"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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Mark Zenier wrote:
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D Peter Maus wrote:
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And anybody but the brain dead will think twice or three times to buying
a box that requires a subscription, a phone line, and will snitch on
you about every time you did a rewind to get another look at a good
cleavage shot.


The primary reasons I never got a TiVo.

Once you have on, and I have had them since the first year... something like
7 or 8 years ago... and could not lieve without one. I hve three different
ones in the house.


And now this. They really needed to figure out who
their customers are.


Truth is: Most people don't care about the cost, the privacy invasion,
or even the use of the phone.

They care about features, and convenience. Which goes a long way to
explaining why TiVo boxes are being replaced with Cable boxes with TiVo
features. Many of which are actually TiVo boxes in cable clothing.

I have a cable "equivalent" at my weekned place. It is hateful in every
aspect (Time Warner) from the awful software to the remote control to the
highly inaccurate listings of upcoming progframs. I am swiutching to Direct
TV and a TIVO sometime this year when I can be there on a weekday to meet
the installer. A friend who moved to an apartment where he could not get
Direct TV had to use cable for a year. He said one of the main reasons for
mving was the awful cable implementation of its TiVo rip-off.