Show #68
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News
- Suzy's back
Couchville.com is going away - The company that ran the site also runs SnapStream and their very profitable product SnapStream Enterprise
- iPhone / iPod Sync with SnapStream's Beyond TV v4.7
- No Subscription Fees. Ever.
- Skip commercials and other parts of TV shows (ReplayTV)
- Search for shows on actor, director, or title
- Burn DVDs of your TV recordings*
- New! Automatically sync recordings to iPod, iPhone or Apple TV*
- Intelligent Program Guide resolves conflicts
- Record HDTV from free, over-the-air or Clear QAM digital TV signals
- What other DVRs are out there?
- We've all heard of TiVo
- Costs?
- Pros
- Cons
- Scientific Atlanta (Time Warner / Comcast)
- Cost
- Pros
- Cons
- A side note: Comcast customers could be seeing the Tivo interface soon. The TiVo interface has already been rolled out to some Comcast customers in the Northeast markets.
- We've all heard of TiVo
- [Derek] What about TV and Movies OnDemand
- Apple TV / iTunes
- Costs?
- Pros
- Cons
- Netflix
- Costs?
- Monthly Fee
- 1 dvd @ home | 2 max/mo | 2 hrs/mo | $4.99
- 1 dvd @ home | Unlimited Movies / Hours | $8.99
- 2 dvd @ home | Unlimited Movies / Hours | $13.99
- 3 dvd @ home | Unlimited Movies / Hours | $17.99
- 4 2
- Pros
- Cons
- Costs?
- Joost
- Costs?
- FREE
- Pros
- Lots of content to choose from
- The library continues to grow
- Even though there are commercials, they are short and sweet (at most 20 seconds) and only show between programming
- Cons
- Sometimes the quality is degraded due to the peer-to-peer nature of the system
- Costs?
- Apple TV / iTunes
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Courseware
- The MIT Open Courseware program was released in October 2002 and as of 2007 is one of the largest open course inititives put on by any university. Some of the information is nothing more than reading lists and discussion topics, but several offer audio/video lectures, lecture notes, homework problems and exams (with solutions), and some of them even offer interactive web demonstrations via Java applications. While this Open Courseware does not offer degrees, and may not reflect the entire content of a course. However, getting access to some of MIT's classes and materials free of charge is an awesome exercise in the concept of open knowledge. Several people have mentioned that they use the MIT Open Courseware program as a method of refreshing knowledge of classes they took long ago or as a way to update themselves on the fresh ideas that have come about since their time in college.
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- Engineering Systems Division
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- Literature
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- Physics
- Political Science
- Science, Technology, and Society
- Sloan School of Management
- Special Programs
- Urban Studies and Planning
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Writing and Humanistic Studies
- Download Complete Lectures from some of the United State's best universities, some in audio format others in video format. All for free
- Duke
- MIT (Part of the OpenCourseWare Inititive mentioned above)
- 117 Brain & Cognitive Science
- 103 Physics Lectures
- UC Berkley
- Yale
- Business & Management
- Law
- Abilene Christian University
- 186 Theological Lectures
- 186 Theological Lectures
- The MIT Open Courseware program was released in October 2002 and as of 2007 is one of the largest open course inititives put on by any university. Some of the information is nothing more than reading lists and discussion topics, but several offer audio/video lectures, lecture notes, homework problems and exams (with solutions), and some of them even offer interactive web demonstrations via Java applications. While this Open Courseware does not offer degrees, and may not reflect the entire content of a course. However, getting access to some of MIT's classes and materials free of charge is an awesome exercise in the concept of open knowledge. Several people have mentioned that they use the MIT Open Courseware program as a method of refreshing knowledge of classes they took long ago or as a way to update themselves on the fresh ideas that have come about since their time in college.
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