NomadYarg - Slashdot User

Nolan Bushnell Disappointed With PS3 124

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @03:25PM from the coin-op-frustration dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Atari founder Nolan Bushnell points out that PS and PS2 got lucky with their release, 'It wasn't anything brilliant that they did. With the PS and PS2 it was timing. They had the right pricing at the right time [and were] almost the accidental winner.' But he sees things differently this time around. 'It would not surprise me if a year from now they'll be struggling to sell 1 million units.'" I find that kind of hard to believe, but he raises some more salient points in the other parts of the article.

Comment TV is already text searchable. (Score 1) 87

by NomadYarg on Wednesday December 08, 1999 @10:23AM (#1475397) Attached to: Online Speech Indexing

TV input cards that let you watch TV on your computer will download all of the "Closed Captioning" text and then let you search it. There is no reason why you couldn't setup something that watches all channels for closed captioning text and indexes all of it.

Espesially with these new hard-drive VCR's that let you pause a TV show while you go "take a #2". This device could also watch particular channels and buffer them for an hour while it searches it's closed captioning for specific search criteria. When it sees the text you are looking for in the closed captioning text it will send the whole program to tape. It would be pretty nifty I think if I could have my computer watch the Science Channel for anything to do with Quantum computing and when it does it will output the whole thing to tape. It's like having your computer watch TV for you and only get the good stuff. :-)

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