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Can TiVo be Saved?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the people-have-been-saying-this-for-five-years dept.

ChipGuy writes "TiVo's death watch has begun. The company is having a tough time finding traction in the marketplace, as more and more competitors rush into the market, most of them deep pocketed satellite and cable companies. But is all lost? What if the company went private and became the anti-cable, letting us download, store, organize, and serve media from both cable and -- this is the important part -- the internet. Others believe that TiVo should get into the content aggregation business."

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  1. ChipGuy by kngthdn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoever this ChipGuy fellow is, he sure hates Tivo! Not only is this story a dupe, but ChipGuy submitted both of them. I wonder how many were rejected. ; )

    Here's the original.

  2. Cue the haters by jargoone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pick your poison:

    1. "My cable company's DVR works just fine, why should I pay extra for a TiVO?"
    2. "I don't watch TV, why do I want a TiVo?"
    3. "My MythTV box only took me 3 weeks to get working, and I will probably only have to mess with the guide data stream a few times a year, and the hardware only cost twice as much as a TiVo."

    We've heard them all before...

  3. This just in: Tivo passes 3 million subscribers by EulerX07 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kinda funny that I finish reading an article on news.com about them exceeding 3 million subscribers, to find out on slashdot that it's dying.

    Is it dying faster or slower then Apple and BSD?

    Disclaimer: Not a Tivo subscriber. I'd like to, but you can't get some of that in Canada.