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...they had bitchy ex-girlfriends back then too--along with the occasional steamy sex scene and a short course in such lost arts as flint knapping. It's strangely absorbing: Auel's plodding prose won't win any Pulitzers, but there's a comfort to be had in her TiVo-free world, where people still get excited about a new way to make soap. Not that you will catch Auel pining for the old days. "I'd love to go visit there," she admits, "but I'd want to come back. Thank you, I prefer a nice hot shower...
...built-in cable modem for Cablevision. Last November Sony unveiled its new WEGA TV, which can download programs from a wireless network hub. In January, Moxi Digital, a start-up, unveiled the Moxi Media Center, a network-ready set-top box with a built-in personal video recorder (think TiVo), DVD player, MP3 jukebox and a receiver for cable or satellite TV. EchoStar is expected to be the first dealer to distribute it later this year...
...biggest threat to Hollywood may not come from the geeks but from so-called personal video recorders. Like its competitor TiVo, which has sold some 400,000 units to date, the newer Replay which has sold only 5,000, gives owners an easy, menu-driven way to search for shows to record onto its hard drive. The reason Sonicblue got sued is that the new Replay 4000, which hit the market in late November and sold out before Christmas, automatically fast-forwards shows past commercials and lets broadband users send them to friends over the Internet. (TiVos do not offer...
...According to Forrester Research, personal video recorders will be in 40% of all U.S. households by 2006. Until better encryption or industry-ordained alternatives give consumers legitimate ways to watch any show, anytime--without bothering to set the VCR--pirating and trading are bound to flourish. Even then, concedes TiVo president Morgan Gunther, "nothing is unhackable." While soap operas and sitcoms may not be getting any smarter, our ways of watching them almost certainly will...
...According to Forrester Research, personal video recorders will be in 40% of all U.S. households by 2006. Until better encryption or industry-ordained alternatives give consumers legitimate ways to watch any show, anytime--without bothering to set the VCR--pirating and trading are bound to flourish. Even then, concedes TiVo president Morgan Gunther, "nothing is unhackable." While soap operas and sitcoms may not be getting any smarter, our ways of watching them almost certainly will...