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But then, you're not quitting TV since you need to record the show and download from the Tivo. So, no.
Well, but you CAN do over-the-air TiVo-ing. Not sure how well the basic stations come in in your area, Liese, but it's a possibility.
Also, is donwloading better than streaming, in terms of use of MB? You could buy on iTunes, but that might not be economical.
Well, my ota stations are pretty limited. I mean, I think I have the one where I get a plain blue background with the local news scrolling over it in white type. (I should possibly investigate this further. In New Mexico I was further out, and got nothing.)
And I don't have a separate Tivo. My Tivo is the Directivo, and therefore, tied to my satellite subscription.
Downloading is not better than streaming, except that if I can carry my phone to somewhere that I get free wifi, like the library or coffeshop or whatnot, I could download there and then carry it home and hook it up to the projector.
Buying on iTunes would work, I think, but a) android based, rather than apple based, and b) yeah, trying to save money, so it probably would cost more overall.
So, HP has Killed their new Touchpad and is discounting the 16 GB to $99 and the 32 GB to $149.
I wonder what OS can be hacked onto it?
Centurylink has moved from offering only a 1.6 MPS speed in my area to offer a 6-7 mps speed in my area (7 nominal, as low as 6 in practice.) That is more than fast enough for email, telephone over the net, and non-video pages (I think). True? But if I want to watch youtube, or want to disconnect my cable and start doing TV and movies over the internet with netflix and hulu and such, I suspect it will be a bit slow with skips and pauses . True?
DCJ, I'm on HP's website right now trying to buy a TouchPad, and their site is slow as molasses and keeps telling me there's no memory. They must be getting hammered.
Typo, I tried CenturyLink's internet and found it was noticeably slower than my Comcast connection. FWIW
It would be very easy to run Android on it. Both are based on Linux and the Linux bits are open source.
I am very sad about the death of webOS.
So if you buy one of those, you have to put an OS on it?
It comes with an os, webOS [link] , but it's not an OS that's ever likely to have many apps.
There's talk that some magic-wielding folk are creating an Android Honeycomb for use on it.
I thought HP was stopping the HW, not the software, And that they were going to try and get someone else to pick up the hardware slack.