Why I Will One Day Rule the (Technology) World
Ok, I know the chance of the situation in the title of this post is next to impossible, but I’m not one to back down from a challenge. Everyone thinks they have the next big idea, and some do; not everyone can be right though, so having enough “next great ideas” means your chances of hitting on one of them is better. Now, perhaps the title is misleading, as it implies that I’d explain in this post some of these great ideas. Not happening. ;)
If I was ever given a shopping spree and able to spend whatever I wanted, chances are I could bankrupt a few small countries. With that in mind, I add the next item to my ever growing shopping list:
- FusionHDTV5 RT Gold – While looking through some of the documentations on our new house, apparently there’s a TV antenna either in some attic or actually on top of the house, which means I could use that in conjunction with an ATSC tuner card (antennas (antennai? antennae?) don’t really care what they recieve) to at least set up a HDTV PVR system using one of my 4 computers until Tivo gets off their lazy butt and releases the Series3.
Comcast and I are mortal enemies, I hate them to my very core, and the second there’s a non-satellite alternative to them, I’m going to pressure my parents soooo hard to switch. Verizon might end up being the alternative with their FiOS TV service (which has launched in some areas but not Plano yet). My reluctance to go with a satellite provider is that they have yet to standardize on something similar to the Cablecard that would allow other devices (read: Tivo Series3) to record all the available channels from them without having to control a set-top box as an intermediary. I’ve said before (although maybe not on here) that I absolutely love Charter (our cable provider here in UP) as they’ve never been anything buy helpful. Comcast, on the other hand, uses this spawn of the devil A/B line system in both Plano and Richardson that makes it essentially impossible to connect a Tivo to cable and get the standard 2-99 channels without a cable box.
In the less full of hate world of my life, today we started moving boxes into our new house. Up until Wednesday that’s probably all I’ll be doing, and then Wednesday it’s arranging stuff once the movers have moved our furniture, Thursday Verizon is coming to connect our phone and internet service, and somewhere in there I have to get on contact with Comcast for a 3rd time to try and get cable service hooked up. Comcast, take note: infuriating someone who already can’t stand you isn’t the best way to gain new customers. (And this paragraph was supposed to be hate-less, oh well…)