Will Someone Please Buy TiVo?
Saturday, October 28th, 2006PVR Wire wrote an interesting post on Who will buy TiVo? Google, Yahoo or Microsoft?
Let me start this with the fact that I LOVE TiVo. However, the lack of a viable HD product has led me to use the PVR in the set-top box from Time Warner. I hate it, but I have no choice. None-the-less, I still have my TiVo which I use as a music server to get my tunes from my PC to my entertainment system. It’s slicker than anything else out there, trust me, I’ve tried them.
Now, on with my point. I want TiVo to survive. I think it has major opportunities that it has not been able to capitalize on:
- The set-top box that integrates audio, video, PCs, and the Internet in the living room.
- It could change the way that audio and video is monetized by content owners and distributors.
- It could change they way that audio and video is distributed by content owners - pay-per-view, video on demand, stored content that can be moved to various devices, etc.
I want this device BAD. PVR Wire has their arguments on who is most likely to buy TiVo - they believe it will be Yahoo or Google. I want it to be Yahoo or Apple. Yahoo seems to be able to integrate a variety of Internet content and could really use TiVo rather than screwing around with their own vaporware product. Apple would be great because they’d be able to avoid screwing up TiVo’s incredible UI (they might even be able to improve it) and they have done very well with integrating various types of content on various devices.
Whether it’s Yahoo or Apple, please let it happen.
