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."

Comments

Meanwhile

[sheepab]

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....

Non-service PVRs?

[autopr0n]

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.

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 :P)

Boring

[uradu]

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.