Some boffin over at Rice University has decided that five years from now, the capacity of DVRs will be such that we’ll be able to record HD video from ten channels at once, and keep it going for two weeks straight. That’s all fine and dandy, but what the professor has failed to take into account […]

Some boffin over at Rice University has decided that five years from now, the capacity of DVRs will be such that we’ll be able to record HD video from ten channels at once, and keep it going for two weeks straight.

That’s all fine and dandy, but what the professor has failed to consider is that channel-based TV is on its way out even now, and the popularization of DVRs is symptomatic of consumer dissatisfaction with that system. Customers aren’t going to want to spend $500 to upgrade to another version of the same thing when the next generation — on demand TV — is staring them in the face right now in 2008. And in 2013? Please, do you really think they’ll even want a DVR when they’ve a hoverboard?

DVR Capacity Going to Skyrocket? [G4TV]

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For Help-Key this week (now on Thursday’s, just like LOST), I’d planned to show you how to Jailbreak a 16GB iPod Touch, the one thing the automatic Jailbreaking apps can’t do yet, but I ended up bricking mine. Fortunately, I found a video that details exactly how to do it, and it seems to work […]

For Help-Key this week (now on Thursday’s, just like LOST), I’d planned to show you how to Jailbreak a 16GB iPod Touch, the one thing the automatic Jailbreaking apps can’t do yet, but I ended up bricking mine. Fortunately, I found a video that details exactly how to do it, and it seems to work fine. While I continue to try to reset mine to factory condition, please enjoy the above video with a few tips from me after the jump.

You’ll need to have your iPod in Jailbroken 1.1.2 mode, which you can learn how to do here.

Make sure you’ve got your iPod Touch plugged into a USB port and iTunes is disabled. This is where I failed, my battery died mid-way through the process. Don’t be like me, I’m not a roll model.

Also, make sure you’ve got a reliable internet connection. The downloads can take awhile, but the faster and more noise-free your connections are, the easier this will be.

It helps if you have a cold beer handy.

I’m going to try again, I’ll report back when it’s done.

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