Poor TiVo. We love the lil guy, but he just continues to receive bad press for almost everything he does. I’ve been meaning to check out the HME SDK for TiVo and it appears that Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of the PHP scripting language, already has:

Another annoying thing is that the recorded shows have a thin strip of white on black noise at the top. Looks to be too organized to be noise actually. Closed captioning data or something? Guess I may need to edit the stream to cut that out and also to snip out the commercials so I can fit more on a dvd. I’ll update this if I ever get my shows onto a dvd that works. At this point I am having a hard time disagreeing with the TiVo Deathwatch. I’ll probably be looking for an alternative soon.

Uh oh, TiVo. I’ve seen a few positive things too, so there is some balance out there. We still don’t have a Series 2 TiVo, so I guess we’re living in the past, but we’ve got lots of good life out of the Series 1 and I feel that it was a very good purchase at the time. I don’t think it’s time to throw dirt on TiVO just yet, but they are clearly on life support. Maybe Mark Cuban is right about TiVo. He said in a recent interview that they should get out of the hardware business and license their software. Good advice.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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