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| richardL |
 Nov 23 2003, 06:09 PM
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Discovery HD showed Japanese coverage of the total solar eclipse from Antarctica. Amazing to see HD pictures from the ground of the frozen south along with live coverage from a plane at 30,000ft. During totallity you could clearly see a red solar flare sticking up from the sun as well as the corona.
The sun is barely above the horizon down there, so it was very impressive so low down. Going to see the new HDTiVo on Tuesday at a sneak peek. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) Richard |
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| richardL |
Nov 26 2003, 09:33 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 27-January 03 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 201 Region Association: None |
Yes, we went into TiVo's offices and they gave us a long demo and had about 6 engineers as well as some marketing people present.
They were very forthcoming except for price and availability (DirectTV get to do that). The unit looked pretty good and was very stable - essentially a production version. It behaves exactly like a regular TiVo except in glorious HD. You can specify HD only etc. in Wishlists and so on. It has four tuners - 2 satellite and 2 OTA and you can record (or watch) any combination of 2. Composite and HDMI outputs - no firewire. It does have two USB 2.0 ports that are not enabled and they wouldn't tell us when they would be. The DirectTV version doesn't have the HMO package (MP3s and JPGs). They were feeding into a Sony LCD projector and a 100" screen and it looked great. Slow motion etc. were perfect. They fed us and sat around and talked a lot about general plans and some cool things they have planned in the past. Main push now is to get it released. I can't wait, I hate watching live TV. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/boldblue.gif) Richard |
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richardL NPC: Anyone see the Total Eclipse on Discovery HD Nov 23 2003, 06:09 PM
fiid HDTiVo? Sneak Peak? Where? I want one !... Nov 23 2003, 06:15 PM steve@ottosvenice.com I was in Cabo in 91 for the Full Eclipse. Its is a... Nov 23 2003, 06:51 PM seanery DirecTV announced at CEDIA that they would have (t... Nov 23 2003, 07:04 PM richardL Yeah, they showed it last year as well. Sometime i... Nov 23 2003, 07:25 PM fiid Did you see it? Is it cool? Whass the deal? I h... Nov 26 2003, 02:40 AM fiid Me also. I have a Sanyo Widescreen HD projector t... Nov 26 2003, 12:26 PM
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