As a recent TiVo 2 purchaser, I cannot do more than add to the chorus of praises lavished on this novel technology. It's a snap to connect through your home WiFi network for daily updates, and connecting to your home server with all the digital family photos takes a couple of minutes. Sure, I had the same problems that others reported. The first program I recorded and gave a "thumbs up" to was a Discovery channel show on the Everglades. Since then TiVo has filled the hard drive with every single nature program from National Geographic to Zoboomafoo.
The article in today's NYTimes (below, registration required) describes a natural step that would seem to be much more powerful than the traditional, Nielsen ratings system. If only TiVo could have unique user logins like Mac OSX and Windows XP, with unique lists of shows.
TiVo Plans to Sell Information on Customers' Viewing Habits. TiVo, the maker of digital video recorders, is starting to sell information about the viewing patterns of its customers to advertisers. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]
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