TiVo insider speaks his mind

Om Malik, Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 10:21 AM PT Comments (1)

Slashdot Comments from Bryan Ischo, a TiVo Employee

It can be very disheartening to work for an innovator in a marketplace where large established companies have such control over the distribution channels…. It’s kind of funny to me that people will pay $80 cable bills without a whimper but will cry foul at the concept of paying $13 a month to TiVo to make the cable service so much more worthwhile…. Cable DVRs suck. Most people would be much happier with a TiVo and would find the extra expense to be justified.

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December 31st, 1969
5:59 PM PT
Alex Rowland said:

Unfortunately, people don’t always make logical purchase decisions. TiVo needs to budle some IP content with the guide service for the $13/month. That will help stop all this moaning. IP will aslo help TiVo show people there are other ways to get good content than through your doupoly cable/satellite provider.

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