TiVo and Time Warner apparently discussing DVR deal
TiVo is already in cahoots with Comcast and DirecTV, and a deal with Time Warner would get its software in front of another 13+ million potential subscribers. Representatives from TiVo and Time Warner have refused to comment on the discussions that Time Warner’s COO Landel Hobbs said had been taking place during a recent conference call.
If the deal comes to pass, Time Warner could learn some things from Comcast’s TiVo rollout here in the New England area. I finally gave up on Comcast TiVo after a year and a half and over twenty dead cable boxes. It just never really worked right. I’d have a working box for a month or two, at most, and then it’d just stop recording shows and I wouldn’t be able to delete any previous shows.
Or the live TV would just stop working. Or the box would just reboot itself over and over again in and endless loop. I finally just bought an actual TiVo box for the main room and now I have the plain old Comcast DVR in the bedroom. I miss the TiVo interface tremendously, but at least the box is stable.