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Why TiVo Owners Can't Shut Up
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 18:09:57 -0700
------ Forwarded Message From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> [Note: This item comes from reader Monty Solomon. If Tivo is "God's machine" according to Michael Powell, I guess that makes the ReplayTV "Satan's machine" according to the Hollywood cartel. As a ReplayTV owner, I'd say that the Tivo is a pale shadow of the ReplayTV in terms of features. If it wasn't then you can be sure that the cartel would have dragged it into court by now. DLH] At 21:45 -0700 4/19/03, Monty Solomon wrote:
From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Subject: Why TiVo Owners Can't Shut Up Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:45:01 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 April 20, 2003 Why TiVo Owners Can't Shut Up By WARREN ST. JOHN TO hear his friends tell it, Matt Smith is an easygoing guy. A recently engaged business consultant from Charlotte, N.C., Mr. Smith, 31, is a casual fan of golf, Nascar and Wake Forest basketball. But there is one subject his friends are loath to bring up around him, for fear it will provoke one of his prolonged sermons on its myriad virtues: the television gadget TiVo. "I'd say he brings it up every time we're together," said Fran Radano, a college pal who has resisted Mr. Smith's efforts to convert him to TiVo. "There's usually someone in the group who's new to his preaching. It's highly annoying." Not since the PalmPilot debuted in 1996 has a new electronic contraption sparked a cultlike following and so many zealous proselytizers. Type the phrase "TiVo changed my life" into Google, and you will summon an afternoon's worth of reading (including the observation that there are "as many TiVo-praise Web sites out there as there are hairs on Robin Williams"). Michael Powell, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, once called TiVo "God's machine." TiVo has around 700,000 subscribers - a tiny fraction of American television viewers, 70 percent of whom have never even heard of TiVo, according to Josh Bernoff, an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass. But, Mr. Bernoff said, TiVo's fans are a vocal minority. ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/fashion/20TIVO.html>
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