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The Rocky TiVo-DirecTV Relationship

Posted by timothy on from the after-that-she-hardly-spoke-to-me dept.

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."

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  1. Foxblocking Tivo? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny

    With Murdoch taking over all of Tivo, we'll need a sort of different kind of Foxblocker for this. I suggest gluing a couple of cable TV jacks to either end of a wooden spool, and inserting this in your incoming co-ax cable.

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    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  2. Re:No problem. by Gannoc · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/vccep/sponsor2.htm

    pffft. Running water. All of you people out there with your runner water are just rotting your minds and bodies. In my family, we read books and discuss philosophy while making the 3/4 mile trek to our well. We don't use running water, and we're better people for it. Don't even get me started on electicity and your demon antibiotics.

  3. Answers to Foxblocking by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where oh where is the conservative answer to this? The "RatherNot (tm)" CBS news blocker. The "Clean the Air America" radio filter. The "Ted Turnoff" CNN filter. And last but not least, the "Moving Out" web filter that blocks moveon.org.

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    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  4. Rocky & TiVo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bullwinkle: Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a TiVo out of this hat.

    Rocky: That trick never works.

    /Bullwinkle reaches in hat and pulls out MGM Lion's head.

    MGM Lion: ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!

    Bullwinkle: Oops. Guess I need a new hat.

  5. No surprise by sunderland56 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'd have loved to be there during the meetings... one megalomaniac headstrong Brit and one megalomaniac headstrong Scot, in a room together, both thinking they're God. Wonderful. Odds on those two agreeing is so close to zero nobody's going to give you odds.

    I get DirecTV HD, but there's no way I'm spending one dime on anything so close to bankruptcy as Tivo.

  6. I can't wait for the new formats! by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm glad to see I'm not the only excited about this upcoming switch! I mean, sure,
    Ku band, QPSK and MPEG-2 are alright. But
    Ka band, 8PSK and MPEG-4 are clearly going to blow them all away! (At least until Ko Band, ¥PSK and MPEG-7 come out...)