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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

And there will be much rejoicing... next year

From Ars Technica comes the welcome news that TiVo and DirecTV are getting the band back together.
Come 2008, DirecTV's TiVo users will get a major update to their DVRs. The message from DirecTV HQ appears to be "don't bail on us yet, TiVo users."

In early June we reported on signs of renewed courtship between TiVo and DirecTV's new ownership, Liberty Media. TiVo CEO Tom Rogers hinted at the possibilities between the two parties when he noted that Liberty isn't in the business of making DVRs, unlike DirecTV's previous owners, News Corp. TiVo's profitable relationship with DirecTV came unraveled years ago when News Corp's influence led them to roll their own DVR solution and begin phasing out TiVo altogether.

Clearly the road map has changed, as the two companies today announced something that I thought I'd never see: a series of major updates planned for Series 2-based DVRs. This includes all TiVo units DirecTV has rolled out in recent years, including the HD TiVo HR 10-250, which is based on the Series 2 platform.
I've been a DirecTV subscriber for ten years and a very happy DirecTiVo devotee for three. Last year, I upgraded and expanded my DirecTiVo unit with the Zipper--going from stock 35GB to 500GB and adding the networking and other features DirecTV didn't want to roll out to TiVo users--and although HD is beautiful (especially for baseball!) I don't want to move to DirecTV's non-TiVo HD-DVR. The possibility (mentioned later in the Ars Technica article) of a new DirecTiVo HD unit has me very excited.
|| Andrew, 11:53 AM || ||

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