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FWIW, I'd recommend not buying from Slingbox. I had one that worked pretty well until last April and then the control to my TiVo (or any other tuner) became inoperable. I looked on the Sling Community sites and it was a rampant problem. The solution was to send back the unit if under warranty or buy a new one. Instead I bought a Sony TV Anywhere. It's much better and it even ports video over to my Playstation Portable.<br><br>Also, I'm not a big fan of Dish or non-TiVo DVRs. Directv and TiVo are working together on HD DVR and when available that's when I'll switch full force over to HD. Until then I'll limp along with my tube TVs and the one 15.6 inch HD TV (smallest I could find at Costco) that I bought just to test out the HD waters.<br><br>DIRECTV and TiVo to Launch New HD DIRECTV DVR with TiVo Service:<br>http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=P4900010<br><br>As for the spamming...it makes sense to me. TiVo should charge advertisers a million dollars for downloading ads into the DVR 'playlist'.<br><br>-Scott<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: deco@moscow.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:48:01 -0800<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] New spamming method?<br><br>
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<div><font size="2">Interesting. What's next? Interweaving messages in
regular broadcasts over the regular cable/satellite programming?</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Dish Network and Direct TV distributors leave bout 100 taped
messages on my telephone per month, some of them quite deceptive.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Perhaps with a new administration, and after some very
pressing problems are attacked, some attention could be focused
on eliminating and/or rigorously controlling spam of various types. I
have written to our two senators about this and related internet security
problems several times. Each time I get the same form letter back which
says they are working on the problem. I've seen no real evidence of
that, however.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">W.</font></div>
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<a title="moscowsam@verizon.net" href="mailto:moscowsam@verizon.net">Sam
Scripter</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:56
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] New spamming
method?</div>
<div><br></div><font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">NEW SPAMMING METHOD
[NOT ON THE INTERNET]?<br><br>I experienced today, what seems to be a method
of spamming of<br>a new and different kind. I've never heard about this
technique <br>before. I'm wondering if any of you have, and whether you can
<br>shed any light on it?<br><br>I'm a subscriber to Dish Network. I
have a Dish Network receiver<br>with a DVR. Today I found a new recording that
I did not schedule <br>and that I did not initiate. E.g., It appeared there
from action other <br>than mine.<br><br>The recording is only 4 minutes
long. It's title is this:<br><br> "Slingbox-Watch your
TV/DVR anywhere in the world"<br><br>What's next in this technological
world? Now unsolicited<br>recordings proposing purchase of products or
services can<br>be left on one's receiver with DVR without one knowing
it<br>in advance!<br><br>Technically, Dish Network may argue that I agreed to
it by agreeing<br>to receive email announcements from them. I
assumed that would be<br>via the internet, not by the company placing
recordings on my VCR.<br><br>This is aggressive entrepreneurship beyond good
taste. <br><br>Sam Scripter<br></font></font>
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