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The Rocky TiVo-DirecTV Relationship
Thomas Hawk writes "Phillip Swann's TV Predictions is out this morning alleging that before dumping their TiVo stock last year, Rupert Murdoch's DirecTV had made a pass at buying a controlling stake in TiVo. According to Swann, 'TiVo's top management did not like Murdoch's offer,' and Swann alleges that this is why you had a fallout between the two companies. As an interesting aside, Rob Pegoraro over at the Washington Post was out yesterday warning people to not buy an HDTV TiVo, as DirecTV will be changing their high-def signal later this year and that if you bought the HDTV TiVo that you might not be able to watch network TV in high def. As an owner of one of those expensive high-def DirecTV TiVos, I sure hope this isn't the case."
unless there is a widespread cry. Since his neo-con bent makes much of what he does profit-only motivated, biased and unfair, your best bet will be to get all other similarly equiped people together and scream your heads off that you will leave DirecTV entirely if they don't foot the bill for any tech changes that may occur on this front.
Even then, I think you have an uphill battle and will pay something, somewhere, to maintain your equipment. It may even be under the guise of providing you with "better" service/quality.
Don't say you haven't been warned.
Stop watching TV.
It's not like there is a single piece of value from it. You're just spending $n/month to waste time.
This is not the greatest