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TiVo to Drop Lifetime Service Plan
Thomas Hawk writes "TiVo held their most recent analyst conference call today and on the call announced that they will be dropping their lifetime subscription option as well as offering three new monthly no upfront fee TiVo plans combining their box and service for one year, two year and three year commitments. Additionally they announced that their highly anticipated Series 3 HDTV standalone model with CableCARD support will not be available until after "mid year," a new retail partnership with Radio Shack and the fact that the company is in solid discussions with other cable operators for deals similar to their previously announced Comcast initiative."
Imagine what the world would be like if everyone on this planet could not watch TV/movies/internet for a year.
Would there be mass rioting? Revolution? Abundant creativity and ingenuity? People losing weight and getting active? People interacting with their neighbours? People going outside once in a while?
TiVO may have stopped their lifetime subscription, but in the long run, with all the other options out there for entertainment, it is not really a big deal.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
MythTV can't seem to figure out that it should delete old ones when the partition is full
It certainly *can* figure it out; it's *you* who can't figure out how to turn on auto-expire.
RTFM.
I almost bought a Tivo a couple years ago because the amount of time spent on commercials was obscene, but common sense took over and I instead wondered why the hell I should pay still more for TV when the programming was crap, anyway. So I instead just stopped watching TV, and I have since realized that I was addicted to effortless entertainment. Just like everyone else. I thought I was smarter/stronger/better than that. Now I really am. TV-less for two years