Comments on: Tivo strikes marketing alliance with Best Buy (now you can’t skip Best Buy commercials?)

By: djc

djc — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:00:38 +0000

Tivo is cutting their throat. One of the main reasons DVR's became popular is the ability to elude the onslaught of never ending advertisements. Tivo has slowly been adding places to try to get you to click on advertisements as it is. So now you can pay a monthly fee on top of the hardware purchase to be forced to see, or annoyed with some type of add, for products Best Buy has to offer at it's over inflated pricing. Good bye to Tivo and I'll continue to get my electronics from online retailers at more reasonable prices.

By: Haggie

Haggie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:02:51 +0000

So Tivo gets premium placement in the stores, BestBuy gets to market their products to Tiv suckers (users), and the consumer gets what?

I have a home-built DVR that I considered replacing with Tivo, but I just scrapped that idea. When Tivo gives me a free STB with no monthly fee, I'll consider having advertising crammed down my throat, until then, I'll stick with my home-brew DVR.

By: jonstewart

jonstewart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:35:40 +0000

Please don't place statements into your headlines that are bogus and not based on anything. Even if you add parenthesis and a question mark.

Some journalistic advice from Jon:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september...

By: MrGutts

MrGutts — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:03:09 +0000

I think it maybe time to retire all my Tivo's. This is getting old from Tivo. I don't pay a monthly sub on every one of my Tivo's to see embedded commercials.

SageTV and MythTV are looking better and better..