. Given that most Tivo owners don't have HDTVs, it suggests you don't know what people value in a DVR.
actually, i know quite well. i had a great DVR from Dish Network. it was from a few years ago, before the cable operators "outlawed" all the 300x fast forward and commercial jump buttons on their OEM DVRs. one great thing about this DVR was that it could feed 3 separate TVs, and was controllable via UHF remotes. so, it was great even though it was standard TV. i would still be using it but Dish doesn't carry the Tennis Channel :(
a big attraction to me of Tivo is that there are a bunch of hacks so that you can enable high-speed FF as well as commercial jumping. the cable cos have disabled these hacks on the latest Sci Atlanta pieces of garbage.
but, it seems positively neanderthal to me that you can't use a UHF remote with Tivo, which i could do with Dish like 7 years ago! obviously, the reason for this is to force you to buy multiple units, preferably one for each TV.
so, don't tell me that i don't know about DVRs and standard TV.
Given that most Tivo owners don't have HDTVs, it suggests you don't know what people value in a DVR.
you seem to be unaware of your tunnel vision here--you think that "most Tivo owners" is the same thing as what "people value in a DVR". but you forget that most people who use TVs, and people who use DVRs! are not Tivo owners. and, you seem to not realize how much better HDTV is, presumably because you do not have an HDTV and HDTV service.
since i have experienced both worlds, i can tell you that most people will definitely prefer HDTV, and will curtail their "consumption" of regular crap TV.
not the key factor for J6P. Being able to store dozens of hours of shows and use intelligent PVR functionality
but, again, you seem not to realize that the Tivo afficionado is not exactly J6P. if J6P was truly the Tivo afficionado, Tivo would have 20 million subscribers.
frankly, J6P is the guy who uses the Sci Atlanta piece of crap from his cable co (that would include me!).
J6P households have 2.4 perfectly good color TV sets, they are not about to pay $1,000+ to replace those sets.
and yet they are going to pay $600 for a Tivo box with lifetime subscription? and do that for each and every one of their 2.4 TVs?
DVR adoption is going to be like DVD player adoption
the problem with DVR adoption is that you have the middleman--the cableco--who screws things up.
HDTV adoption is IMO *very unlikely* to have anywhere near as rapid adoption
i never said it was going to be the same. but that doesn't mean it's not important. |
