Besides, I would like to be able to go back and read what everyone else thought.
:-) Are you like me and have to write out your own thoughts before you read any reviews? I don't know why, but I like to clarify my own thoughts before I read what everyone else thought. That's not to say that I'm not still influenced by it, because I am. Others always have so many good insights into things and notice things that I never notice, and so on.
iTunes is exactly the sort of service I'm happy to pay for and thrilled to see. Also? legal download=less explosure to viruses and miscreants.
Exactly on both counts. I never liked the idea of downloading entire TV shows either, but that's not to say that I haven't tried--always unsuccessfully. OTOH, I have downloaded clips--especially when the show was airing first in the UK in the second half of the season.
If I thought it would allow me to cap episodes I enjoyed, I'd pony up the money in a heartbeat. However, I'm pretty sure those things are coded nine ways to Sunday to keep that from happening.
I don't know. There are probably programs that can strip that away. I know that when I buy downloaded music, it's in WMV format. I bought CD players that would play WMV files, but they won't play the coded ones that I've downloaded, so I had to figure a way around that, which means burning them to CD and then ripping them from the CD with another program. I figure that's fair use since I *should* be able to play the music files on my own CD players. *g* Otherwise, what's the point?
If I get an iPod, I'll have to continue do the same, since that won't play my coded WMV files. I suppose I could start buying music from iTunes instead of MusicMatch, but that wouldn't help for the zillions of songs I already downloaded with MusicMatch over the past few years.
My Tivo is hooked up to my computer network, and I can transfer files of TV shows from one to the other or to any computer in the house. There are two programs that have the codes so that you can legally burn them to DVD on your computer, but there is also a program that you can use to strip the coding and turn it into a regular MPG files. (I've never tried burning with my computer, though, because I have an external DVD burner anyway, though it's broken right now.)
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:-) Are you like me and have to write out your own thoughts before you read any reviews? I don't know why, but I like to clarify my own thoughts before I read what everyone else thought. That's not to say that I'm not still influenced by it, because I am. Others always have so many good insights into things and notice things that I never notice, and so on.
iTunes is exactly the sort of service I'm happy to pay for and thrilled to see. Also? legal download=less explosure to viruses and miscreants.
Exactly on both counts. I never liked the idea of downloading entire TV shows either, but that's not to say that I haven't tried--always unsuccessfully. OTOH, I have downloaded clips--especially when the show was airing first in the UK in the second half of the season.
If I thought it would allow me to cap episodes I enjoyed, I'd pony up the money in a heartbeat. However, I'm pretty sure those things are coded nine ways to Sunday to keep that from happening.
I don't know. There are probably programs that can strip that away. I know that when I buy downloaded music, it's in WMV format. I bought CD players that would play WMV files, but they won't play the coded ones that I've downloaded, so I had to figure a way around that, which means burning them to CD and then ripping them from the CD with another program. I figure that's fair use since I *should* be able to play the music files on my own CD players. *g* Otherwise, what's the point?
If I get an iPod, I'll have to continue do the same, since that won't play my coded WMV files. I suppose I could start buying music from iTunes instead of MusicMatch, but that wouldn't help for the zillions of songs I already downloaded with MusicMatch over the past few years.
My Tivo is hooked up to my computer network, and I can transfer files of TV shows from one to the other or to any computer in the house. There are two programs that have the codes so that you can legally burn them to DVD on your computer, but there is also a program that you can use to strip the coding and turn it into a regular MPG files. (I've never tried burning with my computer, though, because I have an external DVD burner anyway, though it's broken right now.)