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Tivo Signs Deal With Comcast
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.
Uhm, don't I already get video clips like that in the existing Comcast menu? What are they going to do? Try and sell me TiVo through that? I'm not
their boxes. not boxen.
Box(es) is perfect English.
"You sound like a damn fool..."
As in, "They're boxes, not boxen."
'Their' doesn't parse, since it wasn't used in the original sentence.
But yeah, Cthulhu forbid that anyone should have any fun with the language! Anyone who can't figure out 'boxen' probably shouldn't be reading Slashdot; anyone whose undies twist up when they see the word used probably shouldn't be, either.