June 6th, 2007
Could Tivo Return to DirecTV?
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Raise your hand if you have a Tivo and love it. Now raise it if you have had a different PVR in the past and would never (if possible) switch away from Tivo. I would be included in both groups myself. But I switched to Tivo when I changed from Dish Network to DirecTV. In the time I have had it, it’s been nearly (it missed recording one program … dunno why … and every other time we thought it screwed up it was a rerun that we didn’t recognize as such …) flawless. Of course, I got my DirecTivo right when it looked like Tivo was going to be gone forever from DirecTV … raising fears for my wife (who loves the DirecTivo) that someday it will break and we will have to use a “lesser” PVR.
But with the still-to-be-completed sale of DirectTV to Liberty Media looming, and with the apparent openness of Liberty Media towards Tivos, we may yet see new DirecTivos.
DirecTV said in August 2005 that it would stop marketing TiVo digital video recorders to its customers, focusing instead on boxes made by NDS, a company that is owned by DirecTV’s largest shareholder News Corp.
But with control of DirecTV expected to pass from News Corp. to Liberty Media later this year, that could be “positive” for TiVo, said its Chief Executive Tom Rogers. Rogers said people he knew at Liberty were fans of TiVo DVRs. Source: Reuters
We Say: Rogers also said that Liberty Media has no interest in creating a competing PVR … I told my wife this news and she immediately smiled. 
Direct Guy says:
HUGE MOVE…if it happens. TIVO HD DVR is 10 times the machine the new Directv HD DVRs…I know people that want to add receivers but refuse to get the new dvr after using mine……
June 7th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Matt Seitz says:
Agreed, in many ways my TiVo is still superior to my Dish Network DVRs. But I find myself using it less and less for a few reasons:
1. I have a Dish 522 hooked up to the bedroom and the family room. It’s very nice to be able to watch recording from either room. I could buy another TiVo and pay an additional monthly fee, but I get this capability from Dish as part of my subscription plan
2. In my living room I have HDTV. TiVo wasn’t offering an HDTV DVR when I got it installed, and Dish was. I see TiVo has one now, but it’s too much extra money, too late.
3. Dish has been improving the features of it’s DVR, including better search and a Season Pass like feature. It’s still not as good as TiVo, but again, I’m not sure TiVo is worth paying the extra money.
I keep my one TiVo subscription for now, because I still like some of the extra features sometimes. And I would jump for joy if Dish started using TiVo technology. But Dish is now “close enough”, and in some ways better, so I end up using my Dish DVR more than my TiVo.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Pockpie says:
I’ll use Comcast, Dish or Direct….whomever supplies the REAL TIVO first.
June 9th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Pockpie says:
I take that back. I don’t like Dish as they’ve tried to screw with TIVO…my true love.
Bye-Bye-Dish.
June 9th, 2007 at 4:40 am
Gabriel Martin says:
The highly-acclaimed ViP622 DVR(tm) is the perfect complement to DISH Network’s extensive lineup of HD programming — and it’s free to new customers who qualify. One of the most advanced multi-room HD DVR receivers on the market today, the ViP622 DVR boasts the only true 30-second skip feature in the industry — allowing subscribers to watch television commercial-free.
Who will tell me now that directv or any cable companies have better quality in clarity for their channels…Im from AUSTIN,Texas and had time warner cable serices, then as my uncle is working with a subcontractor for dish and directv, we have both their services (we have also their top of the line hd dvr, but dish hd-dvr is way better than directv hd dvr
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