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To: Road Walker who wrote (1846)	3/31/2006 6:26:37 PM
From: Cogito	of 2087

>>The "TiVo moment" for me is when I'm driving and listening to the radio, and I miss something that someone says... I always want to rewind and play it again.<< John - Yes! That happens to me all the time. I find it slightly odd that car audio manufacturers haven't caught on to the potential value of that feature. BTW, I've been staying with relatives for the past few weeks. They have no TiVo, and it's just wierd to me. We'll be out for dinner and my uncle will look at his watch and say, "We have to get the check. Boston Legal is on in five minutes." Then we rush out of there. Not to mention what a drag it is when somebody says, "What did he say?" while we're watching something, and we can't just go back and find out. And don't even get me started on how frustrating it is to have to watch the same commercial five times in a half hour. - Allen

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To: Cogito who wrote (1853)	3/31/2006 9:31:52 PM
From: Road Walker	of 2087

AM, I know... living without a DVR would really be a pain... and the functions should be moved to other "live" devices. I switched from TiVo to a cable company DVR a couple of weeks ago, to get HD. Man, does it suck.... I mean really bad. We literally have to press 3 buttons on the remote, in the right order, to turn on or off the TV. I'm not kidding. That's after replacing a unit that went out after about 5 days. The interface is terrible... to record something you have to go through hell. My wife wants her TiVo back (but I love the HD). I also have a Microsoft MCE computer (with a 27" monitor). Much better than the cable solution... almost as good as TiVo. Interface is decent, remote is lousy. The lesson? Don't give up your TiVo until the company is in the grave. I can't wait for the HD unit. John

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To: Road Walker who wrote (1854)	4/1/2006 10:59:23 AM
From: aerosappy	of 2087

<<My wife wants her TiVo back (but I love the HD).>> John, We had one, then two then three standard TiVo units with Directv. Then I bought a HD DVR with TiVo on eBay. Directv sent a team here to install almost one year ago. It has been fantastic -- full TiVo functionality while watching Jack Bauer in HD. Directv gave us access to Fox and NBC on satellite but our local CBS affiliate blocked our getting distant CBS HD. The off-air antenna we had installed does a good job with ABC and PBS but only fair with CBS on-air. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As to investment, I had not invested in TIVO until recently. Now I have been writing strangles -- first the 5 Puts and 7.5 Calls, and now I have written some 7.5 Puts. I have also gone long TIVO shares.

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From: TimF	4/11/2006 7:07:16 PM
	of 2087

TiVo Lifetime Update Yet another extension to the end date of lifetime subscriptions! Our TiVo standalone units are still able to get lifetime TiVo service until 4/15/06. You can't subscribe the units online to get the lifetime service, you have to call TiVo and do it by phone, but you can do it until 4/15/06. Important note here: this doesn't work for any units purchased bundled with service (which is pretty much the only way you can purchase them directly from TiVo at this point). A couple of other details: lifetime will continue to be available for Humax units. Apparently, as part of the terms of the agreement between TiVo and Humax, TiVo has to continue to offer lifetime service for these units - again, by phone only... wkblog.com

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From: Road Walker	4/12/2006 10:31:11 AM
	of 2087

TiVo, DirecTV extend relationship for 3 years Wednesday April 12, 9:26 am ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc. (NasdaqNM:TIVO - News) and DirecTV Group Inc. (NYSE:DTV - News) on Wednesday said they would extend their service and support agreement for three years, sending TiVo's shares up 9 percent in premarket trading. Satellite TV broadcaster DirecTV said last August that it would no longer market TiVo's digital video recorders and would use its own system made by News Corp. (NYSE:NWS - News)-controlled NDS Group Plc (NasdaqNM:NNDS - News). While DirecTV still will not be marketing TiVo, the two companies extended a deal under which customers can receive TiVo through DirecTV. Maintenance and support for the service will be provided by TiVo, which would have been under no obligation to service DirecTV customers without an extension to the agreement, due to expire in 2007. The statement from the two companies did not give financial terms of the extension, but said "the recurring monthly economics of the agreement are similar to the economics for DirecTV receivers with TiVo service activated since 2003." DirecTV is a top TiVo customer and the extension of the deal was initially greeted positively on Wall Street, where there had been concerns that DirecTV would transition their TiVo customers to its own service if an extension was not reached. DirecTV's decision to stop marketing TiVo and instead focus on News Corp. technology is part of a broader plan to replicate video-on-demand viewing, which has been a defining competitive advantage of cable operators. Satellite television technology only provides for a one-way broadcast of video programming, unlike cable TV, which also lets users send requests back to the cable system. Cable customers are able to order movies and shows with a click of their remote control. Another part of Wednesday's deal includes a provision under which TiVo and DirecTV agreed not to assert patent rights against the other. TiVo is currently in a legal battle with satellite television company EchoStar Communications Corp. (NasdaqNM:DISH - News) over patent claims. In the case, TiVo charges EchoStar with stealing technology that allows users to record one TV program while watching another via a DVR.

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To: Road Walker who wrote (1844)	4/13/2006 12:24:27 PM
From: lml	of 2087

"For the "Automatic Playback Overshoot Correction System," the cool interaction design feature where it "corrects" your overshoot on rewind+stop on the remote control. More evidence of how patentable good interaction design is." This feature also exists with the Replay, which was intro'd into the market @ the same relative time period as TiVo. Although there is no literature stating that the Replay does have this feature, I can tell you it does, @ least the machine I have, which is a 2000 series. Works beautifully, & honestly had the machine for @ least 6 months before I noticed the feature. It's a feature that other box makers should license if they wish to lure TiVo customers @ some point in the future.

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