Tivo Signs Deal With Comcast

Chappy01 writes "TiVo has inked a long-term deal with Comcast, America's largest cable television operator, to develop a version of the TiVo service that will be offered to Comcast's DVR subscribers. The deal calls for TiVo to adapt its software to work on Comcast's existing DVR platform, and it allows TiVo to extend to Comcast subscribers the advertising it sells in the form of interactive video clips that automatically appear in the TiVo menu." From the article: "The move will increase TiVo's presence in American homes as it faces competition from generic DVRs offered directly by leading cable companies. Comcast Corp. expects to begin marketing the new DVRs, which will carry the TiVo brand, by mid- to late 2006." News also available from MSNBC and the Official Tivo Site.

Great news!

[skroob]

Hopefully this will stop people from predicting TiVo's death.

To save someone else the trouble of posting it...

[koreth]

What losers! Comcast's millions of customers could save so much money if they just built their own MythTV boxes from the spare computer parts they all have lying around their houses. I mean, it's the way I decided to do it, so it must therefore be the best possible solution for everyone on the planet!

Re:Great news!

[MasterOfUniverse]

I predict this deal will mark the death of Tivo.

Re:To save someone else the trouble of posting it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. Way to miss the point...

Re:Will they ship a new remote?

[MarkGriz]

"Substantial user interface design and testing went into the Tivo remote control,"

Not substantial enough. Sure, it fits perfectly in your hand and the button layout is good too. But god forbid you set it down for a few minutes and the damn thing is constantly rolling off the couch.

Re:Phone line needed?

[Anonymous Coward]

As long as those boxen don't have virii, it should just work.

Re:Current Comcast DVR sucks

[dfn5]

The current comcast DVRs have a tendency to freeze every 15-20 minutes

When they said "Pause live TV" they just forgot to include "every 15-20 minutes".

Re:To save someone else the trouble of posting it.

[soft_guy]

I think that the point the GPP is making is that if you can't build your own MythTV box and set it up yourself and support it yourself, then you don't deserve to have a television.

And that's true - just like computers. And cars. If you can't build it yourself out of spare parts, you shouldn't be allowed to have one.

Re:To save someone else the trouble of posting it.

[ryanvm]

Hey Sean Penn, the guy was just joking.

Re:Will they ship a new remote?

[hoggoth]

> it fits perfectly in your hand

It also fits perfectly in the mouth of a 3 year old. Then, it's peanut shapes keeps it stuck there as she runs around the room making screamy-gurgley noises with most of a Tivo remote sticking out of her face.

It took a while to clean all the gooey slobber off it too.

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

It is now official, Tivo is dying-- er, what, they signed? aw nevermind.

Re:Phone line needed?

[Zorilla]

No, it just makes it easier to identify those that are remarkably superficial and potentially nothing more than the current iteration of Eliza.

Dr. Sbaitso: Perhaps you are miss-tack-en?