This from TiVo’s SEC filing for last quarter, which shows the company losing 314,000 subscribers in the period, capping more than year an a half of fairly steady decline. They lay claim to just 8% of the roughly 38m active DVRs in the US right now. This is not great.
The TiVo name is so common that most people don’t have the sense of the turmoil behind it, but it’s very, very real. TiVo’s boxes, even if they are some of the best DVRs around, have started to feel stale in the past year, and for most people, cable-co-supplied boxes are simply Good Enough. Basically, they need something exciting, to customers and to TV providers, and they need it soon—that cascading cash river from Dish isn’t going to flow forever. [TV By The Numbers via Crunchgear]
Nathan
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 9:31 AMThats because it so freakin expensive to buy into it. Even though its a once of cost. Here in Australia your charged $800 upwards for a TiVO box. TiVO made their bed they can lie in it…
Jack
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:44 AMIt isnt $800 and upwards.
It’s $699 direct from Tivo, or on sale at DSE for $599.
Now, quick check here: is $599 more than $800? Or is it less?
Nick Broughall
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:56 AMCurrent deal aside (new 320GB TiVo with home networking for $699), when you add in the $200 home networking software, it does add up to at least $898. Just sayin…
Simon
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 12:23 PMGuys, remember these figures are for the USA, not Australia. Totally different environment. In the states the Tivo is used with cable networks, here it’s going to be available with Freeview, IPTV and VOD services.
joedy
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 9:09 AMHere in Australia it is a rip off. Free to Air is a rip off. If a show isnt available on itunes (where i get it a few hours after it airs in the US and in HD) then i download by other means. Only channels i watch on FTA are SBS and ABC.
Tivo has crap features