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...grew by only 6%. Viewing habits may change, but the need to advertise products remains. Thus advertisers are hoping that "one-pipe" convergence will remodel the landscape. That's when a single broadband feed into your home will hook into one device that operates your TV, PC, dvd player, dvr, games console and stereo system. The differences between a TV and a computer, and between a website and a TV channel, will then start evaporating like pixels on a dying screen. Viewers will choose whether to watch ads and which way to watch them. How will brands vie for consumers...
...Setting up the Slingbox is easy. I plugged my cable box, a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD with built-in DVR, into the Slingbox, then connected that to my TV and my home network via Ethernet. (There are many ways to do this; fortunately, Sling has many useful accessories, such as the $100 SlingLink which make it not-so-painful.) After everything was plugged in, I ran a simple software installer...
...made the mistake of trying to play an HD broadcast, and everything froze. It's a paradox, because the earliest of adopters probably already watch a lot of HDTV. To put it bluntly: if you're recording the current season of Sopranos or 24 on a high-def cable DVR, you'll have to record it simultaneously in standard definition to watch it on Sony's LocationFree TV or the snazzier Slingbox from Sling Media...
Democrats too have ideas about how to galvanize their base. "Intel and Yahoo! are introducing technology that will allow every DVR to record video from a website the way it records ESPN," says Rosenberg. He imagines a world in which Hillary Clinton would post a daily video message with an accompanying e-mail alert to the folks on Demzilla reminding them to set their TiVos. "So Hillary's now speaking to millions of people with no intermediary and no overhead." While managing Howard Dean's campaign, Joe Trippi used the 650,000 people who registered on Dean's website...
...TiVo and DVR Obsessive fans use TiVo and other such devices to examine the show in slo-mo, frame by frame. Like conspiracy buffs poring over grassy-knoll photos, they have found figures lurking in mysterious smoke and elsewhere...