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Seven and TiVo: a marriage made in what now?

Started by Josh Kinal · 6 months ago

Seven and TiVo have come together to bring the much sought after TiVo service to Australia.
WTF? They should have done this years ago and it seems, from the media release, that it’s only going to be available for free-to-air channels.
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  • fourthof5

    2 years ago

    Its a case of closing the barn door after the audience has bolted.
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  • catbrain

    2 years ago

    You can blame Foxtel, to a certain extent, that TiVo won't cover pay tv - Foxtel have done something wacky with their digital delivery such that only iQ can record the Foxtel channels. You might be able to get around it with some hacking, but it's not straightforward at all.

    There's also the issue of Nine and their program guide - they sued IceTV for using it, under breach of copyright. An industry-wide electronic program guide may well be "on the way", but who knows when... and with TiVo/Seven not giving too much detail at this stage - other than that TiVo will be released here "in the first half of 2008" - I ain't holding my breath.
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  • Bolden

    2 years ago

    I also think that it will fail as there is no way Ch9 would get on board (with it's current owners) as it will be a rival to Foxtel.

    Tivo and Ch7 has no legs....no legs...;(
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