To: $Mogul who wrote (43683 ) 12/13/1999 3:12:00 AM From: vagabond Respond to
(OT) Re TIVO: Without venturing any opinion on how the stock will do in the near-term, I must say that I have a hard time understanding the enthusiasm for the product itself. Guess I must be horribly old-fashioned, but nothing I've read about TIVO so far convinces me that it's better than a VCR for the way I and most other people I know like to record programs.removable/replaceable drive that allowed one to record several hours of programs, pull out the drive to save it for future viewing at one's leisure, and then stick in a new (and economical) drive to record further programs. In other words, if it offered the kind of storage-versatility of videotapes. And maybe that's in the works, down-the-road. But for now, as I understand it, you can only record 14 hours or so or programming (30 with some models) before the hard-drive is filled -- and then you HAVE to start watching (or erasing) some of it in order to clear space for additional recordings. Not very flexible, to my mind (I can easily record 10-12 hours of stuff in a single week, which I might want to watch weeks or months later -- but don't want to be forced to "view it or lose it" in order to be able to record additional material).tempted to think most people won't find them as attractive as the manufacturers hope...
