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Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - davester - 08-25-2010
That's basically what happened with ReplayTV. Fortunately, they are still servicing the "lifetime" customers, long after the company has become essentially defunct.
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - volcs0 - 08-25-2010
Still SD in our house. Series 2 Tivo with lifetime and upgraded hard drives = 700 hours.... we haven't felt compelled to jump ship yet. Maybe this will be year we get rid of our enormous 36" JVC CRT...
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - Will Collier - 08-25-2010
The current DirecTV HD DVRs aren't bad at all. They don't have the Tivo autonomous show search AI, but I always hated that and turned it off anyway.
Now, my dad has a Scientific Atlanta box (Time Warner cable) and that thing gives pieces of crap a bad name...
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - Mike Johnson - 08-26-2010
We've been holding on to our DirecTivo w/lifetime service because we like both DirecTV and TiVo. We're holding out for the HD DirectTivo
that is going on sale in
Spring 2011 woooo!
The latest DirecTV HD PVR is a lot less buggy than previous models, so we'll probably upgrade when I have time. Teevee isn't really a priority right now.
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - Silencio - 08-26-2010
volcs0 wrote:
Still SD in our house. Series 2 Tivo with lifetime and upgraded hard drives = 700 hours.... we haven't felt compelled to jump ship yet. Maybe this will be year we get rid of our enormous 36" JVC CRT...
Same. Still have the old DirecTiVO Series 2 with a 750GB hard drive I put in, more than enough recording space to last me, outputting to my slightly less enormous 27" Sony Trinitron.
I am so not looking forward to spending all the money necessary to upgrade my system for high def. New TV, new DVR (and more expensive HD packages from DirecTV), new receiver, new phono preamp, new DVD player capable of upsampling, &c. &c. &c.
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - Seacrest - 08-26-2010
Mini 9 wrote:
I've always wanted to see/try a TiVO device.
Seems like a neat technology that should replace VCRs.
Yeah. That'll happen.
Right after CDs replace the long-playing record, and monkeys replace whatever else currently flies outta my butt.
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - Bimwad - 08-26-2010
TiVo is a company that has a great basic concept that they've milked for years.
Their problem is that they've never had a clue about how to capitalize on it and expand their market, and their development team has great difficulty actually delivering bug-free software, on time.
If the MSO equipment suppliers weren't even worse than TiVo at writing software, the doors would have shut much sooner.
It's a surprise they've survived this long.
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - davester - 08-26-2010
Silencio wrote: I am so not looking forward to spending all the money necessary to upgrade my system for high def. New TV, new DVR (and more expensive HD packages from DirecTV), new receiver, new phono preamp, new DVD player capable of upsampling, &c. &c. &c.
My solution was to ditch cable TV and buy a mac mini + eyeTV and Plex to replace the ReplayTV. Not quite as seamless (yet) as a ReplayTV, but now we have lots of content to choose from (Netflix, iTunes, lots of other stuff). Frankly there is nothing on the regular TV networks that is worth a damn that can't be obtained commercial free and relatively cheaply through other venues.
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - colonel panic - 08-26-2010
Everybody used to say Apple was circling the drain too. TiVo has been around for 13 years, I think they will be around a while longer. Like Apple they make a great product for a premium price. Eventually consumers catch on. If TiVo could make more deals like the one with Cox this year, that would certainly help their penetration into the market.
Re: TiVo - Circling the Drain? - pinion - 08-26-2010
DirectTV and Comcast should both be coming out with TiVo boxes.