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An Offer Tivo Owners Can't Refuse
An anonymous reader pointed us to this little tidbit. The BBC paid Tivo (company slogan: "TV Your Way") to force owners' boxes to record some new program they wanted to push, which looks incredibly exciting. UK Tivo owners seem a little upset.
Is the only kind I would ever want, for just this reason. If you have the source code you can make sure that scummy networks, or scummy politicians can't shut you down by sending commands or "updating" the software.
I love it when all I need to do to stand up for what's right is just keep my money in my pocket.
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Really, it appears that the Tivo unit goes out of its way to NOT cause a problem. As the summary post stated, it doesn't use your own storage space, it doesn't pre-empt your own desired recordings, and it asks to change the channel if you are currently watching something.
The last one seems to be the only annoyance, if you were in the can, you may come back to find it on a new channel, but I think Tivo did a decent job of trying to make this a painless "grab" of promo items which aren't even forced on you - just automatically made available to you. The only way it really could be made any more painless is multiple channel tuners, so it could grab the show off the 'backup' no matter what you're doing in the first place.