| Thinking beyond the DVR What TiVo needs to do is think beyond the concept of their box merely being a DVR and focus more on IPTV-type services, whether they are live streams or downloaded content. They've done this to an extent with podcasts and streaming radio, but they need to make a big push into this area. Bring that online content onto the TV screen, and TiVo suddenly can offer more than just recorded programs from what the broadcast networks and cable channels are offering.
I realize that the established entertainment companies won't want to put their content on such a service for fear of hurting their traditional distribution channels, but smaller companies will jump at the chance to reach viewers without having to bend over for the established channels. The quality of the content will be all over the place, but that will make watching interesting, and there's no doubt you'll get a wider variety of things to watch than you would on traditional TV. |
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| Tivo missed the ball on this one. While they are connected with amazon unbox, they should have taken the netflix/roku project. The tivo already had the hardware and the network connection, they should have just added the ability to pair with netflix. I have a tivo, actually 2, and now i have a roku. Netflix gain, Tivo's loss.
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| said by nightdesigns:Tivo missed the ball on this one. While they are connected with amazon unbox, they should have taken the netflix/roku project. The tivo already had the hardware and the network connection, they should have just added the ability to pair with netflix. I have a tivo, actually 2, and now i have a roku. Netflix gain, Tivo's loss. TiVo and Netflix actually signed a partnership back in 2004, but nothing every came about from it because the studios wouldn't let Netflix stream back then so the whole deal kind of died.
So it wasn't TiVo's fault. They tried to do what you suggested but were shut down by the studios. Later after the studios lightened up TiVo went with Amazon. |
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