TiVo Series 3: Dreams... shattered
Sep. 13th, 2006 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidologySo, TiVo announced the Series 3 yesterday.
For just $800, you can have a TiVo and the privilege of paying $12.95 per month (minimum 1-year contract). Let's see, $3 a month toAdelphia Time Warner for an HD DVR box v. $800 + 12.95/mo. Gee, I wonder which one consumers will go for. </sarcasm>
I loves me some TiVo (3 in the apartment), but at $800, even I'm ready to jump ship. $800 x 3 TVs isn't exactly cheap. For $800 a box, I'll just wait for something else—like the Vista Media Center to (eventually) come out. Then I can save on one of the boxes because the SeXbox 360 can be used as a Media Sextender. On top of that, for probably the same price as the series 3, the Vista Media Centers are full blown (and rather powerful) computers.
I think TiVo was already in trouble, but after this brutal announcement I think the death knell is starting to sound.
Major sadness. My dreams of the world being ruled by a master race of hacked TiVo overlords are fading.
*sigh*
For just $800, you can have a TiVo and the privilege of paying $12.95 per month (minimum 1-year contract). Let's see, $3 a month to
I loves me some TiVo (3 in the apartment), but at $800, even I'm ready to jump ship. $800 x 3 TVs isn't exactly cheap. For $800 a box, I'll just wait for something else—like the Vista Media Center to (eventually) come out. Then I can save on one of the boxes because the SeXbox 360 can be used as a Media Sextender. On top of that, for probably the same price as the series 3, the Vista Media Centers are full blown (and rather powerful) computers.
I think TiVo was already in trouble, but after this brutal announcement I think the death knell is starting to sound.
Major sadness. My dreams of the world being ruled by a master race of hacked TiVo overlords are fading.
TiVo is was love.
*sigh*
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Date: 2006-09-15 07:14 am (UTC)what do we win?
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Date: 2006-09-15 09:11 am (UTC)which is
Nada...nothing!
:)
xoxo