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I spent a bit of my Labor Day weekend transferring oodles of video from DV tape to hard disk and buring DVDs for friends and family. This entails a lot of thumb-twiddling (encoding and transfering gigabyte DV files is still rather slow) and during one of those long transfers I looked into playing tivo recorded video on my Ubuntu laptop. On windows - it is a piece of piss - you just download Tivo desktop and (assuming you have an MPEG player) you're done. On Linux I only found a couple of threads and basically the process is pretty sucky and the video conversion tools seem very rudimentary.
The current DRM licensing mess only hurts consumers - it means if I want to play what I want (and what I am legally licensed to use), where I want and on any device I want I really have to jump through some hoops.
Then I saw this from The Beeb - I'm not sure if Sandisk are i) utterly clueless; or ii) taking a moral stand; iii) looking for some free publicity for their new players. I'd bet i) shortly followed by iii).
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