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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. CmdrTaco is a gay homosexual faggot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't let the fact that he married a "woman" fool you. Rob loves the manchode!

  2. Could this hinder Linux? by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: -1, Troll

    With the hampering of TiVo portable video recorders, we may soon continue to see an onslaught against any rogue or non-mainsteam products, which will of course include Linux and other non-American products.

    I can guarentee that the government would love to be able to view all of the data on our computers. This would be possible if everyone ran Windows XP because it's Desktop Sharing program could allow this, but if some people run Linux it just wouldn't be possible.

    I'd bet 10 clams that we start to see a real shake-down in the operating systems market as the government tries to get everyone to run the same software. Hey, it'd be for *there* benefit, although I would pick up a copy of XP if it were offered by the US govt for a special citizen discount of $20 or so.

    I mean, wouldn't you? But still, how will this affect Linux as a whole?

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  3. does this mean we might get TiVo's in Australia? by netnerd.caffinated · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd like to buy one so i can mod/hack it!

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  4. i find it funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    that you are such a gay homosexual faggot

  5. Re:The poor children heard urinal cake humor. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its british.

    Christ, the country that brought us the comedy gold of monty python and benny hill.

    When I watch that stuff I think the world just might be better off if we had liberated europe after a few months more of hitlers V2 rockets pummeling their snaggly-toothed pip pip dunny asses.

  6. $0.02 by spamania · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know this is a troll, but after seeing so many stories on TIVO on /., I feel compelled to gripe:

    <soapbox>

    TIVO is not "News for Nerds"; it is "News for the Terminally Couch-Ridden". And TIVO certainly does not constitute "Stuff that Matters".

    </soapbox>

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