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TiVo losing ground fast in battle for survival | |
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| Time: 09:44 EST/14:44 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim | ||
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TiVo could go down in history as Silicon Valley's most successful failure. The San Jose company has created what is arguably the second-biggest consumer brand name to emerge from the valley in a decade, surpassed only by Apple Computer's iPod. TiVo the product has become a short-hand way of referring to all digital video recorders, or DVRs, which are light years ahead of VCRs in gathering TV shows you want to watch and playing them back whenever it's convenient. Its high profile has added the phrase ``I'll TiVo that show for you'' to everyday speech. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 1/21/2005 1:36:14 PM |
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Tivo is the 2nd best DVR there ever was. UltimateTV was first. Microsoft pulled the rug on a great product (and a lot of users), and then Tivo was #1.
Now I have to send one of them to Mirimar... Ooopps, wrong story line :) Anyway, I think three things are killing Tivo, and neither one of them are subscription costs: 1. The enormous, ridiculous cost of the DirecTV HD DVR box. $1000? Paaleeeease. 2. The Cable Companies charge into the HD DVR market with their own boxes. 3. DirecTV's lack of HD Programming, and the need to still use an antennae for local stations. Don't get me wrong. These Cable HD DVR boxes, while _useable_, are NOT Tivo's by any stretch of the imagination. The coding of the features of this SA8300HD box I have from cox is totally BRAIN-DEAD. I've never seen such poor implementation of features, or a device that does exactly the opposite of what you think it should do. I switch to cable because of the outrageous cost of HD/DVR with DirecTV. The box costs me $10 a month to rent, it brings local station HD down the cable, and there are more HD channels overall than DirecTV. Most satellite boxes (even the expensive one's) have paltry 90 day warranties. If my Cable HD/DVR breaks, I drive a few miles to the cox plant and turn it in for a new one. It costs me $9.95 a month to rent. No doubt I'm sacrificing DVR quality for cost, but in this case the difference is so grand (literally) there is no choice here. TL |
| #2 By 37 (67.37.29.142) at 1/21/2005 5:06:17 PM |
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"Media Center PC - about $1,500. "
When it first came out. Now you can get them for half that, and it does SUBSTANIALLY more than a TIVO. In fact, I bet it does 1,000,000,000 times more than a TIVO. |
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