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By: TiVoBlog.com » Blog Archive » It’s Official, TiVo To Partner With Comcast

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:45:15 +0000

[...] omcast (Reuters). This is obviously big news for TiVo. I’ve said a number of times (1, 2) that TiVo needed to setup a deal with a major c [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:19:50 +0000

How do we know that they haven�t been trying to do deals with the cable companies? It might be impossible due to cables lack of inovation and future thinking�

I’m not saying that they haven’t tried. All I’m saying is that they haven’t been successful up until this point….

By: bob

bob — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:18:41 +0000

How do we know that they haven’t been trying to do deals with the cable companies? It might be impossible due to cables lack of inovation and future thinking…

By: Will

Will — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:57:08 +0000

Yeah it’s true. In an article I read recently, Bill Gates invested $5B in Comcast.

Two days later, Roberts received a call from Microsoft’s CFO, who said that Gates had asked him to explore Roberts’ idea. “Thirty days later, they put $1 billion into our company just to send a message that they thought broadband was the future. It was a shot heard round the world in our business.” Microsoft later raised its stake to $5 billion. Since then, the cable industry has invested $85 billion in the installation of fiber optics. Today, it provides 55% of the country’s broadband service.

source: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1069

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:38:31 +0000

I didn’t know that Micro$oft owned a piece of Comcast. I will have to look into that…

By: Xueilonox

Xueilonox — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:11:23 +0000

Doesn’t Microsoft own a piece of Comcast? If so, then this really isn’t a “win” for Microsoft, it’s an obvious move. One they probably should have exploited earlier. It’s apparent that the cable guys aren’t going to let another company sit between them and their customers. My guess is that Tivo doesn’t want to take a back seat and have been shut out to this point. Short of building customized Tivo’s for each operator and then surrendering control of the tracking data, I’m not sure what they can do to turn it around.

By: TheFigs Weblog

TheFigs Weblog — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 04:31:30 +0000

Will Microsoft Kill Tivo?
The Seattle Times reports some details about the new deal with Microsoft and Comcast. The new dual-tuner digital recievers will be released in Washington State first. It will alow users to have “Tivo-like” functionality. This could hurt Tivo signific…