Yesterday it was the Senate Judiciary Committee approving a legislative bundle that would, in part, mandate the viewing of commercials. Today, PVRblog reports that TiVo has gotten into the act with a plan to display banner ads when the digital video recorder’s fast-forward feature is used.
That button that you use the most on your TiVo? It just got sold out from under you.
My crappy Toshiba TiVo—which is immune to the 30 second skip hack but doesn’t require the paid TiVo service—died within a month of owning it, and we use it less than five hours a week. In fact, when I took it apart to see if I could at least rescue the DVD in the drive, I found that more than a few of the traces on the logic board appeared to be hand-wired.
It looks to me like I’ll be going back to BitTorrent for my West Wing fix.
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