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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. Re:don't have TiVo... Yet by Issue9mm · · Score: 5, Informative

    It probably isn't being modded up because a Tivo/NetFlix coop is already in the works.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5915470/site/newswee k/

    -9mm-

  2. Re:don't have TiVo... Yet by JoeD · · Score: 4, Informative

    But here's the question... how the hell does a Tivo box that's sitting on a shelf above the satellite reciever change the channel as needed? What kind of weird wiring hack did you have to do to get that to work?

    The same way a Tivo sitting on the shelf above the cable box changes channels - there's a little IR emitter that you position in front of the box, and the Tivo sends the appropriate commands to change the channel.

    With some model satellite receivers (DirecTV only, I think), the serial port on the back of the Tivo hooks up to the serial port on the back of the receiver and changes channels that way.