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Tivo 2 Features On the Horizon
Lemuel writes "Tivo has finally pre-announced its music and photo pictures for the Tivo 2. Users will be able to play MP3s and view photos that come from their computer. It will also be possible to program the Tivo via a web site. An official announcement is due in January. There will be revenue associated with these items. Only the remote programming sounds interesting to me, but I'm glad for anything that would keep Tivo afloat."
I have the freedom of recording whatever I want on my pc with my video capture card, without paying a fee, and without my viewing habits being tracked. I wonder what kind of nasty stuff they have cooked up in this Tivo 2 of theirs....
In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
Are there any good PVRs out there that you don't need to pay a monthly service fee to use? I mean, come on. TV listings are hardly worth $5/month or whatever. I can get all of that off the web for free.
:P)
I also really don't want some company (and possibly TIA in the future) sifting through my TV viewing habits.
Are there any PVR solutions out there that just let you record TV shows and watch 'em later? (being able to transfer the files to my computer would be a huge bonus as well
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I don't "pay a fee." That implies I'm getting nothing in return.
What? What language are you speaking?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc. (TIVO.O) on Thursday said its television recording system will soon be able to play digital music and show pictures stored in personal computers.
Really, linux can do that?
Data stored in file formats such as MP3 and JPEG will appear on the television that is connected to the TiVo set-top box, company Chief Executive Michael Ramsey told investors at a Credit Suisse First Boston Conference.
Kind of like on a computer monitor?
The company will likely charge an additional fee for the premium service, which will be launched in January at the Consumer Electronics Association's CES conference in Las Vegas, he said.
Loading jpegs is a "premium" service??
"There's a whole set of packages that we are doing and the main theme is around broadband and home networking. It is our next big thing," Ramsey told Reuters after the presentation.
How about dual tuners? Why do you keep dodging the fucking issue?
TiVo, whose technology allows users to save hours of TV shows onto a hard drive in a set-top box and makes suggestions for other programming choices, derives most of its revenue from subscribers' fees and licensing agreements with manufacturers.
Huh. Tivo sounds cool, whatever it is.
The new initiatives, which include a way for users to program recording times away from home through a Web site, would provide the company with additional streams of revenue.
Kind of like, if Peter Pan comes and takes me away to fight pirates, I will have an exciting and happy life.
Ramsey also reiterated TiVo's forecast that its subscribers will double to 1 million in fiscal 2004, which begins in February.
Reiterate away.
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TiVo have had years to come up with interesting new features, and this is it? They've done NOTHING remotely interesting since the original product. You can't even officially expand storage, even though that could be a huge cash cow for them. I want to buy a second unit for the entertainment room and be able to watch shows recorded on the living room unit, and vice versa, but I can't. Owning two units simply doesn't add any interesting capabilities at all. Replay offers these kinds of features, plus their monthly fee is only $10, so with two units I'd save $6 a month. I'm seriously considering selling my Series 1 SA and getting two Replay units.
> I'm glad for anything that would keep Tivo afloat.
These kinds of statements are getting so old that they start to irritate and anger. TiVo apologists are like Mac fanatics: they extoll the virtues of one closed and compulsively controlling vendor over others just because the look of their products gives them warm fuzzy feelings. TiVo is much more interested in cozying up to the entertainment industry than in pleasing its customers, and if you are willing to accept that because it will "help them survive," you're beyond help. TiVo's brown-nosing hasn't stopped Hollywood in any shape or form from slamming PVRs at every opportunity and trying every which way to influence politicians to stop this "menace." Sleeping with the enemy doesn't help you survive, it just helps them gain insight into how to beat you.