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Apple to Buy TiVo?
vallette writes "Reuters is reporting that Apple may be interested in buying TiVo. Seems like a good fit to me. Both companies stock price is up on the rumor."
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And mysteriously my TiVo no longer skips those retina burning iPod commercials
Well, at least the TiVo service already somewhat goes with the current Apple naming scheme...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Great. Now my Tivo will play even fewer games.
Saw funny run-down of the Apple product cycle in someone's sig today. This cracked me up.
Let the wild speculation begin! I predict the iMovie store will play an integral part in this along with the new chip-based 3ivX encoder, and the cell processor system, and some sort of robot sent back from the future. Oh my!
I think Apple could come up with a better name than "iHome"; that is retarded in the strictest short-yellow bus sense possible. Now if you excuse me, I have to go type some things up in iWork while listening to my iPod which is powered by iTunes. iRule.
I can't wait to see what it would look like, perhaps an egg shaped object that, resembles something Mork kicked open and crawled out of!!
So if Apple buys TiVo are they then dying twice as fast or twice as slow?
Or are their deaths still interdependent?
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Tivo fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Tivo (a revision 3) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 minute show from one machine to another. 20 minutes! At home, on my MiniITX running MythTV, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Tivo, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this program transfer, the Channel Guide will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the media player software for the PC is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Tivos, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Tivo that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Tivo's faster Linux architecture. My ReplayTV with 8gigs of HD runs faster than this machine at times! From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Tivo is a superior machine.
Tivo addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Tivo over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
(Word to the mods.)
So it would be iTiVo then?
I stole this Sig
Misery Loves Company.
Wonder when Apple will pick up BSD cause that's been dying forever, oh wait.
So if Apple buys TiVo are they then dying twice as fast or twice as slow?
It'll seem faster because you can skip the commercials.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
They both love inappropriately capitalised names...
Kinda tenuous, I know, but it is late and I'm tired
Just because your paranoid doesn't really mean they aren't out to get you
Peter: "No, that says 'Audi' - the "T" is silent!"
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Why would they make a Tivo out of a cardboard box?
3) Why would it cost you $699?
The answer probably involves a sentence ending in, "you cocksmoking teabaggers," but I'm not going to go there.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
It'll be called the tPod.
...I would be psyched because it would mean tivo wins. I've never seen a BSOD in hi-def. I look forward to it.
No, Tipple.
"Dad, during the Superbowl halftime, I saw a Nipple on the Tipple!"
Table-ized A.I.
it's "sole purpose", dumb-ass.
otherwise, great post.
Buying TiVo gives them a running start. They can always call it the Apple TiVo or the Mac TiVo if they want.
or the iVo!
And there'll only be one button on the remote.
Just another "DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker" -- Zeio
it's dumbass, dumbass.
It will be called iVo
Apple would not only get the name but the familiar and excellent Tivo interface/software. ...and charge 20% more for it.
"If it's real, then it gets more interesting the closer you examine it. If it's not real, just the opposite is true." -
Slashdot: Rumors for Nerds, stuff that we have no reason to think will happen.
"and charge 20% more for it."
Hey there Mister, you missed a zero! No Tivo for you! One year!
Wow, imagine that. Nobody is 100% perfect.
Please complain about Jobs' success when you run a multinational corporation with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
That would be fine for you, but some of us have squeaky snakes.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I thought this is about business and not about preferences
fuvoo: watch something