I guess where I'm confused is that the later hardware from that company did NOT have this feature - which is why I never upgraded! Perhaps this is true, I've gotten two responses saying so, but it also seems odd they pulled one of the major selling points from the new hardware when they felt they were in the right In the end the company went under fighting this, I hope that DISH has better luck although frankly I dumped them to get the TiVO DVR on Direct - and then dumped THEM when they too dumped TiVO. I now have two TiVO HDs with cablecard and am pretty happy :-)

How exactly have they changed it? The content is likely still on the disk, they just sense the commercials and skip ala ReplayTV. Replay was sued and lost on this BTW. I wonder when the TiVO 30second skip will get them sued as it pretty much allows you to jump over commercials too. 30second forward, 15 back - love it!

As for recording it and being allowed to do what you want - if you think anyone believes that in the industry you've not been paying attention. They want it locked up in a steel box, how dare you wish to move it to another device!

You might want to take a look at what occurred with ReplayTV. They were sued for this very thing, lost, and were forced to remove the option from new hardware. Needless to say they didn't last. I'm surprised the TiVO 30 second skip Easter egg hasn't gotten them slapped....

How does a NATO meeting and a war in another country connect exactly with how the military handles movies? Could that have been stretched any further?

Actually they seemed to have some ideas for functions that were bound and could be accelerated. However Intel contacted them having apparently already decided what instructions they were going to accelerate and they weren't useful. Additionally, as I recall, shortly after contacting the development team Intel sort of let on that these guys were somehow on board when in fact they were really only just being contacted and weren't. things didn't go really well after that and I couldn't find any more contact on the mailing list between the devs and the guy who claimed to be from Intel after that.

I do a HUGE amount of x.264 encoding at home. I'd LOVE to be able to accelerate it and in fact did my own testing of the various GPU accelerators awhile back. I didn't have as great an issue with the quality as I did the lack of flexability and control over the encoders and thus gave up on it. In fact some of the GPU encoders would ONLY leverage the GPU and my CPU was nearly as fast! When both were used together the GPU encoders were certainly quicker but with so little flexability I decided against using them . I had high hopes that the new generation i7 stuff with accelerated instructions would help but I guess not :-(

Yeah now go look at the heaping scorn that was heaped on the Intel rep when he approached the x.264 guys way late in development. Had they been smart enough to come forward sooner we might have gotten accelerated instructions the x.264 guys would have used - not so now it seems. :-(

unRAID will do this and in fact I often come home and find all my drives spun down as nothing is accessing them. Can put them all in one array too and the only "waste" will be the single parity drive. Been running it for at LEAST 5-6 years or more and have never lost data...

I've been using unRAID since the beginning, unless this is new I do not believe you can have redundant data on multiple drives. You CAN spread a single folder across multiple drives and the parity drive protects against crashes and enables recovery. Since parity isn't striped drives spin down when not needed too.

So far I've not lost any data and I've had multiple drives fail over the years - never a dual failure however which unRAID cannot protect against. However if a dual failure occurs you don't lose it all either and I don't need tons of hot spares and crap spinning.

unRAID is perfect for this application IMO...

Are you running TOR? If not the TOR .Onion link won't work. I don't happen to have TOR installed or I'd have explored the hidden site myself. So far though no one seems to have found the code to download and test near as I can tell...

I cannot find anything on the site that appears to make it available to me in a form I can run, a GIT repo for devs and some press releases is all. I suppose I could hit the "secure" .onion site but I see nothing to indicate there's code there. the summary appears to make it sound like they want participation and I'd love to help but see no way to do so.

Am I the only one that finds this clear as mud?