I was thinking about getting another Tivo at some point when we had the money to get an HDTV. Our DVR is starting to show its age. After Tivo announced that they’re limiting storage time based on the wishes of the copyright holder, I’m pretty much never going to buy a Tivo again. I think we’re not there yet, as the flags were set on the shows accidently.
Categories: Product Reviews, TrendWatch
8:30 am | 1 comment
September 14th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
Note that support for these restrictions is mandated by the MacroVision license. The same license TiVo holds is also held by ReplayTV, cable box DVR makers, etc. Pretty much every VCR, DVR, DVD Recorder - just about any commercial video recording device - has a MacroVision license. So dropping TiVo for some other commercial product is unlikely to buy you anything. You’d have to build your own MythTV or FreeVo box.