6 Responses for "One Feature to Rule Them All"

1. Sully February 22nd, 2007 at 11:06 am 1

   TiVo.

2. Glenn February 22nd, 2007 at 2:43 pm 2

   The absence of the equivalent feature, i.e. multiroom viewing, on the Tivo Series 3 continues to chafe a lot of us who would otherwise buy one…

   Course Whole Home DVR means only one extra $5/month rental (presumably) and being able to watch it anywhere, on a regular STB. Don’t know if the phrase “Whole Home DVR” means transcode from HD to SD though. For Tivo users, assuming they ever enable this, its the purchase of a second Tivo unit and at least $6.95/mo if you commit to 3 years?

3. MegaZone February 23rd, 2007 at 1:46 am 3

   How about licensing the TiVo OCAP software?

   Of those choices – whole-home DVR is the only one that seems worthwhile to me. Maybe multiple HD streams – if I weren’t single and living alone. (Not worth it to me.)

4. Dave Zatz February 23rd, 2007 at 7:12 am 4

   I’d take the built-in placeshifting first — It’s sort of a whole home (and way beyond) DVR.

   If they had listed it… I’d take the Xbox 360 as IPTV set-top box and DVR first.

5. Mari Silbey February 23rd, 2007 at 10:21 am 5

   “I’d take the built-in placeshifting first…”

   Yeah, but you work for Sling!

6. Dave Zatz February 23rd, 2007 at 2:52 pm 6

   Good point… Maybe I need to get someone from AT&T and Motorola on the phone and broker a deal.