I have a Tivo Series 3, and it seems to me to be a box with a lot of unfulfilled capabilities. There is so much more they could do with the box; but even mundane things like playing back content that is available on your network server, video podcasting support and so on simply aren't there. I don't feel cheated, but at the same time it seems to me that Tivo is ripe to be blown away by the next great thing, which is al a carte programming. Amazon Unbox is a nice idea, but cost is still too high to compete successfully with services such as NetFlix.
btw, I agree with you. There are a bunch of little things that they just haven't cleaned up that would go a long way toward me not feeling like a beta tester. I mean really, when was the last major windowsXP-style-service-pack that wiped out the bugs, added a couple of little features and fixed all the discontinuities?
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hal2k @ Jul 24th 2007 10:42AM
I have a Tivo Series 3, and it seems to me to be a box with a lot of unfulfilled capabilities. There is so much more they could do with the box; but even mundane things like playing back content that is available on your network server, video podcasting support and so on simply aren't there. I don't feel cheated, but at the same time it seems to me that Tivo is ripe to be blown away by the next great thing, which is al a carte programming. Amazon Unbox is a nice idea, but cost is still too high to compete successfully with services such as NetFlix.
andy @ Jul 24th 2007 10:48AM
too expensive even with the 99 cent sales?
andy @ Jul 24th 2007 10:56AM
btw, I agree with you. There are a bunch of little things that they just haven't cleaned up that would go a long way toward me not feeling like a beta tester. I mean really, when was the last major windowsXP-style-service-pack that wiped out the bugs, added a couple of little features and fixed all the discontinuities?