Comments on: TiVo Subscriber Numbers Keep Tanking

By: TiVo

TiVo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:37:20 +0000

[...] cable companies offer their own version of DVR, but TiVo still stands out by brand-recognition, even if the number of subscribers fell during 2008. This may have to do with the proliferation of digital media online, but TiVo keeps on trucking [...]

By: Set-Top Boxes Galore! - MRQE Guide to the Digital Living Room

Set-Top Boxes Galore! - MRQE Guide to the Digital Living Room — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:42:01 +0000

By: Can Comcast Save TiVo? « NewTeeVee

Can Comcast Save TiVo? « NewTeeVee — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:25:16 +0000

[...] the case, but the fact is that TiVo needs this deal more than Comcast does. TiVo has been steadily losing subscribers; it reported a 163,000 drop in the number of subscribers for the quarter ended Oct. 31, 2008, to [...]

By: WebbAlert - December 11, 2008 | TechTV Update

WebbAlert - December 11, 2008 | TechTV Update — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:03:34 +0000

[...] fast-forward to see if the new service helps TiVo win back subscribers, boosts the company’s falling revenue and explains what the hell that smoke monster really [...]

By: Gifts for the (New) TV Lovers in Your Life « NewTeeVee

Gifts for the (New) TV Lovers in Your Life « NewTeeVee — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:30:23 +0000

[...] HD XL: I know TiVo’s subscriber numbers are tanking, but I still love my TiVo DVR. My trusty old Series 2 TiVo is incompatible with my new HDTV, so [...]

By: TiVo Revs Up Spam on its Machines, Keeps Driving the Nails in Its Own Coffin — james poling

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:50:08 +0000

[...] with TiVo hemorrhaging subscribers like they had the plague, you’d think they would be a little more concerned with their [...]

By: TiVo Spam Machine Revs Engines

TiVo Spam Machine Revs Engines — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:48:21 +0000

[...] get the need to increase revenue through advertising, however TiVo’s losing subscribers and should proceed cautiously in the ways (and frequency) that they spam us. After all, their [...]

By: rob friedman

rob friedman — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:15:46 +0000

Why pay extra for a TiVo? Well your not really paying extra and if you are it's something you're using. The $12-20/month you spend on that DVR from them adds up. Cable card rental is only ~$2/month. $300/onetime lifetime TiVo program guide fee, which I have a problem paying for, but do so because TiVo does rock. No sense in paying the monthly, it's outrageous. $200/onetime cost to purchase a refurb TiVo HD, which will soon support Netflix streaming from your unlimited account.

TiVo maybe a closed system, but it's still more open and feature rich than anything you get from the satellite, cable companies.

Imagine all the time you will save being able to skip forward and backwards, not old-school fast-forward/rewind. Actually being able to skip whole commercials with a single button press. Why pay extra?

By: zbeast

zbeast — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:39:34 +0000

You really don’t need a tivo anymore you can get a dvr from your cable tv provider. So why pay the extra for a tivo.
Also remember if you get your tv via an Antenna all your old tivos will be useless. So even more people will be dropping tivo.
Streaming video services, Netflix, torrents all of these kind of cut out the usefulness of tivo.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:40:37 +0000

Of course not all TiVo subs are created equal. Most of those defections are DirecTV subscribers – hardware that hasn’t been produced, sold, or marketed in a few years. And it probably won’t be another year until new DirecTV+TiVo hardware is available. Long term, the cable and satellite cos still have a lock on this industry.