It’s Only a Rumor Folks, Apple and TiVo to Partner
Wild rumor: Apple & TiVo partner for iTV | PVRblog It’s only a rumor of course, but what would he blogosphere be without a bunch of irresponsible blogger’s rumor mongering about one of the hottest ideas in media and technology yet.
Remember! It’s! Only! A! Rumor!!!!
Gotta love it!
“…One of the hottest ideas in media and technology yet…”
Excuse me? Apple licensing the TiVo software for yet another PVR is a hot idea?
I think you’re turning into an Apple fanboy Thomas. This is neither hot nor a new idea, lots of companies have licensed the TiVo software – because TiVo is one of the few people who “get” the paradigm if the PVR.
I think its a good idea for Apple to license the technology (why reimplement the best wheel going?), but the downside to this is that whenever a company enters these license agreements they never have a path forward wrt upgrades of the TiVo software. TiVo produces upgrades to their software roughly once a quarter and past history has shown that companies licensing the TiVo technology are unable or unwilling to match this pace – leaving their versions of the pvr falling behinds in features and bug fixes.
Personally, if you want a TiVo – IMO get a TiVo! I bought a Hi-Def Series 3 Tivo a while back and for the most part, I am thrilled with it. I haven’t seen a PVR out there yet that can match its form/function. Now if only we can get the media companies to get over their need for draconian DRM methods which limit the features of my TiVo box (dammit I want Tivo-to-go and Tivo-to-come-back for my hi-def tivo!).
Frank, but I want to easily get my TiVo shows off my TiVo and on to my Mac for remote viewing.
I am sounding like a fanboy aren’t I?
Its not the desire for functionality that is making you look like a fanboy – its the hyperbole you use to describe the ability.
I think its a lapse on TiVo’s part not to have provided the tivo desktop to mac users yet, but I see nothing in the press release which indicated you’d get this functionality.
For instance, even though i have a tivo and a PC, TiVo-to-go is not available to me as I have the hi-def version of the tivo.