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Toast titanium tivo1/26/2024 ![]() There is an antidote to that, for the networks and their advertisers. I love my TiVo, and I skip stupid commercials, so I guess that makes me a thief. Not too long ago a big media executive whined about how people who used TiVo were stealing. Author Alderete Posted on JanuAugCategories TiVo Tags apple, drm, fairplay, ipod, itunes, music, sonos, tivo Stop Stealing Feed Remember that the iPod didn’t start out as an iconic device, and a large part of its spread and success came from the same people who will be happy to see FairPlay opened up. Yeah, this is kind of touchy-feely, but if Apple opens up FairPlay voluntarily, before they are forced to, it will generate goodwill and positive buzz, and in the Internet age, that can spread pretty far and wide. There is a rumor this is the first of many.Ĭustomers. And when your partners start conspiring against you, you’re fucked.Īpple has apparently already licensed FairPlay to NetGear. At some point, “desperate times, desperate measures” will apply. Apple is so successful at selling music right now that Apple is in the driver’s seat, and that’s not something the recording industry has historically been good at accepting. The efforts of Apple’s competitors have to date been pretty laughable, but when their current partners, the record companies, start saying they might consider selling music without DRM attached, it’s not because they’re happy with the status quo. While it hasn’t lead to Microsoft’s downfall, it has added drag to their momentum. “Everyone but Microsoft” is constantly trying to make effective alliances, and constantly showing up to testify in lawsuits (see the previous item). Too much success will turn the competitive market into “everyone but Apple.” Apple is going to have to do it eventually.It’s already happening in Norway, the Netherlands, and other European states. That in turn will bring consumer lawsuits and government intervention. With the success Apple has had with the iTunes Store, they have or will reach a level that some will consider a monopoly. Too much success means lawsuits and government action, neither of which is good for business. Instead, I’ll simply buy CDs, and keep my basic cable and Netflix subscriptions. Those devices do not work as well as my Sonos and TiVo, not even close. I’m not going to buy an AirPort Express or an Apple TV for the privilege of buying content from the iTunes Store. And I won’t buy movies or TV shows from the iTunes Store because they can’t be played over the network via my TiVo. I’ve spent more than $400 on the iTunes Store, but I stopped buying FairPlay protected tracks 10 seconds after I realized they wouldn’t play over my new Sonos music system. Requiring people to give up things they like is more likely to lose sales than to convince them to buy new Apple stuff. Running into the wall of customers’ other (non-Apple) devices slows sales.Here I want to lay out a logical argument for why Apple should do this, in their own best interests. I have some very specific, personal reasons why I want to see Apple license their FairPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) system to other device makers I’ll publish those later this week. Author Alderete Posted on NovemAugCategories About This Site, TiVo Tags tivo 5 Comments on Announcing Aldo on TiVo Five reasons Apple should license FairPlay The article covers installing and configuring TiVo Desktop software on your computer, downloading video from the Internet using Miro, converting it to a TiVo-compatible format with VisualHub, and transferring it to your TiVo for playback.Ĭurrently the instructions are Mac-only, but a reasonably savvy person could easily figure out how to use them on a PC, with slightly different software (pointers are given in the article). Playing BitTorrent Downloads on a TiVo Series 3 It’s not nearly as easy-to-use as iTunes and an Apple TV, but it does work, and with the much wider variety of video content available on the Internet, something that iTunes can’t handle. Announcing Aldo on TiVo!Ĭurrently there is only one article in the section, Playing BitTorrent Downloads on a TiVo Series 3, reflecting a new trick that I figured out for my TiVo, namely downloading video from the Internet and playing it back, in high-definition (HD). Instead of working on updated versions of my instructions for importing audiobooks into iTunes, I have instead branched out, adding a new section covering a new topic.
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