It's also just the luminance signal. NTSC VHS only has about 80 lines of chrominance resolution. Requiring loss-less archiving is a pointless waste of digital storage space. DV is a perfectly reasonable editing format for VHS source. I recommend the Sony DVMC -DA1 converter. It ignores the Macrovision flag.

For those who don't want to support the scumbags at newscorp

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/techflash/2014/05/cox-communications-plans-1gigabit-speed-for.html

doughnuts?

These AOLoser accounts don't represent living beings. Everyone with a pulse left for greener pastures a decade ago. All that's left are the accounts of people who died and who's estates keep autopaying the bill. I.E., they are ZOMBIE accounts.

...and so it begins

You don't seem to understand what the "community" is. It's not Slashdot readers and participants, it's the officers and shareholders of Dice. THEY are not being ignored. Everything here is for their benefit, not yours. You are not the customer. You are the product.

There's nothing "elite" about the mechanism. I got a self-winding watch made by Seiko for my 18th birthday in 1973. I don't know what it cost, but we were a decidedly middle-class family. Still works great BTW.

Who the hell are they "announcing" things too? The doors don't even open until tomorrow. Saw a pic yesterday and they're still building everything. Manlifts and crews all over the place.

I just bought a Lenovo from their website a month ago with Win7 Pro on it.

... and Vegas/Premier/Avid and AutoCad/Blender/Maya and CGminer/Folding@home/SETI and ...

One word - Lenovo. I tried Sony and Toshiba in the old days. Complete junk. Screens fell off, keyboards stopped working, cooling systems crapped out. Got a used Thinkpad (1999 era) in the mid 2000's that is still being used as a print server in the back room. Got a dual-core in 2009 that still works like new. I just replaced a couple months ago with a W530 (workstation grade) quad-core so I could do HD video editing on the road without dying of old age before a render finished. Wasn't cheap though. About $1700 with SSD main drive and 500 GB secondary in the optical bay

BTW, I rarely use laptops as actual laptops. I mainly stuff them under the recliner with the lid closed and attach ethernet, a monitor on a swingarm, and a wireless keyboard & mouse. I have this setup in both of my houses. The only time I use the internal screen and keyboard is when I'm stuck at an airport or a family member's house.

Nothing is closed off on the original Tivos if you have a shell. You can use the i2c bus to interact with any hardware device on the motherboard - switch inputs, switch channels, mute, record, etc. All you need to do is print a device ID and a hex number to /dev/i2c and stuff starts happening. I used to have a partial list of characters and what they did, but I can't seem to find it ATM. As I recall, there was a tool created by Andrew Tridgell (Samba) called iicset.c that you could compile and use that made it even easier.

Haven't played around inside one for years so I don't know if you can still get a shell on the newer ones.

...and you never will. Smart criminals don't get caught. Prisons are filled with the stupid ones.

There was a lot more money in selling them whores, bullets, and booze.

Exactly. In my state, sales tax is damned near 10%. When I drop a couple of grand on an order of server parts, I'm NOT going to pay an extra $200 for no good reason. I buy from Amazon only when no one else has what I need in stock, including local merchants. Most of the time. I buy from NewEgg or B & H Photo, then spend the 10% savings on hookers and blow.

That's because the demographic that watches live TV (old people) tend to be on fixed incomes and don't buy new TVs every few years. Most other people have a DVR and that's where the cable card lives.