I've researched this issue and the headline of the article is correct. TiVo is moving to bypass cable but not by throwing the whole system away and not allowing you to record cable BUT by integrating a cable card into a standalone TiVo box. This eliminates the need for a cable decoder. Their intent is to differentiate themselves further from the cheap knockoff PVRs that the cable companies are deploying. As an avid TiVo user myself I assure you that TiVo will not be dropping the capability to record cable programming.
I had just the opposite reaction. I sat there amazed at how human they made some the characters. I was downright shocked and awed.
I'm curious if they could make an entire non-cartoonish movie with the same level of detail and wonder what kind of horsepower would be required to render such a beast.
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I've researched this issue and the headline of the article is correct. TiVo is moving to bypass cable but not by throwing the whole system away and not allowing you to record cable BUT by integrating a cable card into a standalone TiVo box. This eliminates the need for a cable decoder. Their intent is to differentiate themselves further from the cheap knockoff PVRs that the cable companies are deploying. As an avid TiVo user myself I assure you that TiVo will not be dropping the capability to record cable programming.
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Here is an article that better describes what TiVo is doing: http://olympics.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtm
More information and analysis will most likely be available at my source for TiVo information http://www.tivoblog.com/ tomorrow.
According to http://www.tivoblog.com/ this update could take several weeks to be deployed. Hopefully it doesn't take that long.
I had just the opposite reaction. I sat there amazed at how human they made some the characters. I was downright shocked and awed.
I'm curious if they could make an entire non-cartoonish movie with the same level of detail and wonder what kind of horsepower would be required to render such a beast.