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This type of mechanism implies that you can remove or add things while the system is powered on and running. For example, hard drives and power supplies are often candidates for this term, but more expensive servers may even have hot-swappable memory, PCI cards, and processors. Normally they come in special proprietary form factors in server machines and RAID boxes. If you've got mission-critical applications, you want y
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Hot-swappable - Diane SherwinMillions of Americans now have digital video recorders (otherwiseknown as DVRs or PVRs) thanks to TiVo, ReplayTV and cable andsatellite providers who offer PRVs in their satellite receiver boxes.Users who have PVRs are now calling the physical act of recordingshows with their hard drive recorder "TiVo-ing" even if the serviceand hardware unit they are using is not actually a TiVo. This isremnisciant of how photocopying has become "Xeroxing" to manyconsumers and many people who blow their noses think they are using aKleenex, when they are in fact most likely using a facial tissue. Asmuch as consumers with PVRs rave about being able to "TiVo" theirfavorite shows and skip the commerials, TV executives and ad agenciesare less excited. Free television content is created so that networkscan sell ads. Now that model is being challenged by the progress oftechnology but a new TV network thinks they have the answer.Ripe Entertainment is introducing a free "on-demand" cable network,called RipeTV, which will have advertising embedded into its shows.It has seven different types of advertising that will not be able tobe fast-forwarded through when recorded on a PVR. RipeTV's CEO, RyanMagnussen, calls it "TiVo-proof."New ads include a 3-D animated advertiser logo or graphic to open andclose the show, an animated logo occupying the lower third of thescreen, a "video skin" or graphic frame with the advertisers brandframed around the show, video billboards in the lower third,strategically placed spots and long-form commercials. The ads are morelike magazine advertisements, in a video magazine setting.http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0504/20.ripetv.html
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