TiVo will die
Jim Louderback says the words we don't want to hear: TiVo will die. He gives three reasons, one, that it's too easy to do what they're doing and add digital video recording capabilities to all sorts of stuff; two, that they've taken too long to add support for high-definition TV; and three, that sooner or later DirecTV is going to drop TiVo from its set-top boxes in favor of something cheaper. We've heard all of many, many, many times before, and honestly, the arguments are starting to sound a bit like the ones we'd been hearing for years about how Apple's demise was just around the corner: that Macs are too expensive, that Apple doesn't have enough users, that Microsoft will kill them, etc. We'd like to hope that it's still possible for a company that makes a better product to survive, but we'll concede that it's going to be tough-going for TiVo these next few years.
[Via OnlineBlog]
