Tivo Series 3 > It's the DRM that makes or breaks it

It's the DRM that makes or breaks it

I agree, and as we all saw here »Tivo & DRM Tivo is ready with the lockdown.

reply to G_Poobah
Oh there is a huge upside to this. If the Tivo3 can be modded like a xbox then it will be a hit. They can put protection in it and lock it down, but if some clever person hacks it and creates some sort of modchip, then it will take off. To me the xbox is so hot because of the ability to really make it do what YOU want it to do.Tivo3 + modchip(i.e. record HD from sat/cable, real time encoder = major sales and serious profit. I would definitely buy one then.

Maybe you and all the other techies but not the average joe like myself. I'm not at all interested in tinkering with my digital equipment for fear of screwing it up and my warranty in the process.

And im guessing that the vast majority of TiVo subscribers just want a box that works and is not too restrictive.

I think you would easily pay an extra $100 to someone to solder a few pins on a chip to get rid of popups and enable fast forward thru commericials. Then imaging being able to take an HD signal, cut out commericals, and then encode straight to HD divx, XVID, or h.264. Hey TIVO are you listening, screw MPAA,DRM, and RIAA. Give us the toy we want and you will reap the benefits. SIMA gave us nice $50 toys (unintentionally of course) that blocked out VCR/DVD macro signals. Those things flew off the shelves in BestBuy, we hardly ever had them in stock when I worked there.

Actually you'd be wrong. I'd not be interested in anything of that sort. I don't want anyone screwing up my gear. If I fear the RIAA's restrictions that much I just would not buy any devices that were severely locked down.

reply to G_Poobah
What happened to RealplayTV? I still see the units in stoors....collecting dust. Seema like everyone wanta Tivo. Can you hack a ReplayTV box so you can record stuff to DVD?
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Buying Xbox Core system, will pay up to $450+ shipping. Serious inquires only, you must be Paypal verifired.

Replays after the 4XXX series sucked. They removed the sharing, they removed the auto commercial skip. I stopped with my 4000,never bothered to go to the 5000. With DVARchive, you can pull all the shows from your Replay, but since I record most stuff via HDTV now, my replay gets very little use.

Just to reply to those who AREN'T interested in their fair use rights. Let me ask you this, do you like to spend the 50-100.00 to get a TV show season on DVD at the end of the season? What about the 1200.00 you paid to receive those channels during the year? Where's your compensation for that? Or do you think that TV shows should 'expire' and if you want to record them for permenant archive purposes, you shouldn't be able to do that? If you could spend 250.00, and save ALL your shows, same quality, to DVD at a cost of 2-3.00 per season, would you consider that stealing? Do you consider commercial skipping 'stealing'? What about recording PPV?

Bottom line is I give them money, they give me entertainment. I choose the way I want to use the entertainment they sold me, not them. DRM is nothing except taking away my rights. If they try and take away those rights, then I go underground. Bottom line is I'll get what I want in the end.

(Note to MPAA. Teens are smarter, and even LESS moral than you are.. you're dead, and too greedy to realize it. Change your business model or die.)

*note: The DVD versions of show often suck, since they DON'T use the same music as the broadcast show. That's a major peeve of mine.