TiVo Pop-Up Ads Raise Consumer Concerns
Posted by malebolgia on 28 November 2004 - 03:55 · 15 comments & 1120 views
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#1 Posted by gadean on 28 Nov 2004 - 04:01
- TiVo is on the fasttrack to becoming obsolete. First they plan to end their commercial free recording and now they plan to annoy its userbase with popup ads? Geez, users aen't going to stand for this. It's not 1999 anymore.
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#2 Posted by PseudoRandomDragon on 28 Nov 2004 - 04:41
- There is an ad for Tivo right next to this article.
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#3 Posted by imtoomuch on 28 Nov 2004 - 04:47
- I think TiVo will become obsolete because of cable companies offering their own DVRs and service, but the people running TiVo obviously are clueless. They are only helping to drive the company into the ground at a faster pace than would probably happen otherwise.
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#4 Posted by mohennessey on 28 Nov 2004 - 05:11
- id like to try out windows MCE. i currently own a tivo and the only thing really holding back tivo is the monthly subscription fee per unit in the household.
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#5 Posted by hardgiant on 28 Nov 2004 - 07:24
- Considering how much TiVo's cost I think a cheap PC could do the job for less.
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#6 Posted by Wolfsglen on 28 Nov 2004 - 12:35
- Wow, what a good deal /sarcasm, once again we pay good money for the "privilege" of being spammed with adverts and told what we can or cant do with our own hardware by some corporate drone...gee sign me up
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#7 Posted by montivfx on 28 Nov 2004 - 14:41
- You can get new series 2 tivos for less than 99 bucks... A PC that cheap will also not be as quiet as tivo....
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#8 Posted by JZolloXP on 28 Nov 2004 - 15:20
- Tivo > MCE
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#9 Posted by Sinzen on 28 Nov 2004 - 17:14
- in a system where the big studios have more control than the people, such a device as Tivo was destined to fail, right from the thought....the idea behind it is great, but more and more control is being handed over to Hollywood....media is going to sh*t anyways....not a whole lot out there that is seriously worth the time....R.I.P. T.I.V.O.
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#10 Posted by ANova on 28 Nov 2004 - 23:07
- Nowadays you get hammered with advertising no matter where you go. It's really beginning to piss me off.
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#11 Posted by TLP on 29 Nov 2004 - 01:09
- Even Tivo's rival ReplayTV is doing something similar. There is surrently a sweepstakes that you can enter by registering a code you get when you pause a program!
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#12 Posted by Hills420 on 29 Nov 2004 - 17:39
- The sweepstakes on ReplayTV are only when you hit Pause (and is random, not everytime you hit pause)I'd still take my Replay over Tivo any day.
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#13 Posted by powerlifter450 on 29 Nov 2004 - 22:20
- Tivos adding ads even when you fast forward.More direct marketing type stuff.they also sold out to macromedia or is it macrovision? anyway sometime soon you will get a new update to all your tivos.you will no longer be able to record pay per view or video on demand content..these people are sell outs.
hook your computer to your tv and use the honestech pvr software or maybe invervideos winDVR or some other quality software and not get screwed by the man!
Is it becoming TiVo — their way? "Consumers are very distrustful of technologies that seize yet another opportunity to offer up advertising," said Mike Godwin, legal director of Public Knowledge, a public interest group. Whether the fears are founded or not, he said, "it feels like TiVo is taking away some of the prerogatives and flexibility that TiVo TV watchers have become accustomed to."
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