News Story: NDS plans to compete with TiVo for DirecTV deals

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Well, it isn't a done deal, but you do have to think that NDS has the
inside track. I suppose they could support both TIVO and NDS. I wonder
what TIVO will do to fight off NDS?

TiVo already has a much larger feature set. They're already working
on a lower cost box for DirecTV, which will help them compete on
price. And I suppose they could renegotiate pricing if NDS lowballs
them.

They could also do something like TiVo Basic - so DTV could give users
TiVo Basic for free, and $5/month for TiVo Plus.

I mean, really, there is a lot they can do. If DirecTV was interested
they could produce receivers with integrated DVD players (and maybe
they will, if cable companies start offering Moxi units with DVD
players), and with a bit more work, DVD burners. (More work because
the unit will have to convert DTV encoding to DVD encoding.) TiVo
already has the code for those features because they produced it for
Pioneer and Toshiba, and the forthcoming Humax box.

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shaped the electrons to say:
Well, it isn't a done deal, but you do have to think that NDS has the
inside track. I suppose they could support both TIVO and NDS. I wonder
what TIVO will do to fight off NDS?

TiVo already has a much larger feature set. They're already working
on a lower cost box for DirecTV, which will help them compete on
price. And I suppose they could renegotiate pricing if NDS lowballs
them.

They could also do something like TiVo Basic - so DTV could give users
TiVo Basic for free, and $5/month for TiVo Plus.

I mean, really, there is a lot they can do. If DirecTV was interested
they could produce receivers with integrated DVD players (and maybe
they will, if cable companies start offering Moxi units with DVD
players), and with a bit more work, DVD burners.

(More work because
the unit will have to convert DTV encoding to DVD encoding.)

I think it would be great if it just stayed in the "TY" format. Then
have it play back through the DirecTV as if were from the tuner. Or
as if it were coming off the hard drive of the DVR. Perhaps some
enterprising programmer(s) would even make a "TY" Editor that would
let you make archives of shows that are of the same quality as the
original satellite broadcast; with out commercials.

TiVo
already has the code for those features because they produced it for
Pioneer and Toshiba, and the forthcoming Humax box.

-MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762

On 28 Apr 2004 21:37:04 GMT, (MegaZone)
wrote:

shaped the electrons to say:
Well, it isn't a done deal, but you do have to think that NDS has the
inside track. I suppose they could support both TIVO and NDS. I wonder
what TIVO will do to fight off NDS?

TiVo already has a much larger feature set. They're already working
on a lower cost box for DirecTV, which will help them compete on
price. And I suppose they could renegotiate pricing if NDS lowballs
them.


Possibly than the NDS box, yes, but some much sought after Tivo
features (USB ethernet HMO namely), are not being enabled by DirecTV.

They could also do something like TiVo Basic - so DTV could give users
TiVo Basic for free, and $5/month for TiVo Plus.

I mean, really, there is a lot they can do. If DirecTV was interested
they could produce receivers with integrated DVD players (and maybe
they will, if cable companies start offering Moxi units with DVD
players), and with a bit more work, DVD burners. (More work because
the unit will have to convert DTV encoding to DVD encoding.) TiVo
already has the code for those features because they produced it for
Pioneer and Toshiba, and the forthcoming Humax box.

-MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:26:53 -0400, Gary Tait
wrote:

On 28 Apr 2004 21:37:04 GMT, (MegaZone)
wrote:

shaped the electrons to say:
Well, it isn't a done deal, but you do have to think that NDS has the
inside track. I suppose they could support both TIVO and NDS. I wonder
what TIVO will do to fight off NDS?

TiVo already has a much larger feature set. They're already working
on a lower cost box for DirecTV, which will help them compete on
price. And I suppose they could renegotiate pricing if NDS lowballs
them.


Possibly than the NDS box, yes, but some much sought after Tivo
features (USB ethernet HMO namely), are not being enabled by DirecTV.


Much sought after by who????

A few thousand geeks.

As opposed to the millions of normal people that TIVO needs to stay in
business.

Even the TIVO execs don't mention that crap when they try to defend
their product against the competitors.

It's always, "season pass" or "keywords".

Like there's no way around ther patents and even if there
wasn't customers will be willing to pay a friggin thousand dollars to
get them.

TIVO - Dead Company Walking
Sean