By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026It's probably slow, with a confusing user interface, and it only records an ever-dwindling subset of the shows your cable company transmits. 69/ 21272 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026Notwithstanding that it's a genuinely shitty piece of technology, it's still awful that you can't buy it - the fact that you have to rent that crapgadget month after month means that you're paying for it several times over. 70/ 31472 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026But at least cable signals *have* PVRs. For the majority of video we interact with, there's no PVR - not even a shitty, broken one. You can't record your Netflix videos, your HBO Max videos, your Disney Plus videos or your Prime videos. 71/ 11257 0
JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026There was CableCARD for a while that PVR could use, but it was incredibly hard to get hardware, even though for a while it was legally mandated to be available in the US. Gone now, destroyed by these sinister cartels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARDen.wikipedia.orgCableCARD - Wikipedia 000 0
Lerrup @lerrup.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This is why I made one using mythtv on Linux and an old laptop with were throwing away 010 0
