Archive for the ‘Fed-Ex Alert’ Category

[UPDATED] Firstly an apology.  You’ve just read a cheap and possibly misleading post title but at least I’ve got your attention.  Quite possibly the Incomplete Gamer has also been flagged by the Federal authorities, been noticed by the Gun Owners of America, and been listed on the Guns and Ammo links page.  What can I say.  We need the traffic.

Nor should this post technically be listed as a Fed-Ex Alert.  Not unless we get in our time machine and travel back to 1997; November to be precise, for the launch of the Pentax SMCP-FA 50mm f/1.4 AF. The lens is in-coming, however, in the sense that we’ve ordered a new copy of the said lens and with a bit of luck the parcel might even arrive tomorrow.

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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Tivo is readying to launch in Oz with a keenly-priced subscription deal. How keenly priced? How does free sound? Sure, there’s no such thing as a free HD PVR, and the price of the recorder is likely to be a little higher than it might have been, had the Tivo/Channel Seven/Unwired consortium been able to sign you up to an on-going monthly subscription to access the Electronic Program Guide.

Now, the epg is the life blood of the Tivo (and any other DVR for that matter). Without it, it’s only slightly more useful than a doorstop. Sure, you’ll have great picture quality, but you’ll be managing your recordings as effectively as your old VCR could manage, which is to say not at all. The epg was something any Tivo buyer would have had to pony up for no matter how reluctantly. Without it, the whole purchase would be a little pointless. Yet it was always going to be a hard sell. Sure Foxtel charge an on-going subscription, but you do however get additional programming above and beyond the offerings of the free to air broadcasters.

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