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[Mediacentric] How would you change TiVo?: Re-Engineering Tivo Filed on 05/14/2005 under PVR, Tivo Engadget asks the musical question “How would you change TiVo?” Some interesting responses, along with some totally predictable ones... years.
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[Majid.info] Escape from TiVo: I upgraded to a Panasonic DMR-E80H, which offers more capacity than my old Sony SVR-2000, but the main reason for the upgrade was the fact I have for some time lost any vestigial trust for TiVo (the company). They spam you with advertising in the user interface (one of the items in the PVR main menu is a rotating ad), expropriate a portion of your precious hard drive space for the said spam, track your usage patterns behind your back, and have a nasty habit of disabling features in software releases.
[Pvr.blogs.com] Tivo's Home Media Option Review | PVRblog: The first major downside is that the HMO is only available on Series 2 TiVos, even though it is possible to get an older TiVo on a network. Another downside of the HMO is that owners of Series 2 DirecTiVo units have all the hardware capabilities to run it, but last year's purchase of the entire DirecTV sector of TiVO by DirecTV has put them in charge of software deployment and they have so far refused to offer networking capabilities, the HMO, or the newest 4.0 TiVo operating system.
[Pvrblog.com] TiVo Archives | PVRblog: I've had regular cable + a TiVo for about two years and a DirecTiVo with satellite for almost two years and there's no comparison. DirecTiVo offers features like two tuners that make program conflicts rare (and you can watch something live while something else is being recorded), the direct storage of satellite feeds means few compression artifacts and a near-DVD quality picture, and put simply, the only way to effectively manage hundreds of channels of content displaying at all hours of the day and night.
[Intelligentassistance.com] The present and future of post production business and technology ...: While some have been interpreting this as an indication that TiVo does not have a sunny future, it led me to wonder why TiVo has not been the success it should be. Part of the problem is, I suspect, that most people still don’t see the advantage of a TiVo/PVR over a VHS deck, particularly given the price difference, but more seriously I think it’s that, even among those who have a of some sort the problem of “good enough”
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