Comments on: TiVo looks for an edge

Company enlists outside developers to help turn its DVR into home networking hub.
Images: Music to TiVo's ears

[Prndll]

What's the point?

What would the point be in this if it's going to be made illegal for me to have copys of movies on harddrives in my home? On a networked device? Capable of being online?

This is pointless......

[kingwr]

Not going to make a difference.

In losing their ties to major cable and satellite providers, TiVo is in the same boat as Microsoft with their Media Center. TV is going digital/HD over satellite and cable. But these companies are staunchly protective of their digital feeds in order to be able to market and control their own hardware. If TiVo and Microsoft MCE devices cannot get direct access to that digital signal, then all the bells and whistles in the world won't make a difference. I am not going to sacrifice the quality of my HD TV signal, having to go from digital decoded to analog, over a couple of cables and then re-encoded back to digital, just so I can play music over my TV.

Short tivo

You are dead on. Let me say I love tivo--its the best thing out since the vcr--there software is pretty good but there doomed. I knew the cable co. would simply come out with there own dvr and slap a cheap monthly fee on it and most importantly make it SIMPLE. If your on Cnet chances are your a techie---the other 85% of teh population wants to push a giant green button and be entertained--the only gadgets that are profitable can be used by grandma--my dad now has a computer but theres no way he could have operated my first computer with plain windows and dos commands---now I know i can network my tivo with my pc and make dvds but I dont want to spend the time--the cable companies will connect everything to there boxes and take all the business.

[bobby_brady]

Congress needs to get on board

and force the cable operators to open up their signal to allow feeds directly to computers, etc.

[Franceforum]

It makes a difference.

With more than 5,000 users since its March launch, iSeeiTunes has become a relative hit among the http://www.highspeedsat.com/-express-vue/ Satellite TV TiVo developer community.

[bobby_brady]

Might as well use Media Center

What would be the point of this for Tivo? Might as well use Media Center, which is becoming pretty polished. That way I can also burn to DVD/CD.

VOD

My cable system now has VOD programming but it requires using both my cable box and tivo remotes to record. Tivo needs an app that allows for recording VOD programming without having to use the cable remote.