Sunday, August 11, 2002

An Online Revolution That Isn't Happening. What is (and isn't) available on the Web for classical music listeners. By Allan Kozinn. [New York Times: Technology]

The F.C.C. Has Voted: A Digital Tuner for Every TV. The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to require television manufacturers to include digital tuners in almost every television sold. By Daniel Altman. [New York Times: Technology]

Neat TiVo feature. Cool TiVo feature: If you're looking at a show description and you hit the "Enter" key, you get a detailed description screen, including episode numbers, original air dates, cast info, director, etc. Keen! Discuss (Thanks, craigthom!) [Boing Boing Blog]

Tivo-WAN. Network-enabled Tivo "I recently got networkworking on my Tivo. This allows me to do a lot of things I couldn't do before. For example, I can control the Tivo from any computer that's connected to the Internet. I can add season passes remotely, control what's currently playing, delete shows, etc. There are a lot of possibilities. One thing Tivo people like to do is compare and contrast the things their Tivos record for them. So I figured I'd make it easy for people by putting all that information up on the web. On my new Tivo page, you can see what's currently playing (even if nobody is currently watching it). You can also see the full list of shows now showing, all of my season passes and the todo list. Maybe someday I'll even get a screen capture of what's currently playing." [lukwarm.com, via life - listed chronologically] I am strangely fascinated by these lists on Lukas' site. I want this for my ReplayTV!! We need neighborhoods, aggregators, and rankings for sharing these types of lists. I actually probably would share my ReplayTV lists because I wanted to, but not if the entertainment industry demanded it. Too bad they don't understand how to work with their customers instead of repeatedly antagonizing them. [The Shifted Librarian]

I just spent 10 days in Zermatt, so there's a lot of catching up to do. In the meantime, Radio dropped a couple days and then froze so I couldn't do any remote updates. Probably just as well...it was a vacation, after all!       Google It!