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There’s been quite a bit written on how consumers are interacting with TiVo, but there hasn’t been a lot said about how businesses are beginning to use TiVo. Over the past few years, it’s been no secret that TiVo has been beefing up their audience research capabilities and while having acce...
Potential Target = Fandango – Fandango is a fellow .com mania survivor who managed to scrape together an impressive business by being early and disruptive. Early on, TiVo and Fandango partnered to offer movie ticket reservations through the DVR and may even represent their first couch co...
You see, TiVo has a provision in their pill that says if someone triggers the pill, but then can’t pay for it, they have to pay in stock worth .50 cents on the dollar. Based on Dish Network and TiVo’s current market caps, this would mean that if TiVo managed to choke Dish on an acquisition, they’d...
Instead I think TiVo is planning a North Korea strategy. For years, they’ve been unable to command respect in their industry and as more and more generic DVRs have hit the market, TiVo has seen their market share eaten away by larger competitors. Now that TiVo possesses a nuclear DVR patent,...
After flipping through the current batch of killed pilots, I decided go back even further and list every show that’s ended, while I’ve owned and subscribed to it on TiVo. The following is my TiVo graveyard (listed in order of priority of course.)
You’ve got to hand it to TiVo. 10 years and 1 day after celebrating the production of the first TiVo DVR, they’ve taken a big leap ahead by adding the ability to fast forward through live TV. TiVotees already know that you can wait 20 minutes after a show starts and then can fast forward through t...
On the same day that TiVo was celebrating another legal win over Dish, they also learned of new lawsuit against them. Jonathan Riches has sued TiVo and some mysterious entity know as “HDTV” over the lack of HD TiVo in his jail cell. TiVo may end up needing to take Dish all the way to the Supreme Co...