about the rat shack gold cables- I've had a couple of pairs of them floating between my home studio and my home theater for a few years now, and for the money the sound quality from them is fine. As has been mentioned in the thread before, if you're an expensive cables kind of person, you'll...
buying both, keeping both. resoning is that i want to have all of the extras, and I like having a copy of the theatrical release just in case . . . . of . . . . .uh . . . . .something . . . . fine, i guess it's just 'cause i'm an obsessive completist. there. happy now?? :D
but both types are just as easily upgraded in terms of HD capacity. My 30-hour Directv tivo has had 120 hours of capacity since about 20 minutes after unpacking it. i had the ability to digitally capture footage from the tivo in about an hour more. i still buy lots of TV on dvd. maybe i'm...
i've got the current slightly crappy version. it's not horrible, but it's not great, either- it's watchable. I'd say keep the one you've got, 'cause I haven't heard anything anywhere about a new version coming out. If one does come out down the road, you can always sell your current copy.
one thing most people haven't mentioned- David pogue just wrote a column about PVR's in one of last week's NYTimes. you have to register to read it online, but registration is free. Anyway, one thing he mentioned that I haven't seen here is the fact that Tivo's software for browsing mp3's and...
well, it's not EXACTLY the same kind of thing you're talking about, since it's not a purely natural setting, but i really love some of the shots and settings in Le Mans. Great footage of the cars tearing around the French countryside. no dialog for the first half hour. that's some nice...