Apple TiVo??

[zwheeloc]

MacOSRumors is reporting a TiVo like device as the next digital lifestyle. I wonder how Apple will make it better... Besides making it a lot more intuitive, of course.
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[uoba]

I think they are getting bored again over at good ol' mosr

[cwoody222]

This has been debunked before...but MAN I wish it's true.

I LOVE TiVo and LOVE my iMac...tying the two together would be pure bliss!!!

[cclear]

This came out at macworld... Sounds pretty TIVO to me!!

http://www.elgato.com/eyeTV/index.html

Eye TV Digital Video Recorder frees you from TV schedules. Find and track all the programming you want to see, and watch it whenever you want to. Pause live television. Skip commercials. Record your favorite shows permanently using your CD burner. EyeTV will change the way you watch television.

[cwoody222]

"EyeTV will change the way you watch television."

No...it changes the way I watch my computer.

I want a BOX that I put on my TV.
(actually I already have quite a few...two TiVo's and one ReplayTV - soon to be two)

I don't want my computer turned into a TV.

While cool, EyeTV does the latter.

[Matrix Agent]

Right now it's too risky of a market. PVR's are under fire from the television industry because they ruin advertising revenues. IF Apple was to enter the market, I don't applying a sticker that says "Don't skip commercials" or "Don't record copyrighted material" would work like it did on the iPod.

[chemistry_geek]

Originally posted by Matrix Agent
Right now it's too risky of a market. PVR's are under fire from the television industry because they ruin advertising revenues. IF Apple was to enter the market, I don't applying a sticker that says "Don't skip commercials" or "Don't record copyrighted material" would work like it did on the iPod.

I disagree that the TiVo RUINS advertising revenues. The advertisers have absolutely no idea what I do when an advertisement comes on during a television show. I go and get a beverage and a snack. Whether or not I have a TiVo, I'm going to MISS the advertisement. Why? Because American television programming has become so predictable, that almost everyone knows the length of time advertisements run during a show, a good 3 to 4 minutes. That's enough time for a brief potty break, grab a snak, and talk to the person next to you what you plan to do for the next day. What do these avertisers think, Americans are too lazy to do something else besides waste time watching an advertisement? Time is too precious in today's society. People multitask morethan ever. If we don't want to see an advertisement, we aren't going to see it.

The first 7 to 10 minutes of a REAL MOVIE is filled with whats cming out in 6 months, along with the Pepsi commercials, etc...a perfect time to get a popcorn. Everone thinks they're going to miss the beginning of the movie. Not so.

The advertises have no right to complain, they PAID for the advertisement and it was broadcast as promised. Whether or not it was seen, well, that's different. Regardless of how many people see the advertisement, the advertisers are paying for AIR TIME, not EYE BALLS. They can't make us watch it.

[Javintosh]

I think this will be less and less of an issue as product placement moves into the small screen. I read an article about it (which I can't locate anymore) which stated that the reason people in the show Sex and the City (pardon if the title is not corretc, I don't have cable) are always yapping in the phone is because Motorola is a sponsor...