Wednesday, April 12, 2006
DirecTiVo supported for 3 more years
Thomas Hawk has a nice overview of the recent agreement between DirecTV and TiVo that will continue support for the DirecTiVo for another 3 years.
This is good news for me because I have been a DirecTiVo customer since 2001 (I've never owned a standalone TiVo). When I upgraded my DirecTiVos in September, I purposely chose the R10 because it still used TiVo (instead of the NDS-powered DVR in the newer R15).
As I've said before, I wouldn't pay the $13+ fee for a standalone TiVo. It just isn't worth it. However, having a DirecTV box that has TiVo built in is worth the $5 I pay now.
Now maybe DirecTV will think about turning on all of the TiVo features that they've neglected over the past few years. I won't hold my breath, though.
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Thomas Hawk has a nice overview of the recent agreement between DirecTV and TiVo that will continue support for the DirecTiVo for another 3 years.
This is good news for me because I have been a DirecTiVo customer since 2001 (I've never owned a standalone TiVo). When I upgraded my DirecTiVos in September, I purposely chose the R10 because it still used TiVo (instead of the NDS-powered DVR in the newer R15).
As I've said before, I wouldn't pay the $13+ fee for a standalone TiVo. It just isn't worth it. However, having a DirecTV box that has TiVo built in is worth the $5 I pay now.
Now maybe DirecTV will think about turning on all of the TiVo features that they've neglected over the past few years. I won't hold my breath, though.
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