From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 23 18:34:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 369D037B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA12493; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:34:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAdPaOuy; Mon Apr 23 18:34:35 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA14612; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:35:09 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200104240135.SAA14612@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Unanswered post(s) To: dchulhan@uwi.tt (Dale Chulhan - Work) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:35:08 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <000d01c0cc12$970552c0$100101c8@openaccess03> from "Dale Chulhan - Work" at Apr 23, 2001 12:29:35 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello I asked a very serious question about a FreeBSD based > version of TiVo and no one replied ... > > Any one care to comment? It's already been done by TiVo and Replay TV. I guess the question to your non-answer is that if it has already been done, why would you want to do it over again, if it's going to cost you more than a TiVo or Replay TV box, and the only difference is that it's BSD? If you want to start an Open Source project to do the deed, start by providing working code that basically does some of what you want to do. Working code is what it takes to start an Open Source project. I think that you might find yourself in the same boat as the DECSS folks, the first time someone makes some content available, like a sports game to a blacked out area. Personally, I don't think it's an interesting thing to do; the DVD playing code is interesting, but is stomped on by the paranoia police. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message