NYT: Cable Giant (Comcast) to Offer TiVo Video Recording

[DeepModem Mom]

Cable Giant to Offer TiVo Video Recording
By SAUL HANSELL

Published: March 16, 2005


Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, said yesterday that it would offer its customers a video recorder service from TiVo, news that helped send TiVo's shares up nearly 75 percent.

Investors had soured on TiVo lately, on fears that its pioneering service for digitally recording and playing back television programs was being eclipsed by house brands offered by satellite and cable companies....

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The new deal calls for TiVo to create software that can be downloaded and run on the Motorola video recording set-top boxes. It would be offered for a higher monthly fee than the generic Comcast version, which would still be available. Currently, Comcast charges about $10 a month for the video recording service. TiVo currently sells a stand-alone service for $13 a month. The TiVo service will not be available to Comcast customers until the second half of next year.

All digital video recorders, or DVR's, use a hard drive to let users record programs, even as they watch them, if they choose, so they can pause viewing of a live show. TiVo has some highly regarded software that adds additional sizzle, like automatically recording any programs that feature the viewer's favorite actor. It is also developing software that lets users move recorded programs to laptop computers or hand-held video players for later viewing....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/technology/16tivo.html

[NYCGirl]

1. I LOVE MY TiVO!

Just wanted to say that.
:evilgrin:

[Renew Deal]

4. Me too!!

The Tivo is the most useful thing I have bought in years (especially if you don't count the computer).

[booksenkatz]

2. ...and I just want to say

that Comcast just raised their rates on us -- over $90 per month now for broadband and cable, and we almost never turn the TV on. My husband likes to watch some shows on A&E and Canadian TV a few times a week, that's all. Sheesh! So I won't give them a penny more for a damned thing -- I'm still trying to work on my husband to give up TV completely!
:grr:

[donna_brasco]

3. There's something new coming out, called HDD DVD

A hard drive disk and digital video disk. You'll be able to record programs and burn a rewritable DVD for storage. There's no monthly charge for HDD DVD.

It's coming out in Japan this year.

(I have a source, but I don't know how to post it)

[Mithras61]

8. Could you possibly mean something like this...

http://www.tivo.com/2.1.2.asp

It has an 80-hour HDD with DVD-R/DVD-RW capability...

[donna_brasco]

9. Ok, I think this will work

I think you should be able to click this to see the article.

www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers134.html

That article says TIVO will go bye bye. I admit to not knowing too much about it, but the article caught my eye because I was considering TIVO. Your article is interesting as well. They both make me scratch my head. :)

[NYCGirl]

10. TiVo's demise has been predicted once a week for years.

TiVo is now open sourcing its software to developers and it's going to open a whole new world...TiVo isn't going anywhere.

http://hme.pvrblog.com/applications

If you want to talk to TiVo users, go to:

www.tivocommunity.com

[donna_brasco]

11. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

[DeepModem Mom]

12. Hi, donna -- thanks for your posts, and welcome to DU!

[donna_brasco]

13. Thanks. :)

[Heyo]

14. You are right..

TiVo is not going anywhere...

Now that I have it, I can see that.

I am now able to watch pretty much exactly what I want to watch, anytime I want.. without all the crap you sit through when you're sitting there like "flip flip flip flip flip"...

TiVo rules!!

Heyo

[newyawker99]

15. Hi donna_brasco!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[AuntiBush]

5. Are you folks aware Cable Gave 100% to CORRECTED!

Check with Dr. Dean at http://www.cobb24.com/?template=list

I was wrong... sorry Du'ers! They gave mostly to BLUE!

[NYCGirl]

6. I'm with Time Warner. They gave a lot to Kerry, too.

And my TiVo is a stand-alone, not connected with any cable company.

And just for good measure — I LOVE MY TIVO!

[PollyH]

7. TiVo

I could not live without my TiVo. Have had it since December 2004 and I am addicted. It gives me control over what I want to watch, when I want to watch it. I just record my favorite programs and live happily ever after. It was a godsend as I no longer watch any television news and boy does that make me feel good.