PVRLib > TiVo Confirms Service Officially Available in Canada

[Gadget News] Essentially what TiVo is suggesting is that Canadian's purchase a TiVo box in the US then simply import it into Canada and take advantage of the Canadian guide data which TiVo can provide. From TiVo's point of view this is a no lose, they cover the cost of the guide data via the subscription and they don't have any marketing costs at all in Canada.

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[Pvr.blogs.com] PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: tags to the show streams when they shouldn't have, but there was no workaround for the TiVo owner and it demonstrates what could very well happen in the near future with TiVos and other sorts of PVR devices. TiVo and other PVR companies have always had a rocky relationship with TV studios and with the loss of TV ad revenue and splintering of "prime time", TV studios have long been looking for a way to get control back.

Pvrblog.com[Pvrblog.com] TiVo Coming to Canada? | PVRblog: I don't know how much your time is worth to you, but even at a conservative 8 hours of investigate/purchase/assemble/install/configure/tweak will buy a couple of years worth of Tivo subscription fees for me. Not to mention the difference in hardware costs, and the wife appeal factor for the look of just another black box that blends in with the stereo unit, rather than a computer in the living room look.

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