 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to amungus
Re: Not that I care that much.. said by amungus:But Tivo is a ripoff. Monthly fees after buying the thing just seems wrong. Yep I neve r got the whole whole Tivo thing then once day I though "hey this might be an ok thing to have" well first the price of the damned thing nearly scared me off. Then I found out you have to pay $15 a month in addition. I thought "fuck that". In the days of VCR didn't you have to pay a monthly fee after you bough the VCR? Nope. All this is a modernized VCR. Renting one from cable/sat is almost as stupid. Do I get to keep all that I recorded if I decide I don't want the service anymore? With a VCR I record and I keep. Besides with sites like Hulu what's the point? Many shows you can watch online anytime if you miss it. |
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| Three features that I care about and nobody elsehave pulled off well (besides maybe ReplayTV, but they're dead and gone) :
- season passes that NEVER miss an episode (at least in my 7 years of using it)
- wishlists
- program suggestions
For now I am more than happy to pay my $13 to Tivo every month. Maybe I'm being ripped off, but there's nothing else out there that I've found competes with these features.
PS: FWIW, my biggest fear is that future DRM issues will screw it all up. I'm just doing OTA HD now, but plan to go back to DirecTV when they release their new Tivo based DVR, but I dread what DRM they may have plans to implement. But this probably would be more of a DirecTV mandate than anything Tivo would dream up. |
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| The only people that don't understand paying for Tivo's Service are those who've never used one. Anyone that's used one for a period will understand paying for it. May not want to pay for it, may not like paying for it, but will still understand why someone would.
DirectTV thought they could pull a Dish and do a DVR as good as Tivo. More than 3 years later with a box that's 4 times more powerful (raw computing power) the thing is 10 times slower responding to commands and has less than 1/4 of the features. There is literally a 3 second delay sometimes after pushing a button. I never had even a 1/2 second delay on my DirecTivo HD. Hopefully we'll be getting a new Tivo Box or Tivo software on the DirecTV box shortly as I'm simply getting fed up with the DirecTV HD DVR. I've been living with less since I got my HDTV and I want my TIVO back even if I have to pay them a separate fee to get it as I'm not willing to go to Comcast. |
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