I am also with hmurchison on this one The home pod with streaming capacity to multiple computers and the ability to synch across computers with all owned music would be a feature that I would jump on.
Also in the new "bonjour" I would like the ability to browse others playlists not just their music. This way with the same library on my powerbook and my wife's powerbook I could use airtunes to listen to her playsists and she to mine.
Areas of note emphasis added by none other than myself.
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The Alviso, Calif.-based digital video recorder company announced Tuesday it has been issued five patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. TiVo has also been issued three grants from the Chinese and Japanese patent offices, as well as an exclusive license to one of the first DVR patents--called the Goldwasser Patent--filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company has a considerable number of patents, 70 so far with 106 still pending, but it hasn't been able to translate its intellectual property to significant financial success.
Holy smokes a potential 176 patents But they can't defend their patents and the larger companies know this.
Google buying Tivo would be an interesting prospect. However I think they are fairly tied to just being on the computer desktop. I'm still eagerly awaiting the Google Browser however.
Google buying Tivo would be an interesting prospect. However I think they are fairly tied to just being on the computer desktop. I'm still eagerly awaiting the Google Browser however.
From what I read you already have it it is called firefox. The lead programmer is with Google.
An interesting idea, seeing how Google now has video.google.com, a really nifty search tool. I think the only reason Google would buy TiVo is for their experience in archiving video, I doubt Google would look into the device side of the business much.
Online entertainment worldwide is expected to increase threefold in five years, driven primarily by Internet television offered by telecommunications companies, a market research firm said Friday.
Online entertainment worldwide is expected to increase threefold in five years, driven primarily by Internet television offered by telecommunications companies, a market research firm said Friday.
All the major telecommunications companies, including Verizon Communications, SBC Communications and BellSouth, have announced plans to roll out IPTV services in major metropolitan areas, in order to combat competition from cable companies offering Internet telephone services.
Apple needs a video presence to boost its consumer electronics side. Even as you sold 10 million iPods, Americans acquired 7 million DVRs. The iPod is great for music, but extending it to other applications is problematic. You know video--QuickTime and your editing software, Final Cut Pro, prove that--but to reach mass acceptance, you must deal with television, and that means a digital video recorder. You could innovate further with TiVo's well-loved brand and patents, creating a portable video player, a video download service like Akimbo's, and a TiVo application for the Macintosh. And you could build on TiVo's experience with subscriptions to create a subscription music service.
TiVo is worth more to you than to other companies. Cable and satellite companies already have DVR offerings--even TiVo's partner DirecTV is bringing out its own non-TiVo recorder. Consumer electronics brands like Sony, facing softness in their core market and fierce competition from PC companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard, won't have the stomach for a money-losing acquisition like TiVo. But at a market cap of $350 million, TiVo is well within Apple's reach; TiVo-branded Apple products could generate hundreds of millions in revenue in the next few years.
I'm skeptical about the chances for a company like Tivo to survive. The cable and satellite companies will want to have proprietary hardware that they can control. They will make life difficult for any third party vendors to gain a foothold.
To make a Tivo-like device might take 20 engineers working for a year? Tops?That is about $2M. Not very much.
Setting up an interactive service? Apple already has an on-line store and iTMS. They have the infrastructure and know-how to make this happen.
Finding 3M customers? Apple has an on-line store and over 100 physical stores plus they have distribution through Best Buy and others. Not to mention legions of fans who would talk up such a product if not buy it themselves.
Except possibly for the patents, I doubt Apple would buy Tivo.
The bigger issue is finding a way to establish a successful business in this market. With the switch to digital I think the carriers will want to have much more control of delivery all the way through video recorders.
iSight will be HD in name only. In addition to recording at HD resolution you need a lens and CCD/CMOS that supports HD resolution. I don't see this happening.
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Also iSight is marketed mainly for videoconferencing (stick it on your monitor), not an area where HD would have much value. (hey see this is Future Hardware after all)
I agree. I guess I'm more interested in knowing that Apple is going to head in the DVR direction and buying Tivo would answer that questions.
I'm not buying Tivo's pipe dreams that their Netflix partnership or internet content is going to keep them afloat. Hell Apple has a tight relationship with Akamai and the infrastructure, as you mention, to get into that market whenever they want.
I'm impatient..the year is barely %25 over and I'm wanting to know the future. Apple has something cool coming and it's killing me to wait.
The Scientific Atlanta DVRs that Time-Warner Cable and others are offering may well be "the best available option at the moment" largely because of the dual tuners, but they are, at best, crude instruments with many, many fundamental flaws which should have been fixed before the first one was shipped. The image quality is inconsistent and generally mediocre with a lot of "tiling"/signal breakup.
Tivo has a long way to go, too.
The bottom line is that the market is still wide open for a GOOD product.
The Scientific Atlanta DVR sucks. I use a Drirect Tv Sony DVR with a much slicker interface. The SA unit is not only more confusing it lags. And the record forward functioning is also sub standard
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I am also with hmurchison on this one The home pod with streaming capacity to multiple computers and the ability to synch across computers with all owned music would be a feature that I would jump on.
Also in the new "bonjour" I would like the ability to browse others playlists not just their music. This way with the same library on my powerbook and my wife's powerbook I could use airtunes to listen to her playsists and she to mine.
Areas of note emphasis added by none other than myself.
The Alviso, Calif.-based digital video recorder company announced Tuesday it has been issued five patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. TiVo has also been issued three grants from the Chinese and Japanese patent offices, as well as an exclusive license to one of the first DVR patents--called the Goldwasser Patent--filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company has a considerable number of patents, 70 so far with 106 still pending, but it hasn't been able to translate its intellectual property to significant financial success.
Holy smokes a potential 176 patents
I seriously doubt that apple is the one to take them out. Unless it is shopping for patents.
But why Apple and not say Google?
But why Apple and not say Google?
Shudder. Speak of no such things TednDi. LOL.
Google buying Tivo would be an interesting prospect. However I think they are fairly tied to just being on the computer desktop. I'm still eagerly awaiting the Google Browser however.
Originally posted by hmurchison
Shudder. Speak of no such things TednDi. LOL.
Google buying Tivo would be an interesting prospect. However I think they are fairly tied to just being on the computer desktop. I'm still eagerly awaiting the Google Browser however.
From what I read you already have it it is called firefox. The lead programmer is with Google.
http://news.com.com/Google+snaps+up+...3-5548682.html
http://www.tuaw.com/entry/1234000683033993/
But why Apple and not say Google?
An interesting idea, seeing how Google now has video.google.com, a really nifty search tool. I think the only reason Google would buy TiVo is for their experience in archiving video, I doubt Google would look into the device side of the business much.
Online entertainment worldwide is expected to increase threefold in five years, driven primarily by Internet television offered by telecommunications companies, a market research firm said Friday.
Online entertainment worldwide is expected to increase threefold in five years, driven primarily by Internet television offered by telecommunications companies, a market research firm said Friday.
All the major telecommunications companies, including Verizon Communications, SBC Communications and BellSouth, have announced plans to roll out IPTV services in major metropolitan areas, in order to combat competition from cable companies offering Internet telephone services.
Options options options.
Forrester says "Apple buy Tivo"
Apple needs a video presence to boost its consumer electronics side. Even as you sold 10 million iPods, Americans acquired 7 million DVRs. The iPod is great for music, but extending it to other applications is problematic. You know video--QuickTime and your editing software, Final Cut Pro, prove that--but to reach mass acceptance, you must deal with television, and that means a digital video recorder. You could innovate further with TiVo's well-loved brand and patents, creating a portable video player, a video download service like Akimbo's, and a TiVo application for the Macintosh. And you could build on TiVo's experience with subscriptions to create a subscription music service.
TiVo is worth more to you than to other companies. Cable and satellite companies already have DVR offerings--even TiVo's partner DirecTV is bringing out its own non-TiVo recorder. Consumer electronics brands like Sony, facing softness in their core market and fierce competition from PC companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard, won't have the stomach for a money-losing acquisition like TiVo. But at a market cap of $350 million, TiVo is well within Apple's reach; TiVo-branded Apple products could generate hundreds of millions in revenue in the next few years.
Think different. Buy TiVo.
Nuff said
To make a Tivo-like device might take 20 engineers working for a year? Tops?That is about $2M. Not very much.
Setting up an interactive service? Apple already has an on-line store and iTMS. They have the infrastructure and know-how to make this happen.
Finding 3M customers? Apple has an on-line store and over 100 physical stores plus they have distribution through Best Buy and others. Not to mention legions of fans who would talk up such a product if not buy it themselves.
Except possibly for the patents, I doubt Apple would buy Tivo.
The bigger issue is finding a way to establish a successful business in this market. With the switch to digital I think the carriers will want to have much more control of delivery all the way through video recorders.
Originally posted by hmurchison
iSight will be HD in name only. In addition to recording at HD resolution you need a lens and CCD/CMOS that supports HD resolution. I don't see this happening.
...
Also iSight is marketed mainly for videoconferencing (stick it on your monitor), not an area where HD would have much value. (hey see this is Future Hardware after all)
I agree. I guess I'm more interested in knowing that Apple is going to head in the DVR direction and buying Tivo would answer that questions.
I'm not buying Tivo's pipe dreams that their Netflix partnership or internet content is going to keep them afloat. Hell Apple has a tight relationship with Akamai and the infrastructure, as you mention, to get into that market whenever they want.
I'm impatient..the year is barely %25 over and I'm wanting to know the future. Apple has something cool coming and it's killing me to wait.
Tivo has a long way to go, too.
The bottom line is that the market is still wide open for a GOOD product.