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[motomotoyama]

Heroes starts back up tonight, but I will be bowling. I hope I can watch it on the NBC website tomorrow. Or maybe I should just suck it up and buy a subscription to the show. There's all sorts of chatter on the internets about how NBC sucks because they canceled their deal with iTunes and moved over to Amazon, but I don't care who they use, I just want to be able to download my show. I know that I could record it myself, but I'm not even sure my VCR works anymore, and I don't own anything as fancy as a DVR. It's been on the list of electronics purchases, but video game consoles are apparently more important to me. More useful, anyway. Why doesn't xBox include that functionality? Or Playstation? I might buy one then.

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[dagmar-b.livejournal.com]

for some odd reasons a memory of you buy a friend-of-a-friend's tivo?!?! wouldn't that work or did you get rid of it or is my memory messed up?!?!

[motomotoyama.livejournal.com]

Actually, Maya's friend gave me her TiVo a while back, but I can't get it to work with my home network to save my life. I think it's a generation behind . . .

[dagmar-b.livejournal.com]

man, that stinks!

[irrationalrobot.livejournal.com]

At one point, I think the Xbox was supposed to have some DVR functionality, but apparently that got cut in favor of the weaker "Media Center Extender" approach- so if you have a media center PC in your house, your 360 can connect to it and play content from it.

What the 360 currently has is the capacity to download shows to your harddrive or to your media center for a fee- I believe it is 2 or 3 bucks (HD or not HD is the price diff) for an "episode" of anything. This is a good deal for me when it comes to south park, a disappointment for something like the Daily Show (where I really only want the first 10 minutes or so), and a mind-blowing embarassment when it comes to something like Robot Chicken (which is only 10 minutes long in the first place).

They also could use a subscription model, something like "$2 an episode unless you buy a whole season, then $1" or something like that. Hrmph.