Tivo

[Brock Landers]

Its really awesome and now directv is GIVING them away, well you go to best buy, buy one for 100 bux, 107 after tax and get a 100 rebate back…no limit on them # of boxes either, so we just got a new box today with 80 Hrs of memory for our other TV upstairs which didn’t have tivo, just the old shitty box, what a good deal though, we bought a tivo box last February, 2004, for like 130 bux! Now they are giving them away at best buy…

Can't imagine TV without TIVO anymore...just need to get directv to upgrade us to the triple LNB and then we can watch and record at the same time, only have a single or double LNB now and can't do it.

 

[WorldNumberOne]

i have a DVR box from our local cable company . they are pretty cool..

tape 2 shows at once .

 

[sportsbet]

Best thing since sliced bread for us!

sb

 

[TescoVee]

Hey Brock,

i went to the Best Buy website and it looked like the free Tivo's and it looked like its for new DirectTv customers. were you already one ?

 

[Brock Landers]

I am already one, but i went to best buy's store here and the guy siad it didn't matter...only requirements for the rebate were proof of activiation on your bill and 24 months of service.

 

[TescoVee]

thanks for the headsup. need to get another one for the bedroom.

 

[Brock Landers]

Just double check to make sure when you are at Best Buy...

 

[Brock Landers]

Just checked and everything is cool with being an existing customer.


Anyway, i got rid of my land line a while back and they said you NEED a land line to activate, then i went to Tivo's page and found this about connecting via a wireless network, which i have at home

http://customersupport.tivo.com/knowbase/root/public/tv2008.htm

So i am set, and so is anyone else without a landline..

 

[TescoVee]

this must be a reason for the deal

DirecTV Group Inc. said it would stop marketing TiVo Inc.'s digital video recorders in October, when the satellite television company plans to introduce its own service."The product we will market is our product," DirecTV Chief Executive Chase Carey said Wednesday at the Reuters Telecommunications, Cable and Satellite Summit in New York

El Segundo-based DirecTV announced in January that it would begin selling its own recorder this year alongside TiVo. But Carey's comments marked the first time the company stated that it would cease promoting TiVo, which enables users to record TV shows and pause live television.

"Our marketing and sales efforts will focus on our new DVR," DirecTV spokesman Bob Marsocci said. The recorder is being developed by NDS Group, a British unit of News Corp., which has a 34% stake in DirecTV.

DirecTV, under an eight-year contract scheduled to end in February 2007, is still required to sell TiVo subscriptions to its customers but will do so only when customers specifically request TiVo, Marsocci said.

Executives at TiVo declined to comment.

TiVo shares fell 37 cents, or 6.2%, to $5.62.

TiVo had enrolled 2.1 million of its 3.3 million subscribers from DirecTV as of April 30. Although DirecTV's decision is not expected to affect current TiVo subscribers, analysts say the move will significantly slow the number of new customers for TiVo. In the three months ended April 30, 77% of TiVo's new subscribers came from DirecTV.

"That figure is likely to go to zero," said Alan Bezoza, analyst with investment firm Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co.

Alviso, Calif.-based TiVo, whose troubled relationship with DirecTV has been widely known, has been seeking other partners. In March, TiVo signed a deal with Comcast Corp. to offer service to the cable company's 21.5 million customers starting next year. And this month, the National Cable Television Cooperative, representing more than 1,000 independent cable companies, agreed to offer TiVo to its 14 million subscribers.