TiVo Basic

Keith Russell writes "TiVo has announced a new TiVo Basic service. ( Press release here, CNet story here) The Basic service only offers a 3-day program grid, and doesn't include title searches, season passes, or wish lists. There's no subscription fees for Basic, however, and it can be upgraded to a full-on Series 2 unit by the usual payment options ($12.95/mo. or $299 lifetime). The first product to include it is a Toshiba DVD player with an 80 GB hard drive and progressive-scan output of both DVD and Tivo content."

Comments

Why software should not be free

[Anonymous Coward]

The existence of software inevitably raises the question of how decisions about its use should be made. For example, suppose one individual who has a copy of a program meets another who would like a copy. It is possible for them to copy the program; who should decide whether this is done? The individuals involved? Or another party, called the "owner"?

Software developers typically consider these questions on the assumption that the criterion for the answer is to maximize developers' profits. The political power of business has led to the government adoption of both this criterion and the answer proposed by the developers: that the program has an owner, typically a corporation associated with its development.

My conclusion is that programmers do not have the duty to encourage others to share, redistribute, study and improve the software we write: in other words, to write "closed source" software.

--Metrollica

Troll 104 of 210 from the annals of the Troll Library .

Re:Why software should not be free

[Anonymous Coward]

Metrollica! Your scrotum hums the promise of power! Keep trollin' baby!

-The Trolls

Who needs Tivo in Canada?

[dachang]

I am recording programs on slices of good Canadian bacon.