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Tivo and Comcast - together at last?Speaking of signs of the impending apocolypse, apparently Comcast and Tivo have actually kissed and made up, and cut a deal to offer Tivo to Comcast cable customers. Of course, it's anyone's guess as to whether they'll actually market it in such a manner as to be enough to save Tivo from shuffling off into that long dark night... "Comcast will continue to market its own DVR. Most new customers now get a dual-tuner DVR, which lets viewers record two shows at once as well as high-definition television; TiVo offers such features only to DirectTV satellite customers." Maybe Tivo ought to just be licensing the interface (which is still better than anything else out there) and get over everything else....


Tivo and Comcast - together at last?Speaking of signs of the impending apocolypse, apparently Comcast and Tivo have actually kissed and made up, and cut a deal to offer Tivo to Comcast cable customers. Of course, it’s anyone’s guess as to whether they’ll actually market it in such a manner as to be enough to save Tivo from shuffling off into that long dark night… "Comcast will continue to market its own DVR. Most new customers now get a dual-tuner DVR, which lets viewers record two shows at once as well as high-definition television; TiVo offers such features only to DirectTV satellite customers." Maybe Tivo ought to just be licensing the interface (which is still better than anything else out there) and get over everything else. ...


TV Time Shifter “Reviews”PC World says "Digital video recorders gained fame with TiVo. New competitors range from rented boxes to Media Center PCs--and our TV addict tried them all." Huh? Actually, he tried a couple of them, and not very hard from the looks of it. The lineup includes a DirecTivo, a Tivo Series 2, two cable provider PVRs, a Dell-based MCE 2005 system. A paragraph or two of commentary was included for each. He also sat through a demo of Slingbox, a network connected PVR and talked about Orb. The upshot was that the DirecTivo and cable PVRs just worked, the Tivo Series 2 was easy to set up, and he had trouble making the MCE talk to his cable provider. Not...


Lack of HD & multiple tuners killing Tivo?Reuters reports on a new study that claims Tivo is rapidly losing mindshare... Brandimensions, the research firm that conducted the study, said that TiVo's standalone set-top box is failing in two areas: its inability to record two shows simultaneously and to play back shows in high-definition TV quality. "This may not sound like a big deal," wrote one TiVo user about the latter, "but after watching 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos' on HD, there is no going back." Can we have an "amen" from the congregation? Providing multiple tuners is a big deal, with networks constantly scheduling leading shows against each other. That was one of the best reasons to have a (dual tuner) DirecTivo back in the day, and I've...


Tivo — Dying young, but leaving a great-looking corpseIf there’s a tougher user interface to get right than an interface for an intelligent TV device, I don’t wanna meet it.  I was involved with a project trying to do content management on TVs back in ‘97, and the problems involved in coming up with something powerful that looks good and is as easy to use 10 feet from the TV as the TV itself are immense.  The project died (several times—there must have been a shortage of wooden stakes) for other reasons, but we never came up with anything half as good as the Tivo interface has been since day one. Matt Haughey has a great interview with Tivo’s Margret Schmidt, the person responsible for making their interface...