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TiVo switches off UK sales

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the boop-boop-ding dept.

SmackCrackAndPot writes "On the TiVo Community forum, there is an announcement that TiVo will be switching off UK sales. This was previously reported in November at BizTech Library. It's probably not too surprising, after the BBC spammed TiVo owners with a new comedy show."

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  1. couldnt delete? by Pharmboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the story of the spamming refered to some people claiming they could not delete the "post watershed" program (whatever the hell that is).

    I would like any follow ups anyone has on that point. did they have to send a signal to allow deleting or what?

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  2. Re:They did NOT spam by phrogeeb · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This is absolutely a case of spamming.

    I consider someone buying a "paid placement" on a search engine to be spam, and that's a FREE service. Not something that people are paying money for, billed as a way to "cut around commercials, watch only the content they want to see, when they want to see it", etc.

    Television channels are generally supported by subscription revenue, ad placement, selling marketing data, etc. However, that doesn't mean that when MTV changes it's format to a {5 minutes of programming : 5 minutes of advertisement} format that it's an acceptible usage of their service.

    This sort of thing is called "selling out", and it's what our government has done over and over to pro-Spam lobbyists and (in many places, still) pro-Telemarketer lobbyists.

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  3. Oh, Tivo smells like roses by dachshund · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What a bunch of crap. TiVo units have a certain amount of memory set aside for "enhanced content" (that means infomercials)

    Yeah, I especially loved it when they "set that memory aside"-- out of my perfectly good, usable recording space-- when they kindly released their new OS... (by automatically dumping it onto my system in the dead of night.)

  4. Re:Oh, come on. by timeOday · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It uses space set asside by the OS so it doesn't even lower your capacity*.
    I cannot for the life of me understand how TiVo owners can buy into that line. I am never going to buy a tivo if they don't even admit my ownership over the hardware.

    Their spamming and subscription requirements ARE costing them customers.