Comments on: Why is TiVo.com selling Slingboxes?

By: Ephraim Cohen

Ephraim Cohen — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:09:54 +0000

So now with Tivo and Slingbox you can watch what you want, where you want and when you want to. Is Tivo becoming an IPTV company?

By: Schumann

Schumann — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:29:49 +0000

Nice!

And I agree on the Rewards idea. Keep it under 40K points (what I now have saved up)

I used Orb for a while, but was less-than-satisfied, on the whole. Even though it worked on my GSM phone with MPEG4 conversion/uploads straight off the TiVo NPL! Not quite the same as Sling, of course, but adequate … because watching TiVo shows is ALL I envision myself doing on any such device.

By: Mari Silbey

Mari Silbey — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:11:49 +0000

There’s bound to be a lot of consolidation among time-shifting and place-shifting devices in the next few years. I guess it doesn’t hurt to make friends now and bank a little leveraging power.

By: peteypete

peteypete — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:27:56 +0000

Good question dave. I wish Tivo built the fuctionality into their boxes. But tivo seems extra risk adverse at the moment and seems to not want to wade into additional legal minefield that some think slingbox is playing in. Although personally I don’t think it’s really going to be an issue.

Also, it pains me to see Tivo ceding mojo to youtube and sling on stuff they obviously should leverage and get buzz for. What happened to the days of cross seeding startups? (oh yeah, .bomb blowup!)

Co-sales seems lame, although the two go together like peanut butter and jelly. I don’t see Tivo boxes on slingmedia.com

By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:54:00 +0000

I’ve got 60,000 rewards points sitting there. I’ve been just sitting on them, figuring I’ll eventually hit the 85,000 for a Series3. But if they put the Slingbox Pro up, I’d likely bite. Especially if the promised PalmOS client ever shows up.