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TiVo User's Fears Explored

Posted by Zonk on from the give-me-my-control dept.

elrous0 writes "In spite of TiVo's continuing insistence that recent appearances of 'red flag' recordings are mere "glitches," the AP is reporting that customers are beginning to get nervous about the new content-blocking feature added in a recent TiVo upgrade. The story quotes Matt Haughey, of PVRblog.com, as saying 'TiVo would be of limited utility in the future if the studios were allowed to do this with regular broadcast content ... This is like cell-phone jammers. What if you couldn't talk on your cell phone? If customers can't do something with their TiVo that they could in the past, they will stop using it.'" We've touched on this topic in the past.

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  1. Re:So what's new now? by MarkGriz · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What's going to be different between this discussion and the linked, previous, Slashdot discussion?"

    Some fancy CSS

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  2. Screw Tivo use Usenet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    subject says it all

  3. Misspelling by SheeEttin · · Score: 5, Funny

    We've touched on this topic in the past.

    They misspelled "dupe".