Re: OT: £40 to talk about your Tivo :)

[Steven Edgar <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>]

> I have been approached by a market research comapny to recruit Tivo
owners
> for a focus group.
>
> They are being a bit secretive about why they want the information, my
> guess is a competitor that wants to improve their product with the
Tivo
> features that users _really_ like. But I could be completely wrong :)


Well, it's a bit far for me to travel (Edinburgh!), but my top wish-list

Ethernet attached - for schedule downloading, connecting multiple boxes
together to share recording duties (a-la MythTV) and watch-anywhere, able
to
store and watch recordings on computers, able to watch videos off of
computer
(ie a standard file format,.avi, .mpg, etc). Oh, and not hitting you for
multiple schedule subscriptions for multiple boxes in the same house.

..and of course it must run on Linux! ;-)     (well ok, not REQUIRE a
Windows
box for any features)

If Tivo or Sky+ or any of the other commercial offerings did that I'd have
bought 4 or 5 of the things, instead I don't have any.


Steven