I owe a post on Tivo, or on the Toshiba-made RS-TX20 combo Tivo DVR and DVD burner that arrived on Christmas, but that will have to wait for another day with more free time (short version – it’s awesome except for the way it changes channels on our cable box). Instead, I’ll just loudly complain about this absurd new “service” being offered by Tivo and Verizon Wireless, as reported in USA Today and brought to my attention by the Techdirt blog.
The new service lets you program your Tivo box over your Verizon cell phone. Ok, this conjures thoughts of painfully long waits interspersed by tedious million keypad taps to navigate and enter show names. Yuck. Maybe I’ll try it once, I guess. Then the kicker – it costs $5 a month, says the Wall Street Journal. Is that a joke? Yipes.
Of course, there’s one thing I really want from my Tivo and hopefully it’s coming soon (again, according to the WSJ): “The company is working on software that will let TiVo users transfer recorded programs from their DVRs onto Apple Computer Inc.’s video iPods.” Oh yeah, baby.
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