 The BeerI Love It When A Plan Comes TogetherPremium
join:2001-07-24
Atlantic, IA | There is only 1 Tivo DVR's are not Tivo.
Tivo users are like Mac users, they will never turn back.
They need to get to the masses to get the cash flowing, not charging an arm and a leg to the people who already have it.
The cable co's would have jumped on board, had the price been right. It was cheaper for them to develop their own product.
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 ThalerPremium
join:2004-02-02
Los Angeles, CA
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| True that DVRs aren't all Tivos. In fact, while testing the waters of DVRs, I had a Sony w/ its own TV-Guide service on it.
The unfortunate thing is, I was missing the pause live TV function of Tivo to the damn thing. Sure, it could record just as well as my new guy, but the live TV control was a real good selling point I couldn't do without. |
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tgmct
join:2004-01-13
Chester, CT | reply to The Beer
I agree, but if sales don't turn around the lifetime of of 'lifetime service' may be somewhat sooner than I would like. The bottom line is that they need to be WAY AHEAD of the competition in terms of features. The service update of TivoToGo was really nice but there are much more pressing features needed:
1. At least a month of future programming for those that want (or need) it. The daily update should only reflect changes anyway.
2. Multiple tuner and direct digital decoding options. This could be handled with something like PCMCIA cards.
3. A method to handle schedule changes on an up-to-the-minute basis. How many shows have you lost because a football game went overtime? This could only be a reality with a broadband connection, but it is certainly feasible from a technology standpoint.
4. Give users the options to start a recording a few minutes late or stop them a few minutes early. Tivo scheduling is really being crippled by the games that the networks are playing these days with 9:03 or 9:59 start times. This option would probably require less than an hour of development time to accomplish.
There are many more. Tivo needs to be better in ALL respects than the competition in order to survive. Most of what I have mentioned is nothing new; the users have been requesting this and more for years. Every thing that it can't do is one more reason for a consumer to look at something else instead. So maybe Tivo management should be paying closer attention to their establish customers some more? |
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