Only 20% Of TiVo Users Own A Series 2 Device?
The other day while I was going through my excessive amount of news feeds (73+) I noticed that ars technica states that only 20% of all TiVo users own a Series 2 device. I’m not sure where ars technica got this information but from what I’ve seen the site seems to be reputable. Is this really the case?
Out of the remaining 80%, how many of these users own a DirecTiVo? How many own a Series1 device? If anyone has any more information I’d like to see it. To be honest, I would have expected the Series2 percentage to be a lot higher. I’ve never owned a Series1 or DirecTiVo DVR, however, from what I’ve seen the Series2 devices are a lot better. Just curious and confused…
November 12th, 2005 at 1:39 pm |
I’d have a really hard time believing this is true. TiVo didn’t really get all that big, as far as I knew, until the Series 2 came out.
November 12th, 2005 at 2:05 pm |
I own a Series One and a DirecTV HDTV unit. I always get bummed out everytime I hear about something cool that they are adding that only the Series Two people get to enjoy. Of course I’m not about to go out and buy a Series Two unit when it can’t support HDTV and only has a single tuner.
November 12th, 2005 at 3:18 pm |
I really can’t believe that figure, just from the subscriber figures they report every quarter.
November 12th, 2005 at 10:10 pm |
I have a very difficult time giving any creedance to that. I know many tivo owners of which 90% have Series 2 and the other 10% have DirectTV tivo units. I personally own 3 Series 2 Tivo units.
November 13th, 2005 at 11:10 am |
I have a series one Tivo. I have no interest in the series 2 because I no longer have an interest in Tivo.
I liked it but can no longer justify the $13 per month price tag (and will not invest in a lifetime subscription due to quality of unit issues and the company’s $$ position). I understand this is where the profits come from but against competion like Moxi, SageTV, BeyondTV, and MythTV less people are likely to invest in a subscription. I’ve seen Windows Media Center PCs for $400 and self created Myth boxes for less.
I now have a Moxi box with dual turners that I rent for $10 per month. What I do, however, miss is the clean interface Tivo had, it crashed less (like never), and it had a much better search engine to find programming by cateogories.
At $50 with a one year membership I would purchase it if it had dual turners. Maybe even pay slightly more for the unit. Most of the programming I do watch is usually on at the same time and I want a solution that is at one television instead of having boxes all over the house. Just my opinion though.
November 14th, 2005 at 11:04 am |
I’m not surprised that most TiVo users don’t have Series 2 units.
I added a second box (a series 2) to my home during one of TiVo’s recent pricebreaks, and it’s been nothing but a disappointment. The USB ports are slow, the HME features are buggy, and most important, the video quality coming out of the TiVo is much, much, MUCH lower than that of my Series 1 Sony TiVo.
I wish I’d never bought the thing.
November 22nd, 2005 at 6:57 am |
I, for one, have a series 1 tivo. I like it. . .(Its upgraded ot 90mb). If I get a new Tivo I want High DEF.
November 29th, 2005 at 4:44 pm |
I have a series 1 (14hr upgraded to 80GB and ethernet) that I no longer subscribe, and a DirecTivo I currently use. I’ll upgrade when there’s a dual-tuner HD, or when DirecTV switches SD programming to mpeg4.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:50 pm |
I have two DirectTivo’s. I know 3 or 4 other people who own one or more DirectTivo’s.
I know three people who have SA Tivo’s and they all have Series 1 Tivo’s.
I guess that would put my polling stats at 0% Series 2.