TiVo’s walked a fine line
- Cory Doctorow
- Uncategorized
- Sep 07, 2001
TiVo’s walked a fine line between delivering what their audience wants — lots of great TV, no commercials — and what the networks (who are investors in the company) want: controlled digital video, with rights-managed material and ever-so-slightly broken commercial-skipping tech.
ReplayTV have dispensed with the fine line and thrown caution to the wind. With their new service, users can record hundreds of hours’ of programming, share it over the Internet, and use a single button to skip commercials. Link Discuss