Comments on: Study: DVRs in 27 Percent of TV Homes

By: Edencity

Edencity — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:24:15 +0000

THANKS..

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SnapStream Blog » Blog Archive » Friday Links 09.19.08 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:41:38 +0000

[...] Study: DVRs in 27% of TV Homes – 09/15/08 Leichtman Research Group (LRG) said today that 27 percent of TV households in the U.S. have at least one DVR, and 30 percent of those homes have more than one. Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for LRG, is quoted as saying that the number of DVR households in the U.S. basically doubled in the past two years and will double again in the next four years. via NewTeeVee [...]

By: sohbet

sohbet — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:51:26 +0000

At the end of July 2007 TiVo had 4.197m subs

By: muhabbet

muhabbet — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:50:11 +0000

At the end of July 2007 TiVo had 4.197m subs (1.708m were TiVo stand alone, rest DirecTiVo)

By: Bill G

Bill G — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:34:51 +0000

Dave, that 50k/month net subscriber loss is both their stand alone TiVo hardware and DirecTiVo units. Not sure why you'd call them "mothballed" if TiVo counts them as subscribers, they are paying for, and presumably using, the units.

At the end of July 2007 TiVo had 4.197m subs (1.708m were TiVo stand alone, rest DirecTiVo)

At the end of July 2008 TiVo had 3.623m subs (1.686m were TiVo stand alone, rest DirecTiVo)

So while they lost 574,000 subs in a year, most were from DirecTV, only 22k net subscriber losses were there own boxes.

By: William Maggos

William Maggos — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:16:12 +0000

Tivo needs to become an Apple TV competitor. Open up the platform to support media RSS & Shoutcast Radio/TV & bittorrent. shouldnt be hard, since Tivo already runs Linux. befriend the community to become the device everyone in new media supports. one way is to advertise in video podcasts, but also advertise for the new open Tivo on oldteevee by explaining whats possible and include newteevee celebrities/shows in the ads. it seems like Tivo is perfectly positioned for this, with a high level of brand recognition. bring the public with you, as whats even better than pre-recorded TV is pre-downloaded TV. and since cable companies are already trying to kill you, fight back by showing consumers HD alternatives to cable available for free on the internet and easy to display on their new 40" screen, if they just purchase your settop box.

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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:31:43 +0000

[...] New research reaffirms that there’s a DVR boom underway, so why can’t TiVo capitalize on it? Leichtman Research Group (LRG) said today that 27 percent of TV households in the U.S. have at least one DVR, and 30 percent of those homes have more Read More [...]

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:02:49 +0000

Yep, the cable companies are entrenched. Good for them, bad for someone cracking that nut via retail. Wonder about the 50k/mo number though – at that rate, they’d be losing 1/3rd or so of their stand alone customers in a year. UNLESS that number includes the the mothballed DirecTV units. In which case it isn’t entirely representative – those units don’t do MPEG4 and many are SD-only.