http://thomashawk.com/2006/09/tivo-in-new-york-times.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://thomashawk.com/2006/09/tivo-in-new-york-times.html/comment-page-1#comment-12195 Anonymous Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:10:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1830#comment-12195 I find Tivo's constant "screw are current customers who give us revenue so we can get into the pants of ms Madison and make them watch adds and use their drive space for are whims" a little tiring. Company has s worse identify crisis then google, but Tivo really doesn't get who butters their bread.<br />That said there are adds I watch (movie adds mostly) and if somebody can put the magic into targeting there might be something there eventually (but mostly in the form of can't skip adds and the whole box will get tossed out the window). The problem is that there are so many other data coletors coming to market and heavy hitters with huge bases coming through the cable companies, sat, and now phone. So is Ms Madison going to put out to Comcast or Tivo for similar data? Ms. Madison has never been that cagey about who she wants to be in bed with... Who is more likely to just let the data abuse go, comcast customers or the Tivo folks who tend to pay shockingly high fee's for pretty run of the mill guide data that most folks can get for free? Slowly choking the goose to death one egg at a time, Tivo. I find Tivo’s constant “screw are current customers who give us revenue so we can get into the pants of ms Madison and make them watch adds and use their drive space for are whims” a little tiring. Company has s worse identify crisis then google, but Tivo really doesn’t get who butters their bread.
That said there are adds I watch (movie adds mostly) and if somebody can put the magic into targeting there might be something there eventually (but mostly in the form of can’t skip adds and the whole box will get tossed out the window). The problem is that there are so many other data coletors coming to market and heavy hitters with huge bases coming through the cable companies, sat, and now phone. So is Ms Madison going to put out to Comcast or Tivo for similar data? Ms. Madison has never been that cagey about who she wants to be in bed with… Who is more likely to just let the data abuse go, comcast customers or the Tivo folks who tend to pay shockingly high fee’s for pretty run of the mill guide data that most folks can get for free? Slowly choking the goose to death one egg at a time, Tivo.

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