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The Programmer Who Could Save Tivo

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the didn't-know-it-needed-saving dept.

Damon Darlin from Business 2.0 writes "We just posted a story on Arthur Van Hoff, the programming legend who now works at TiVo. He was one of the Java geniuses at Sun (has almost as many patents as Bill Joy) and started Strangeberry, which Tivo bought in January. the story tells how his Strangeberry software will be given away to developers of web content. The next generation Tivos will then be able to recognize web content and direct it to the appropriate home device. This could be the stuff that saves tivo because none of the set top boxes will have this ability.

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  1. Moderators Often Smoke Crack by tilleyrw · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...how does TiVo get saved when they're really the only viable PVR in the mass consumer market?

    How does a remark such as the above become moderated to level 5?

    The Tivo PVR is functionally equivalent to the ReplayTV PVR. Neither has outstanding functionality. (Although the easily accessible commercial skip on the Replay is very nice. You don't have to hack through configuration screens to find the option as on the Tivo.)

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  2. Are you onthe pipe with them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    "Stupid question... (Score:1) "

    I see it hasn't even been moderated.

  3. Re:Why not publish a SDK by dave420 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or, a million programmers writing competing software. If Tivo aren't paying the programmers, Tivo doesn't own anything.