Mr Matt
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| I don't think that CEO Tom Rogers gets it!  When it comers to TiVO everyone has their hands out looking for money. First there is the purchase price of the hardware and then the single pay or monthly subscription fee, then there is the cable ripoff of about $8.95 per month for a cable card and digital outlet. I consider the digital outlet fee a fraudulent charge since there is no additional equipment associated with the outlet. Customers are tired of getting ripped off. It is too bad that we do not have lawmakers like the ones that created and passed the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992. The writers of the bill explained that they were angry when the Cable Ready Television Sets that they had just purchased could only receive a few channels because the cable parasites scrambled all other channels. Unfortunately there is little hope of relief Seventeen Years later, because the lawmakers have become cable industry sock puppets. |
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kudos:4 | »TiVO Tries To Figure Out Where It Fits
According to Rogers, TiVo is not a DVR hardware provider or even a software company, but a "television behavioral company at heart." Well then he has 2 choices then as a "television behavioral company":
(1) change to a non-profit and then lobby for rules & laws modifying how people watch TV.
(2) continue to milk their patents; collect the fees; layoff all their workers; and return a nice dividend to their stockholders.
Because it looks like their CEO has no business plan at all. Hey, maybe they just need a new CEO. One who knows where he wants the company to go.
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