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TiVo, PVRs Not Making A Splash

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-perspective dept.

Sudderth writes "Too expensive? Too complicated? Lack of support from the TV industry (which depends on the commercials that TiVo users fast-forward through)? Newsweek has an excellent article on why personal video recorders like TiVo and ReplayTV, which have been embraced by tech-heads, are being ignored by almost everyone else."

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  1. A/C? by eli173 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "You might have an income of $25,000, but you'd rather have a better TV than an A/C that works."

    Not in Texas, you wouldn't.

  2. Hand me a torch... by CyberGarp · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I liked the quote:
    They can either help now, and begin to work with various groups, or they can be pushed off a burning platform later.


    So inspiration I'm getting my torches ready for the bonfire party with the RIAA. May need some holy water and stakes while I'm at it, I hear they're undead!
    --

    I used to wonder what was so holy about a silent night, now I have a child.
  3. Joke from Friends by SiliconEntity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    TiVo continues to make some inroads into popular culture. On the Friends rerun last night, Rachel is afraid to tell her father that she is pregnant. She starts out bravely but then chickens out: "I got... Tivo." Her father: "Tivo?! What's Tivo?" Phoebe helps out: "It's slang for 'pregnant'."