Was just reading that story today. I resolved to stay away from Tivo after I started reading about how much information they were gathering on viewing habits.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-et- tivo17nov17,0,3236496.story?coll=la-home-headlines On Sunday, November 21, 2004, at 08:43 PM, Rob Kersting wrote: > The TV tuner cards are handy sometimes, especially during boring days > at the office. > > As for TiVo, you're correct, it's not going out of business, but it's > being changed drastically in the next few months. > > Networks are bitching (what a surprise!) about the ability to > time-shift and skip through commercials so the software will be > flashed to compromise. IIRC, in the future, while you're > fast-forwarding through the commercials, you'll get a banner ad for > something or another. > > I heard the story on NPR Friday, but I can't track it down now. I'll > keep searching. > > rob > > Robert M. Klein wrote: > >> I cannot imagine why anyone would want to watch TV through their >> computers, >> but I can tell you that TiVo is the greatest invention since color >> television. Watch what you want, when you want, skip the commercials >> and >> the stuff you don't like, subscribe to your favorite shows and forget >> about >> programming them in each week, etc. Watching in real time? Answer >> the >> phone and not miss anything. >> >> No, TiVo is not going under. >> >>> From what I have seen, the TiVo software is the most seamless and >>> easiest to >> use. That's really what you're paying for, the software and the >> subscription service. Otherwise, it's just a hard drive. >> >> Robert >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
