So, today was the Sydney version of "Lotusphere Comes To You" - what we here in Australia get because not everyone can afford to fly half-way around the world to experience the wonders of Lotusphere in person. Whilst it didn't quite carry the same "buzz" that was exuded during the sessions in Orlando (I guess the element of surprise was out the window as most people knew about any announcements beforehand), but the information was well presented, and the message strong.
Before I get too carried away, I do a couple of different roles here and there depending on what work I'm doing, but today's event was one that I attended as a "techo" rather than a business analyst or project manager.
Archive for March of 2006
"Honey, I shrunk the Lotusphere" (Lotusphere comes to you - Sydney style)
tim rynne - March 08, 2006we finally had a look at a Tivo in action....
tim rynne - March 08, 2006
... and were suitably impressed.
I have to admit, the A.I. of the Tivo was pretty sweet - how it just went about it's business and recorded programs based on your settings... leaving them there for a couple of days and removing them if you haven't explicitly saved them - that was cool! The only problem was that as we were staying with friends, if we happened to be watching tv and the Tivo had decided to record something, we had to leave it alone.
Our Toppy is a twin tuner system so it had the upper hand on the Tivo that we saw - it allows you to record a program whilst still allowing you to browse through your available channels, it even goes as far to allow you to record 2 programs at once whilst watching a pre-recorded show. I assume there is a twin tuner Tivo available (or will be available soon) and in that case it would be awesome! There is no A.I. available with the Toppy, instead we're left to set it up as per the old-school timer settings we saw with VCRs (at least there's no "blinking clock" syndrome as it pulls the time from the digital tv!), but all the other functionality contained certainly more than makes up for the lack of A.I.
I have to admit, the A.I. of the Tivo was pretty sweet - how it just went about it's business and recorded programs based on your settings... leaving them there for a couple of days and removing them if you haven't explicitly saved them - that was cool! The only problem was that as we were staying with friends, if we happened to be watching tv and the Tivo had decided to record something, we had to leave it alone.
Our Toppy is a twin tuner system so it had the upper hand on the Tivo that we saw - it allows you to record a program whilst still allowing you to browse through your available channels, it even goes as far to allow you to record 2 programs at once whilst watching a pre-recorded show. I assume there is a twin tuner Tivo available (or will be available soon) and in that case it would be awesome! There is no A.I. available with the Toppy, instead we're left to set it up as per the old-school timer settings we saw with VCRs (at least there's no "blinking clock" syndrome as it pulls the time from the digital tv!), but all the other functionality contained certainly more than makes up for the lack of A.I.