TiVo Moves to Bypass Cable

Thomas Hawk writes "TiVo is throwing in the towel on cable. According to CEO Mike Ramsay, 'offering service through one of the primary cable platforms is not the best way to grow our business at this time, because the economics are not very attractive, instead, we have decided to embrace the PC as our friend.' This may add to the complexity of an already convoluted message that TiVo has been criticized for being unable to articulate to the masses. In the same article TiVo says it plans to introduce a new line of recorders that will accept CableCards. The company has declined to say when new machines will be introduced or how much they will cost. Most significantly, there is still no elaboration as to whether this new standalone box will be able to record cable or satellite HDTV."

Comments

Ok, this should be interesting

[ACK!!]

Will the cable companies work with Tivo to get this going or will they do what another poster said and reverse engineer.

Of course btw, to another poster it runs linux.

There is a linux port to just about everything. Hell, my toaster runs linux produces GNU/Linux toast with the faces of Stallman and Linus facing off to each other for goodness sakes.

I really do wonder though how long it will take before someone out-Tivo's Tivo.