[extropy-chat] Self-Enhncmnt: data acquisition at high speed

[Emlyn O'regan]

>    I got a TiVo recently and, although it doesn't really have 
> time compression
>  natively (that is, it can't play back sound while playing 
> faster as some
> other models of Digital Video Recorders do,) you can set it 
> at 3x playback
> speed and the closed captioning still works.  You can 
> compress your viewing
> time significantly for many types of programs, and not miss 
> much.  A wonderful
> feature--if only it could be applied to the usual business meeting.
> 
> -- 
>   Alan Eliasen                 | "You cannot reason a person out of a
>   eliasen at mindspring.com       |  position he did not reason himself
>   http://futureboy.homeip.net/ |  into in the first place."

Business meetings could do with other features. The ability to edit out
chosen speakers (like machines that edit out the ads), and a skip forward
button where you could just ignore 10 minutes in one button press. Bloody
meetings!

Emlyn