I had a TIVO and loved it; it is far superios to everyuthing from every provider and I have been through several sattelite & cable providers DVR systems. My 6 year old TIVO box is still superior to anything they have out now.

Tivo would have become and stayed the King if they had only made their hardware affordable. At this point there’s no excusse for asking what they do for hardware. It’s all computer hard drives anyway and with 1 Terabyte drives being less then a Tivo box, why should anyone pay the exhorbent fees that Tivo asks.

if they do move to a no-ad-skip system I will support any movement/system that works to hack around that and by pass anything they put in pace. Currently I do not normally skip ads as I find most to be enjoyable and or humorous. But if they start to FORCE them on me, removing my option to skip them, I will then make an effort to get around their technology and avoid tehir ads.

Bad move entertainment providers, BAD MOVE

Now, I know I’m not getting a TIVO. I’ll stick with my Panasonic thank you, no ads, skip button, editing software, DVD-R burner.

Do you even own a tivo?

1. No ads are “forcedfeed” to your drive, only those that you request to have sent to you through Product Watch. and the shows you record always have priority if there is a space issue.

2. The only ads you’ll need to Fast Forward through are those that are included with the shows you record from broadcast TV. And don’t be a spaz, they would be retarted to disable that feature. Thats how they got the advertisers attention in the first place.

You sound like someone who doesn’t understand the technology and has never used the service.

It isn’t truly unsolicited since it is part of the service and you effectively asked for it by being a customer, just like any other service fully or partially ad funded. That’s like calling ads in a magazine or newspaper unsolicited. And, of course, in the case of Product Watch they are solicited.

You also aren’t being forced to watch the ads. If TiVo ever does that, and I don’t believe that they will, then that’s a different story. Chicken Little style comments like the one above are irrational. People have been saying things like this since TiVo had their very first promo. People were wailing about this over 4 years ago when I got my first TiVo – it still hasn’t happened, and people are still wailing about it. Give it a rest. Slipperly slope arguments are generally pointless.

Spam is unsolicited email adverstisments and this doesn’t even bare a passing resemblence to that. The only intrusion I see is that product watch may clutter your Tivo interface screens slightly.