Comments on: TiVo Finally Wakes Up, And Offers Worthy Upgrades

By: TiVo update adds progressive downloads, multi-room viewing, and TiVoToGo - Poor Tag

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:53:17 +0000

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By: TVHarmony » HDTiVo Rocks!

TVHarmony » HDTiVo Rocks! — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:46:06 +0000

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By: I Love Tivo: It's Still Not a Good Business

I Love Tivo: It's Still Not a Good Business — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:37:35 +0000

[...] do not have the sharp critical eye Om has. Yesterday NewTeeVee ran an interesting article about updates to Tivo that Tivo should’ve made a year ago. Bu when you see ridiculous stuff like: “Next, [...]

By: Brainwave

Brainwave — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:28:11 +0000

I'm a huge fan of TiVo and it's great to see that they're fighting back the cable companies with new hardware options. The place where they've really been lacking, however, is in software innovation - at least that I'm aware of. They should be taking greater advantage of their STB as a platform for creative applications. How great would it be if they opened up the box for the developer community to create apps for the device. Seems that new, creative apps could help drive additional demand, and really differentiate their offering from their competitors.

I posted a suggestion on my blog today for how broadcasters and record labels could make it easier for people to get music featured in tv shows and on commercials - and maybe start to get a little better foothold in the music download business outside of iTunes.

Here's the link

This is a space where TiVo's got game - with their system (software and big hard drives), they could bring something pretty innovative to the table.

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:08:11 +0000

These moves are nice, but I think it is too little too late. Expansion should have been available a LONG time ago (and it was, from hackers), and the other features were already available in S2 boxes.

That Tivo Subscriber graph is depressing. If anything, it shows the death grip that cable/sat providers have on the set-top space.

I was in the same boat as quirk until the horrible, horrible, DirecTV HR-20 HD box finally drove me to cable and a new Tivo HD. Hopefully, this new price point will help them grab new subs...

By: TiVo update adds progressive downloads, multi-room viewing, and TiVoToGo | last100

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:08:40 +0000

[...] NewTeeVee notes, this puts UnBox on TiVo in much more direct competition with the newly launched set-top box movie [...]

By: Bill G

Bill G — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:28 +0000

These changes are chair rearrangement on the Titanic, nice for a small segment of techie, specialized users only.

TiVo’s future is all in its IP, selling boxes for them is a dying business.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007/08/30/net-new-tivo-subscribers-2001-2007/

Winning the Echostar patent lawsuit would likely be helpful, as would a successful launch of TiVo software on Comcast boxes.

By: quirk

quirk — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:01:45 +0000

I have the Direct TV TiVo leftover from two years ago when those companies parted ways. I won’t leave Direct TV because they do so many things right, but I won’t get their new PVR box because I’ve heard terrible things about it. So there is no way to have both now without using an older TiVo box. It hurts me.