Automation Adventures

Think Secret has an interesting article on Apple’s road to a Media Center.
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0511macmini2.html

Videora has created this tutorial on how to convert DVDs or standard videos to the iPod format. They use DVD Decrypter to import the DVD and their own Videora Converter to convert the video file to iPod format.
The iLounge forum has two discussions/tutorials, one for Windows, one for Mac users.
Oh, by the way, Videora also [...]

James Poniewozik has an interesting article about an alternative pricing structure: how about paying a premium to watch the show before anybody else? Pay twice the price to see the show one day before the show airs on regular TV.
This is very similar to ordering PPV movies: you’ll see it before anyone sees on the [...]

I should get started earlier on Mondays… Several sources have reported that TiVo is going to support transfers to video iPods and Sony PSP’s. A beta is available starting today, and a general release is scheduled for early next year.
The downside is that the transfer process is far from fast - apparently TiVo suggests syncing [...]

With the holiday season just around the corner, Apple is set to introduce three new iPod models, according to this presentation.
(In case you didn’t notice, that’s Saturday Night Live footage. It may not be entirely correct… thanks to iLounge for this reference).