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Tivo: Service or Straight Gadget?

December 15th, 2004 by Mike

There is a great little article that just popped up on my RSS reader. Its from the guys over at Engadget. The article, Switched On: TiVo should skip ahead and kill subscription fees, says, well the title kind of states what the article says actually. Anyway, he’s right: Tivo should do something about that subscription fee. Its annoying. People have enough bills, I myself now know this first hand. I would love to have a Tivo, in fact, with my gadget fetish, many people are surprised that I DON’T have a Tivo. Earlier this year, I came very close to getting one, but that subscription rate stopped me.

Granted one can get the lifetime model, as suggested in the article, and thats fine. Maybe its a mental block, but I just couldn’t bring myself to actually buy the contraption.

Am I crazy? Are you crazy? What exactly makes a person “crazy” anyway? I don’t know, but I don’t think a person doesn’t want an extra monthly bill is crazy it at all. Good article.

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  • I'm not sure what features I'm missing out on, but it doesn't seem to matter to me, since it does exactly what I want it to, etc etc..
  • Mark
    that.s what you.re paying for...that extended interface is why they can charge a subscription fee and get people to pay it, and a crappy DVR can.t....
  • Yeah, thats a good point. And when I don't have a million other things to spend money on, I'm going to have to look into that type of thing. The only problem with those is that Tivo's interface is far superrior to any others.
  • Just get another DVR. My satellite service has some new satellite recievers that include a DVR and 100 hours of recording time, and we don't have to pay extra for that feature. I'm sure you can find a DVR at BestBuy or CircuitCity that can record shows digitally without having to pay a monthly bill to use it.
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