Windows ME is designed to make the users' life easier. But in the vital area of keeping the BIOS up to date, it's making it damn near impossible. It seems the only sure way of being able to create a boot floppy in the future is to keep an ancient 286 system in a cupboard and bring it out when you need to write one. Sony to launch digital VCR Sony will launch itself against TiVo this summer when it will challenge the digital video recorder pioneer in Japan with a machine of its own. This despite the fact that Sony US is a TiVO technology licensee.
Standard quality yields ten hours' recording time.
Unlike a standard VCR, the digital variety allows users to watch recorded programmes while others are being 'taped', and even to watch an earlier part of the show that's currently being recorded. It's not cheap, but if that's the price of the most flexible off-air recording medium there is, so be it. Clip-On outside the Japanese market. Then again, it may not need to. Sony's US wing already offers a digital video recorder based on TiVo's own system.