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Tivo's fundamental problem is they don't really do anything special.

Sky ripped of Tivo pretty quickly. And you can get umpteen freeview PVRs around that do what the Tivo does.

Non of this new web stuff is their patents. I even doubt if their search function patents are all that either. How they ever thought "being able to search by actor" was patentable i'll never know. It's hardly by the definition of something that is patentable a novel non obvious step forward in technology.