you care to name to figure out which of those thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of programming you want to watch.' The company seems somewhat cryptic with a simple website that appears to be collecting your email addresses for an announcement in August. "
Places Pinky Against Lip (Score:2, Funny)
ONE
MILLION
HOURS!
MWHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Where are the frickin sharks with laser beams?
A month later (Score:5, Funny)
You just need one hardcore nerd per block... (Score:4, Funny)
Before you trot out all your legal objections, just let me say that you now have a legitimate reason to talk with the cute girl three doors over you've never met.
Channel Hopping (Score:4, Funny)
"...use recommendations, search, a grid, or any other means you care to name to figure out which of those thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of programming you want to watch..."
Those poor channel-hoppers, who can't watch a programme for more than 10 minutes without wondering what else might be on, will now have all the material from the past to choose from aswell. Lucky them!
Why stop there? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Timing (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You just need one hardcore nerd per block... (Score:1, Funny)
Got my vote
Re:Ummm... (Score:3, Funny)
> And if you only count 60% of those 5 you end up with 3. Sure, just 3. That's 40% down on your bizarre subset of the channels available for free.
And if you don't count those 3, we have no TV.
MY GOD, WE HAVE NO TV! Who will watch the tellytubbies now?
Re:Why stop there? (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#c ached [google.com]
Re:You just need one hardcore nerd per block... (Score:2, Funny)
Strange Setting for this Device (Score:2, Funny)
Of all the amazing and wonderful things I see while visiting London, none come close to sucking as bad as British TV. Why would I want to record an entire month of that garbage? *ducks*
Re:You just need one hardcore nerd per block... (Score:5, Funny)