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TiVo Plans More Functionality Reductions

Posted by michael on from the knuckling-under dept.

TiVo has been in the news recently with a couple of plans to make their service less useful than it could be: first, TiVos will now auto-delete pay-per-view and video-on-demand movies, and second, TiVo is making sure that you can't use a TiVo to view NFL games outside the specified market area. TiVo's lawyer explains.

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  1. Stupid. by Heem · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I always thought the idea of tivo was stupid anyway. I mean, why should I pay someone a service charge to allow me to "record" the programming that I already pay my cable company for. I can do that, even with this old device called a "VCR". Sure digital is much cooler, but there is no need for any service to have to interact with it. I say screw tivo and it's brethren. Build your own system.

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  2. Re:PPV by Quarters · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Exactly. For everyone who doesn't understand this I have a simple experiment for them to try: *Go to your favorite video store.
    *Rent a newly released title.
    *Keep it forever.
    *Explain how you can be righteously indignant about that, but feel that PPV movies are somehow Pay-Per-I-Get-To-Keep-It-Indefinately because you say so.