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My Digital Camera History
I’ve been using digital cameras for a long time. In the beginning, the quality wasn’t the best. My wife wasn’t totally impressed with the quality, but I liked the convenience and the easy way to keep my pictures backed up. So, for a while, we each had a camera and took our own pictures with our own camera. My daughter probably felt like she was being chased by Paparazzi. (Or she would have if she hadn’t been so young.)
Forget the Hopper, I have the Destroyer
So, the networks
with the Hopper from Dish Network.
Specifically, they are not happy that the service allows users to easily skip commercials. I got a Replay TV (Actually, a Panasonic Showstopper PVR) in 2000 that I used until they pulled the “lifetime” channel guide a few years ago. I paid a fortune for that, we need to work on the definition of “lifetime” I guess. The Replay TV had a button on the remote that would jump forward 30 seconds. Of course, Replay TV kind of flew under the RADAR, but it was a very handy feature when commercials came on.
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Plex Has Come a Long Way
Several years ago, I was using Plex as a way to watch movies. I had my TV connected to my iMac as a second monitor and used Plex as the interface to control the content on my TV.
When I first started using it, Plex was standard Mac app, somewhat like a cross between Front Row and iTunes. It was an offshoot of XBMC, and it has really evolved.
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Digital Video Content
I know from past experience, that Apple really is not interested in pretty much anything their users have to say. They dictate, and we meekly accept whatever they deign to allow us to do.
But at least for the short term, there is a huge problem (from a consumer standpoint, not so much for Apple) with the way they are making video available.
Video on the iTunes store is HUGE!
I was in Vegas on a business trip. The hotel I stayed at had pay per day Internet, and it was per device and was not WiFi. I brought my Verizon MiFi with me, so opted not to pay the $14 per day for in-room Internet. This was fine for everything except getting a new movie on my iPad for my trip home. My trip home was going to take 10+ hours, and I would have actually preferred 2 movies, but there was a problem with that.
Video on the iTunes store is HUGE!
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