TiVo Plans More Functionality Reductions

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.

Comments

Irony

[Prophetic_Truth]

it's only fitting that when I clicked this article it read "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

Hmmm...

[TheSpoom]

And I'll continue to not own a TiVo and download the shows I want to watch. Damn that internet! ;^)

TiVo: Less useful everyday

[d_jedi]

(ie: parody of MSN's "More useful everyday" slogan, for the mods :-> )

New Tivo Commercial

[Braingoo]

TIVO Tv on our terms. Tivo it will let you record any show or program you wish for play back at a later date. (Un less such programs are not suposed to be aired in your location or you paid for them to be viewed only for a limited time. Or the people that made the program want to eventualy sell a realy expensive dvd boxed set in the near future or your mother who can login to your tivo and block you from recording all that nasty pron!)

Re: "cince"

[Dr. Evil]

Today, a small part of the English language died.

Re:PPV

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, your amazing skills of logic and reasoning fail to amaze me at all.

This analogy doesn't survive the laugh test. A video store rents you a movie. That is a physical copy. PPV is a broadcast copy. Keeping a rented video deprives the store of their physical posession. Recording a broadcast does no such thing.

Your analogy looks something like this:

I take a photograph of your house. I have just STOLEN YOUR F*CKING HOUSE OMG!!1!1!one!1

So next we'll see

[unsinged int]

neutered Aibos?

Re:obligatory

[Em Ellel]

and call her MythGF, cuz you certainly don't have the real thing.

"MythGF" is probably closer to truth than you think. Spending so much time trying to make MythTV do anything resembling usablity, "RealGF" is getting cranky.

Who needs a TIVO anyway?

[Capt_Troy]

I have a way around all of this. Here's what I do.

Get about 10 VHS tapes and 2 VCRs. Set the VCRs to record all of your shows. Then, when your VCRs are done recording, take the tapes out and put sticky tabs on them noting what shows are recorded on each tape. Then put the tapes in a big stack and put two new tapes in the VCRs.

Using this method I've only lost about a dozen shows due to lazyness in sticky tab notation and misplacement of tapes (and occasionally the baby will rearrange them for me).

Anyway, who needs a TIVO when you can follow these simple steps and keep your shows until the sticky tab falls off.

Re:Victimhood

[adoarns]

The whole "information wants to be free" thing has gotten insanely out of hand.

Will someone mod this motherfucker up? PLEASE?

No other person in this thread has correctly identified that

• Right And Wrong are explicitly dependent on legislative status quo,
• where potentially monetizable assets are a priori non-exclusive, the erection of artificial barriers to their easy dissemination is not only desirable but a religio-commercio-moral obligation;
• that theft ipso facto is not simply deprivation of some entity's property, but a moral failing of untouchable classes to respect the limits to all kinds of access reasonably and righteously imposed, and finally
• that since the sky is obviously falling, politically, culturally, and intellectually in this country, you better start wearing a fucking hardhat.

And oh man! in so few words! What a guy, this. A true skewerer. "This whole 'Information wants to be free' thing has gotten out of hand" in one fell swoop condemning pile upon pile of hippie thought to obvious absurdity, and then reproving us, the degenerates, for our foolishness.

Re:Victimhood

[Llama_STi]

*zing!*

Re:Irony - parent is obligatory post

[LordOfYourPants]

I consider it a coincidence, not ironic, that a more elite person replies to correct a parent poster in order to tell them that they are using the word "ironic" incorrectly.

Responding to a coincidence that responds to a post using the word "ironic" is ironic, and responding to an ironic response to a coincidence that is a response to a post using the word "ironic" is, in itself, idiotic.

Therefore I am an idiot for replying to you.

Self-awareness of idiocy therefore makes me not an idiot and the only conclusion can be that none of my parent posters exist.

Re:Who can blame TiVo?

[Cro Magnon]

Actually, the proper term for the entertainment industry is the opposite.

NAZI!!

Where's Godwin when you need him?

Re:Irony - parent is obligatory post

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Re:Victimhood

[MacGod]

[Wish I could offer you a job, but... we're not in Ohio...

FYI: Ontario!=Ohio. The original post's sig was "Anyone looking for a sysadmin in Southern Ontario", not Ohio.

I know you Yanks wish Canada was the 51st state, but that doesn't mean you can claim our provinces as your own just yet. That's reserved for Bush's second term