"Our second TV effort, UltimateTV, is also sold directly to consumers. It is a service that provides DVR (digital video recording) functionality and capabilities to subscribers. The current deployment of UltimateTV is on a DirecTV satellite receiver box. Users of UltimateTV pay a monthly fee to use this service"
Funny, he didn't mention that UTV is basically on Life-Support right now, hasn't seen a software update in a year, and I gave up on writing their support email or visiting their web site.
I was a UTV user for almost 2 years. I LOVED it. But my RCA UTV DirecTV box died and I had to replace it. While I'm sure you can still buy a UTV box somewhere, it's not easy.
So I took the opportunity and converted to a DirecTivo box, using the Tivo service instead.
It's a shame, really. After having used both I can honestly say, to me at least, that the Microsoft UTV software/Interface is far superior to Tivo in most ways.
For heavens sake Tivo doesn't even show you what is, or will, be recorded while you are looking at the Channel Guide, an incredible ommision in the Tivo design.
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