article on H20 and Tivoseries3

[jasoncourt]

article on HR20 and Tivoseries3

Check out this article. There is nothing profound, but the compatibility of Series3 Tivo's cablecard function with Directv is interesting.

article link. . . http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060809-7454.html

 

[Brewer4]

Interesting but cable card like that wont happen (just my opinion). Murdoch does not like to share hence the NDS receivers. I think they will have a capture method but right now I would guess that you will see one for the Windows Media Center before a standalone Tivo or other generic cable card device.

 

[Kentstater72]

Is it possible that D* would try to avoid the legal problems E* had by building in a compatibility with the series 3?

 

[Brewer4]

Whats funny is technology around HD and DVR stuff can do just about anything. I know there is bandwidth limitation for the number of HD channels but HD growth and advanced features are more slowed down by marketing, legal and profit reasons right now. I think slow and steady business practices is more important reason then anything. If D* really wanted to be on this device or any other, they would. But I think their thinking is all about the Wall Street bottom line. If I cant see an ROI on something why offer it.

Thats why we are seeing the NDS stuff. They own the company, it needs to be just good enough. Look at their latest profits. From a business perspective, they are doing alot of things right. From an early adoptor, love HD, gotta have lots of new toys, they are frustrating the heck out of folks. They may lose some high end folks but the plain vanilla stuff is kicking butt right now.

DIRECTV U.S. Revenues Increase 12% to $3.3 Billion and Cash Flow before Interest and Taxes Nearly Triples to $450 Million

Operating profit before depreciation and amortization(1) nearly doubled to $977 million compared to last year's second quarter