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TiVo To Return To DirecTV in Mid-2009
- By: Jerry Del Colliano
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- November 24, 2008
Leading satellite provider DirecTV confirmed that rumors of the TiVo operating system making a return to their system are in fact true. TiVo, despite being the best operating system for HDTV DVRs by all critical accounts, was dropped by DirecTV like a hot potato when the satellite provider moved to a more HD-channel-rich MPEG 4 format, which forced users to DirecTV's proprietary system that was nowhere near as user-friendly as the Mac-like TiVo system.
Little is known about how TiVo will make its way back into the world of DirecTV. Will the MPG4 receivers installed in the field be able to change to the TiVo operating system? That's unlikely. However, TiVo and HDTV enthusiasts will be able to get TiVo back into their lives if they are willing to once again upgrade their HDTV receivers. It's safe to assume more and more pay-per-play content via partners like Netflix will be part of the new receiver, as will network connectivity, which is part of the digital cable TiVo boxes.
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3Just as a matter of point, TiVo is based on Linux not "mac like". There really is nothing about the interface that is mac-like
Mac is actually very "Linux" like. The OS for Mac OS X is called "Darwin." It is based on the Unix based operating system FreeBSD. FreeBSD and Linux are similar in many ways.
I think the point was that TiVo's interface is simple, intuitive, and visually attractive... all of which is more akin to the Mac than Windows. I use both Mac OS X and Windows all day long. There is a significant difference.
I was an early adopter of TiVo (1999, in fact), and I also have a Comcast DVR which is almost unusable by comparison. Good UI design is critically important. In fact, the lack of TiVo on DirecTV is the main reason I still have Comcast. This report is good news, at least for me.
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