TiVo and Comcast at CES 2007
This is some news that makes me extremely happy. The iPhone didn’t do it for me. I could really care less about a cellphone honestly, I need it to dial people’s numbers, if it synchronizes with my existing Outlook address book, all the better.
But this…this….TiVo and Comcast announcing their TiVo powered cable company DVR is a great thing. I can’t stand my Comcast DVR and love my TiVo. The only problem is that the Comcast box is dual-tuner, more storage and HD compatible. Hopefully it won’t be too long before I can get my hands on one of these here in Indianapolis.
On the TiVo/Comcast front, I’m intrigued and can’t wait to see what the device looks like and can do. These days, Comcast subscribers face the question of their $5/month buggy HD DVR versus an extraordinarily expensive Series 3 TiVo box. If Comcast releases some form of the TiVo OS to their DVR lineup, I can’t imagine too many Series 3 TiVos will be sold. Of course, having TiVo shift to being a software company that relies on licensing deals is the way to go, especially since the many millions of Comcast customers would dwarf the current TiVo subscriber numbers. Making software for cable companies has to be a lot easier than building hardware and having to support millions of boxes in people’s homes.
Source: PVR Blog
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