TiVo Inc. (TIVO)

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    T Muller
    Aug 20 11:48 AM
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    YouTube and TiVo: Increasing Access to Content [view article]
    Should have gotten an AppleTV. It syncs with YouTube account. I love it. YouTube rocks, endless amounts of entertainment on there. I thought YouTube had been on TiVo forever, guess I was mistaken. Reply
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    Thunderdrumz
    Aug 14 07:25 PM
    General Discussion on TIVO
    Wow. Good question. I hold the stock and don't know. One thing that would help me decide is if someone could clear up exactly how strong the Tivo technology patents are. Since they've won the lawsuit with DISH Networks (but still haven't collected??), it's been said they have rock solid patents on time-shifting and can go after other companies producing DVRs. It looks like they chose to align with Comcast through software upgrading of the Comcast DVRs, but I can never find news on where that's at.

    They'll probably have to collect the ~$100 million from Dish before they can sue other manufacturers, but I thought I also read that Comcast has been granted rights to deliver it's OnDemand service with licensed content delivered by servers... so back to the original question... is this a buy or a sell???     Reply
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    JachNighting
    ale
    Aug 07 11:47 AM
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    YouTube and TiVo: Increasing Access to Content [view article]
    I agree. Reply
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    seg
    Aug 05 01:05 PM
    Cablevision Gets a Win in Its Legal Struggle Over DVR Rights [view article]
    Tivo has many value features that the Comcast DVR does not have. It knows the TV schedule, so it will record a program even if there is a time or date change. Also, it has wishlists, so you can automatically record Marilyn Munroe movies, for example. Comcast offers Tivo as an option. Reply
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    ksmithdc
    Jul 24 09:37 AM
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    eBay is a Not Com - Cramer's Lightning Round (7/23/08) [view article]
    As a healthcare provider, I can tell you that United Health Care is a joke. They are continuously rated as the worst healthcare plan in the country. May they go bankrupt and soon. Reply
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    tivolutionar
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    Jul 21 06:46 PM
    YouTube Coming to TiVo, But Only for Under 750,000 Users [view article]
    All our home movies are posted to YouTube for grandma and grandpa, who live on the other coast and are hungry for video of their new grandkids. Being able to pull up all those clips on the TiVo is killer. Reply
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    The Shepherd
    Jul 21 05:08 PM
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    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    I don't understand why the stockholders don't demand more from TV executives. Sort of reminds me of General Motors, "We just need to market the product right, more gas hogs, more Hummers". TV is a vast wasteland, I too say, "Let it die". I canceled my satellite service in 2002 and have been TV free since then. Reply
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    Not
    surprised
    Jul 21 02:56 PM
    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    Like the movie studios, the networks have become divisions of very large multi-national corporations with many other interests.Each division must show substantial profits or else. The result is the production of least common denominator tv and films notwithstanding the abysmal content of the product.TAKE NO RISKS in the choice of material.I write this as a former film producer and studio executive of many years standing. Reply
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    Nigel
    Shiftright
    Jul 21 02:19 PM
    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    What a great article! As an engineer that deals with broadcasters and networks, I learned several years ago that with minor exceptions, the technology and programming are irrelevent to management. They don't want to pay for anything unless it interrupts the flow of the commercials. Good enough is good enough. Redundancy? Nobody's watching our digital anyways. 2009 is going to be a lot of fun. Reply
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    texasgolfer
    Jul 21 10:35 AM
    YouTube Coming to TiVo, But Only for Under 750,000 Users [view article]
    why do I need to watch YouTube on my TV or telephone for that matter? I doubt it will force a buying decision for anyone. Reply
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    User 190816
    Jul 21 10:12 AM
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    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    another in the long long line of shock columnists pronouncing the death of broadcast TV. but i have to say this is the first time i've read in the same article the solution is the same = broadcast TV.

    you can't have it both ways. which is it? (here's a hint: see your own line about "people don't have an Internet room in the house")

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    CT
    Programmer
    Jul 21 08:49 AM
    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    Good article, but I think your "big show" type of thinking won't go far anymore with TV, or any other media for that matter. I'm 40, and when we were kids there were basically 4 or 5 channels to watch. You still watched on days when, if you had been the program director, shows were on that you wouldn't necessarily put on. Sure, there were really good shows on. But if there had been adequate competition, would you really have watched one of the big three networks during prime time? How many half-hour shows had good ratings just because they were plugged in between the good half-hour show at 8pm and the good show at 9pm? "Good" content is relative. People say that there are 200 channels on cable and nothing to watch, but the reality is that out of those 200 channels they may be interested in about 10 of them, but someone else would pick 10 different channels. Media is now spread out amongst a vast array of programming that can't possibly hope to attract the huge audiences of the past because not everyone is interested in the same thing. Your Superbowl analogy is an anomaly. I wasn't one of those millions of viewers because I can't stand football. You put on nothing but football on TV and you're lost me entirely. What will save the big media companies is to continue to buy up the little channels, but keep the targeted programming. Look at how many cable channels NBC owns now. The ad revenues will be lower for any given channel, because the audience is smaller, but the scale of the entire multi-channel operation will provide the revenues.

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    wall_st_geek
    Jul 21 08:32 AM
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    YouTube Coming to TiVo, But Only for Under 750,000 Users [view article]
    "And out of those 750,000, how many are connected to a broadband connection and not just a phone line? I know of many friends who have a Series 3 but only connect to a phone jack..."

    Hardly a scientific analysis. I agree that this is good for Tivo, but with the many different types of content enabled for the Series 3, I think the proportion of the 750K is much higher than you think. Also, consider that the 750K is only going to go higher, while the users upgrade to the latest platform - particularly with the prices for the Series 3 continuing to drop.


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    crowdofcheer
    leaders
    Jul 21 04:02 AM
    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    if you want to know what's going to be "red hot"? : just wait till analog is outlawed in 2009. local pirate broadcasts are going to be what every intelligent curious entertainment goer is going to be watching. this country's population is already super-thirsting for unfiltered broadcast, and only satellite can deliver something remotely related to that. but even satellite can't deliver real unfiltered mystique as illegal local origination broadcast. the nonsensical Congressional ban on analog is only going to help that along very nicely.

    does this help anyone in investing? no. do i care? no. fact: young people don't watch network TV. the profit engine of advertising is falling in conjunction with that. you can bring up any Nielson stat you want, nothing is going to change the reality.

    broadcast TV has lost touch with people. finished.     Reply
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    gwconcord
    Jul 20 03:16 PM
    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    While I agree that the networks should try to fill their slots with creative, intelligent, original programming, the headline about the end of broadcast TV indicates the author does not know what he's talking about. Neilsen just reported that more Americans are watching TV than ever. Using NBC as the apparent main gauge for the downfall of TV, when they consistently have the fewest top rated shows is ridiculous. While cable TV may be taking a greater share of the television-viewing pie, all of the four networks' parent companies own cable TV networks. This doesn't sound like the end of broadcast TV to me. Reply

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