I am one of those original TIVO users. I defended TIVO for years against all the things I knew they had no control over (Cable Boxes). I was an early adopter of the HD TIVO with CableCard support — and wrote my letters of complaint, not to TIVO, but to the FCC for their limited support and lack of two way communications.
But at some point I just gave up. I moved to AT&T uVerse fell in love with the multi-room feature and didn’t look back. But then I moved to Seattle, WA. I had to break up with AT&T and was forced into a relationship with Comcast and their 1990s style DVR. To put it simply Comcast sucked. I brought in an AppleTV, hacked it but was generally left unfulfilled. I attached an old laptop to the TV to run Netflix, Amazon Unbox and Hulu.
At this point my living room was looking like the service center at Best Buy. There had to be a better way to get all this stuff in one place? I looked at the Roku and Boxee Box. But I wanted local, HD (didn’t want to pay for it) and DVR capabilities.
Well, those naughty little folks over at TIVO pushed out an offer I couldn’t refuse. A new TIVO Premiere for zero down and $19 per month. It supports my HD antenna, Netflix, Amazon Unbox and will soon support Hulu. My monhtly TV costs have gone from $100 per month to less than $30 — and I get what I want, not a smorgusboard of channels I never watch.
Sales pitch over!
Look at all that stuff!
A thing of beauty