I Guess I’m Not The Only One Who Is Sick Of The TiVo Deathwatch
I guess I’m not the only person that thinks that the TiVo “death watch” is a bunch of garage. Thanks to PVRblog.com, I found this article over at TiVoLovers. MegaZone pretty much sums up my thoughts when he says:
It seems like predicting doom for TiVo is the latest fad, and it is damned annoying to see people spouting the same old bullshit over and over.
On a number of occasions I’ve talked about the supposed death of TiVo and how I think it has been blown out of context. For some reason or another it seems like people are always trying to find something wrong with TiVo. For example, take this article over on engadget. Is it just me or does engadget sound somewhat hypocritical? I mean, one day they love TiVo and the next day they are talking about when it is going to die. I’m not trying to say that you can’t criticize TiVo however; it just seems like somebody is always trying to find something wrong with the company. Instead of criticizing TiVo lets try and promote it. After all, is there another DVR out on the market that is better then TiVo?
March 13th, 2005 at 11:33 am |
Perhaps we should get used to the idea of this being public opinion. Apple has been fighting the same thing for 10 years, even with multiple billions of cash in the bank.
Some companies just get targeted that way. Nothing to do but ignore it.
March 16th, 2005 at 1:17 am |
How is it hypocritical for us to speak honestly about a company we like? Perhaps you would prefer that we had put our heads in the sand and pretended that nothing was wrong? Today’s news about the Comcast deal is promising, but we would have been doing our readers a disservice to have pretended that TiVo’s prospects were anything other than dim. You can certainly disagree with our assessment, but calling us hypocritical is completely disingenuous. It is not our job to “promote” TiVo–it is our job to be honest. Or perhaps you think it’s ok to toss your credibility aside in order to act as a cheerleader? I certainly expect you to call things as you see them, so don’t be upset when we do the same.
March 16th, 2005 at 7:37 am |
Peter,
It just seems like one minute you are touting TiVo as the next best thing since slice bread then in the next sentence you are digging TiVo’s grave. I’m not trying to make it sound like you guys over at engadget don’t do a great job you do. It’s just that I think you’ve been too quick to point out the flaws in TiVo.
March 19th, 2005 at 11:42 am |
First of all, being a fan of TiVo as a product does not mean that you cannot criticize TiVo as a company. Any credible journalist should be able to make that distinction. My job is not to be a cheerleader for TiVo or any other company–my job is to write honestly and critically about gadgets and technology industry. Are you seriously telling me, and the rest of your readers, that if you learned of some news that could be potentially damaging to TiVo that you would fail to report it? No, you would maintain your credibility and report both the good and the bad.
March 19th, 2005 at 2:33 pm |
True however; in my opinion it seems like engadget has been quick to point out the problems with TiVo. Hey give me a break…After all; I am probably one of the biggest TiVo enthusiasts you have ever seen :).
March 21st, 2005 at 11:39 am |
It’s fine that you’re an enthusiast and are doing this site to promote TiVo, but why should you hold us to that different standard? Engadget doesn’t exist to promote specific products or companies, it’s about speaking honestly about gadgets and consumer electronics. Wouldn’t being slow to point out TiVo’s problems be dishonest? It’s not like we give a free pass to anyone, so why should we be reluctant to report on TiVo’s business problems? We cover their products, we cover their announcements, and we cover when they have both positive and negative developments. I think you should appreciate the fact that we are willing to criticize a company that we like–it’s easy to trash a company you hate, it’s much harder to stand back and take a critical approach to a company that makes a product you love.
March 21st, 2005 at 8:06 pm |
Ok…Ok…you win :). I understand what you are saying however; in my opinion engadget has been a little hard on TiVo. In any case keep up the great work. I am about to put a post together which directly links to engadget. Maybe you aren’t being that hard on TiVo after all ;).
March 9th, 2006 at 10:43 am |
[...] Call me what you want, but I think that TiVo’s future looks promising. Often times we (meaning the community) get caught up in the media’s hype about TiVo going under. This post is meant to point out some promising items in TiVo’s future. I put a similar post together back in March ‘05 when everybody was “digging” TiVo’s grave. [...]