Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Apr 4, 9:42 am, Andy McFadden <fad...@fadden.com> wrote:

> > I barely even know what a TiVo is. The only way I know at all is from stale
> > US TV shows that have oozed over here slowly.
> > Was it really so influential?
>
> Apparently you are not of the body.
>
> You will pry my TiVo from my cold dead hands, and probably not even then.

The Television industry is a very different beast in Australia. There
are only three commercial free to air networks and two cable players,
and they're trying their level best to take advantage of outdated
draconian copyright law and prevent the introduction of PVR's to the
Australian market. Heck, providing machine-consumable television
programming information is illegal here.

A few bold individuals import TiVo's and hack them to work with the
local television system, but it's essentially an underground
phenomena. I think that's what Tristan was eluding to.

The geek (and even non-geek) crowd in Australia is skipping over PVR,
since actual content is *very* limited and most of it is imported from
the US or UK, so the better model for us is to torrent our content via
the net.

Or so I've heard anyway :-)

Matt