TiVo has... something to announce March 2 in NYC

Saying "Inventing the DVR was just a warmup" raises our expectations quite a bit for TiVo's upcoming event in New York City. From the locked down nature of the company's CES presence there's definitely something in the works, but save for some leaked TiVo Premiere manuals and a curious shortage at its own store our imaginations are left wide open to assume how far we can go. While our DVRs will only reveal the final answers at the end of May, TiVo will only have us on the hook until March 2 at 6 p.m., consider our calendars marked.

[Jordan Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:12PM]

Updated software and menus for all TiVo's. C'mon TiVo I know you can do it!

[jeremyz Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:15PM]

Maybe they're announcing the "screeching green screen crash" is expanding from its pilot run in NYC to a nationwide program.

Tivo's decline has made me sad.

[Icehawk Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:17PM]

Updated hardware, goddamn I love my Tivo but it is slow as hell.

More tuners never hurts although honestly it is pretty rare I need more than 2.

Tru2way or whatever so I can get OnDemand working.

Would be sweet if it had Hulu access too...

Also they typically allow you to transfer your lifetime subscription, I think I had to pay $100 last time to do so.

[jedi Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:51PM]

@Icehawk

Tivo extenders with no extra monthly fee would be better.

[zangetsu2 Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:24PM]

Not sure why you guys are expecting an updated DVR. If "inventing the DVR was just a warmup" this is going to be a revolutionary new DVR (wireless everything or 3D or something crazy) or, more likely, TiVo branching out into a new venture, like starting their own TV service.

About an improved DVR: my only problem with TiVo was they needed a remote where I can turn on/off my receiver, and maybe a bigger hard drive or a way to upgrade the hard drive.

[arkweld Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:29PM]

TiVo buys Netflix.

[gsaj Posted Feb 11th 2010 4:48PM]

@arkweld You have not considered market capitalization:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TIVO
vs.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NFLX
In short, NetFlix's is 3x higher (as of today), so it is much to expensive for that buyout to be possible.

[kschroppe Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:40PM]

I have an old Panisonic unit made for replay I think that there were no Tivo's around when I bought my unit it only recorded 10 hours before I changed the hard drive oh yea I NEVER paid a dime for service. Just the price of the unit.

[AlokC Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:49PM]

Merge TivoHD with HD Media Player (like OPlay/WDTV), top it up with XBMC and wolla you have an awesome one stop entertainment system.
Ofcourse faster processor and media streaming will help too!!

[trainwrecka Posted Feb 11th 2010 2:55PM]

Lifetime TiVo + OTA = Great Success

[IanKen Posted Feb 11th 2010 3:00PM]

Unless it's a quad tuner cablecard device with a UI that doesn't look like the 1990s, I don't care.

FiOSTV rocks on my Win7 MCE rig. It'd take an epic win from TiVO to get me to bend over for an additional monthly fee.

[cckrobinson Posted Feb 11th 2010 3:12PM]

Here are my predictions:
1. Tivo will announce a new DVR that has 4 tuners and 1 TB internal storage.
2. They will officially announce a release date for the DirecTV Tivo DVR.
3. They will announce a newly enhanced Tivo user interface.
4. They will announce a cross licensing deal with Dish Network. Tivo gets Dish's slingbox technology (please!!!) and Dish gets to "legally" record one show while watching another. I know I'm dreaming, but a sling enabled Tivo would be sweet.

[7710user Posted Feb 11th 2010 3:15PM]

Tivo returns to the UK on Virgin cable? Oh wait, announcement in USA.. never mind..

I wish Virgin would hurry up and provide some more details.. It's been 8 long years, Tivo.. UK wants a new product *drool*

[jordanbiffle Posted Feb 11th 2010 3:18PM]

TiVO store to directly compete with iTunes and Apple TV.

[Dale P Posted Feb 11th 2010 3:26PM]

I would love to just plug my cable into a TiVo without a CableCard or receiver in the middle. If TiVo can broker that deal with Xfinitycomcastthing I will be happy.

[radarskiy Posted Feb 11th 2010 3:45PM]

@Dale P : And a pony. Comcast should definitely give us a pony.

[charlie x Posted Feb 11th 2010 4:38PM]

They're making a bigger version with less features.

[Bratan Posted Feb 11th 2010 4:45PM]

@charlie x

iTivoPAD? :)

[hungarianhc Posted Feb 11th 2010 4:45PM]

I love my TiVo... I'm hoping they release an improved UI, streamlined hardware, and better integration with web content.

[Bratan Posted Feb 11th 2010 4:45PM]

What would it be? A drop in subscription price? A support for USB keyboard (to make YouTube searchable)? One can only hope :)

[Jaylittles531 Posted Feb 11th 2010 4:45PM]

Wasn't aware people still used TiVo....

[jedi Posted Feb 11th 2010 4:55PM]

@Jaylittles531

My MythTV rig recorded a show on 90s tech last week. Tivo was in there.

[acslater017 Posted Feb 11th 2010 5:23PM]

iTablet! iTablet! iTablet!!!

[blampright Posted Feb 11th 2010 5:49PM]

DVR Just a WarmUp??
hmmm...total shot in the dark prediction here:

Social Bandwagon: Facebook and Twitter Integration
Web Browser (Firefox or Webkit)
Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
3D Built in
2-way cable (On Demand)

Now that we all have 1080p HDTV's it makes sense to bring webTV back...I can actually read text on my HDTV.

[MacIdol Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:24PM]

My predictions; New UI, New Media Center features with the ability to move the most popular file formats of your movies and tv shows from various sources to the TiVo, and a much broader integration/partnership with Netflix. Think, Boxee (hulu, youtube, socialnetnausium, etc) with a cablecard and DVR functionality with streaming Netflix.

[wtgig Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:49PM]

holycrap what are they going to come out with now???? hahaha

[brennok Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:21PM]

My predictions:
-New UI
-New chipset allowing faster processing including faster transfers
-larger harddrive...figure the RCN model is supposed to come with 320gb
-also streams content
-New remote
-Official Hulu support and integration...recent facebook Tivo question and look where the announcement is points to this possibly

My wishes which probably won't come true
A Tivo Home Server with
-3+ tuners
-1TB standard
-cooperative scheduling
-true2way

One other longshot possibility.
Nero no longer sells liquidtv and Tivo has wanted out of the hardware business for years. Ceton will soon offer the hardware which would make this possible and the DRM is already supported by cable labs from Ceton, Windows, and Tivo. Also one of the Ceton testers recently got a new toy to play with but can't say what it is.

[badwolf42 Posted Feb 11th 2010 8:29PM]

I doubt it will be a new DVR unless it's got some killer feature like being sling loaded. I would agree that it might be a TV service. Maybe there'll be an iTunes integration where you can purchase shows? It just seems like they're taking about a new service of some sort.
A UI refresh isn't out of the question, but I would think it would be in support of something else. Maybe it will bring Vudu integration? They've said they want to be on every device and not just their own.
I just hope they don't make a bad decision like trying to bring a new piece of hardware to market like a PMP that is made for TiVo or something like that.

[Peter Fox Posted Feb 12th 2010 10:39PM]

Suggested feature for Tivo: allow me to change a given Season Pass's priority based on day of the week. To give an example of where this would be useful - Simpsons reruns play throughout the week, but the new episodes are on Sundays, so allow me to set it up where a given program can supersede Simpsons during the week if necessary, but on Sunday I want Simpsons to take priority. If the other show isn't on during the week then it's Simpsons as usual... You can call it Season Pass Thermostat.

[brexb Posted Feb 28th 2010 4:49PM]

Why is there not yet a commoditized DVR out there yet? I am looking for a basic DVR for recording over-the-air broadcasts. Paying a subscription seems so last decade to me.

[normychas Posted Mar 2nd 2010 12:27PM]

will there be coverage of this event today somewhere?

[techchef Posted Mar 2nd 2010 3:19PM]

Does anyone know if this is EST, PST?

BTW a couple weeks ago I received a letter from Cox saying they were discontinuing the use of cable cards or something to that effect (I've misplaced the letter, I can't remember exactly how it went) and that they worked with TiVo and that by march 18th I think it was that I had to pick up some kind of adapter unit from one of the Cox stores. Of course,I haven't picked it up yet, but this might have something to do with the announcement today I'm guessing...

I'm in Phoenix, AZ btw