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Originally Posted by Rattus
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.
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Well let's wait and see what happens with all these court cases.
I know V+ is clunky but it does what it says on the tin. And of course you can search on an Actors name now, so long as it appears in the synopsis. But are features like that going to sway people when they know they have to pay extra for it?, I genuinely doubt it but I will be thrilled to be proven wrong, but all those people who have canned it around the world who have had access to Tivo for years surely cannot be wrong, for whatever reason.
The only features that is of any interest to me is that you can record from the buffer. Would I pay extra for that, I am afraid not.
I might be interested if it had dynamic EPG but it hasn't, you have to pad just like you do with the good old legoland V+.
Like I say I completely get people paying for a film or getting the sports switched on for a month but I don't get paying for features that I genuinely don't believe most people have ever even craved.
I don't remember if I entered the free draw, if I did and was lucky enough to win I would certainly be happy to give it a go and in a year might change my mind, but knowing myself as I do I seriously doubt it.
And I would say I am a very Joe Bloggs sort of customer. I just get home, have dinner, get on the sofa and watch TV like most people. And hopefully not miss the end of any recordings.
I don't really need a box to tell me what I like, especially when it was me who told it what I like in the first place. That's what my brain is for and I will set my planner myself accordingly, even I am not that lazy and I doubt most are either.