Major New TiVo Service Offerings

Jeff The Riffer writes "At the Consumer Electronics Show today, Mike Ramsay of TiVo announced three major new product offerings to come in the next year. First off there's the DVD Recorders, HD DVR, and Home Networked Enabled Products. TiVo/DVD Recorder boxes have been out for a bit now but looks like the offerings will continue and there's going to be new units by Pioneer. Second we have TivoToGo, where TiVo users with Home Media Option will be able to transfer files off their TiVo onto their PC and either play them locally or burn them to DVD. And finally there's XM Radio for TiVo."

Comments

Just What I Need

[dcw3]

Now I can spend more hours sitting on my ass drinking coffee (gotta watch out for that Type-2 diabetes ya know), watching the Simpsons over wireless.

Re:I may be ignorant

[davejenkins]

Is there a Tivo like device for normal FM or AM radio? I enjoy a few programmes on radio but not too many, and it would be a benefit to record these simply.

Yes. It`s called a "cassette tape recorder", and records the analog signals on small plastic "cassettes" that can be stored, transferred, or "dubbed" onto other cassettes.

Many units are integrated-- both radio and cassette "deck" into a single unit-- often refered to as a "boombox", for unkown reasons.

Another TiVo service offering...

[rkischuk]

......suing your competition into oblivion using moronically awarded patents

Re:It's very simple. Time IS money.

[Didion Sprague]

My god. This may be the first pragmatic post I've read on Slashdot in months.

Right on, brother.

I agree 100%. Everyone's always got the better idea -- "Hey, man, listen to this: I get the GribbleGrabble OS, add a DibbleDabbe board, and lookity-look with only some fibble fabble doobily doop API calls to the fibble fabble, I can kabble wobble the hoppity hobble."

Why bother -- when all you have to do it walk into Best Buy, walk out with a TIVO, and plug it in?

Some guy in this thread talks about spending 8 hours configuring Linux, warning that HabbleFabbleTV isn't for newbies, cuz, man, if you're a newbie, you'd be better off with a boring ol' TIVO. Got that?

Yeah, I got it. More power to ya: but come on. Time is money -- and time is time, period -- and if all you do is fiddle with yabble dibble, then fine -- rock on.

But I got a kids, the air is nice outside, the snow is pretty, and I got better things to do than wabble wibble with the uber-kibble kobble.

Re:It's very simple. Time IS money.

[aardwolf204]

I dont have kids, I'm 20, so fibble fabbling with the HabbleFabbleTV and wabble wibbling with the uber-kibble kobble is whats going to get me to where you, Mr. I've got so much damn money, what does it matter if I just walk into bestbuy and walk out with the latest consumer electronic blah blah blah.

So you design multi-gate-transistorfied mother-bored fibble fabble, nifty old dude. you keep taking the comfortable in my 40's route and I'll keep fabbling with my fobbles and maybe when all this fibbling pays off and I'm as rich as you in my 40's I'll make the same post to /. as the new generation uber-kibble kibblers discus how much uber it is to build their own penguinfied personal space craft instead of just taking Delta to Mars.

Re:HD signal

[NanoGator]

"who the hell wants or needs Oprah in high def?"

Well I had to look at SOMETHING to satisfy my craving for Mars pictures.