"DVR service TiVo"
DVR "Service"?
Their 'service' is 99% Keep-Alive flag and 1% TV Guide data.
One of the most mind-boggling business models ever conceived.
Doubly mind-boggling: someone actually thought it up, and people actually pay for it.
TiVo sells for $1.1bn
DVR service TiVo has been acquired by Rovi for $1.1bn. Rovi, a company specializing in TV guide and analytics services, said it would be paying $10.70 per share to acquire TiVo. It hopes that the combination of Rovi and TiVo services will lead to the creation of both OTT video and TV services for consumers as well as TV …
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Sunday 1st May 2016 22:23 GMT Hugh McIntyre
Re: "DVR service TiVo" @JeffyPoooh
At least when they started TiVo did indeed sell DVRs, and (along with ReplayTV) were the first to commercialize many of the concepts behind a DVR. In the past their user interface tended to get better reviews than the cable company in-house DVRs. As such the buyer is probably buying a bunch of patents, although the key ones may not have too much time remaining if they were filed when TiVo started back in 1999.
But then they suffered because the satellite/cable companies chose to build their own DVRs rather than paying a TiVo tax.
For a while though, the non-TiVo DVR's were generally clunky presumably because of not being able to use some features that TiVo or Replay may have patented, which sucked for end users put presumably helped TiVo get bought.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
