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Tivo Signs Deal With Comcast

Posted by Zonk on from the stick-around,-why-don't-you? dept.

Chappy01 writes "TiVo has inked a long-term deal with Comcast, America's largest cable television operator, to develop a version of the TiVo service that will be offered to Comcast's DVR subscribers. The deal calls for TiVo to adapt its software to work on Comcast's existing DVR platform, and it allows TiVo to extend to Comcast subscribers the advertising it sells in the form of interactive video clips that automatically appear in the TiVo menu." From the article: "The move will increase TiVo's presence in American homes as it faces competition from generic DVRs offered directly by leading cable companies. Comcast Corp. expects to begin marketing the new DVRs, which will carry the TiVo brand, by mid- to late 2006." News also available from MSNBC and the Official Tivo Site.

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  1. Re:Phone line needed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I can't have my boxen, where will I keep my virii?

  2. Re:Phone line needed? by technomancerX · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Actually, assuming you have digital cable your Comcast system shouldn't need a phone line either. They haven't informed most of their customers of this, but Comcast's cable boxes no longer use the phone to call home, communication goes over the cable line.

    The last time we had the Comcast service tech at our place the guy actually told us this and we unplugged all the phone lines. Everything still works fine.

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    .technomancer
  3. Annoying auto-launch audio ads at the Forbes site by Harodotus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one who gets these annoying "Forbes attache.com audio ads auto-executing when I try to RTFA?

    Major websites and businesses should never do these kinds of experiance ruining advertisments. I might have considered using getting some of my business news from forbes.com, but not now that they've gone and annoyed me.

    (One of my little dirty secrets is that I tend to browse Slashdot using IE (generally not having spyware problems), if it turns out that these ads don't happen using Firefox, I await my inevitible egging.)

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    Its not users who are broken, it's systems not taking account their likely behaviour and fixing it technically.
  4. Re:Phone line needed? by Trigun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds like you need a kick in the boxen.

    Let the h4X0rs have their word, it makes it easy to filter resumes.