IS TIVO MAKING A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL?

(hat tip daily rotation)


Or, is it the beginning of the end for DVR as we know it?

In an effort to placate Hollywood, your TIVO box will quietly download a software patch update which will narrow the window that Pay per View programs can be watched before they are rendered inert.

So, for Tivo, the phrase "watch what you want, when you want it" isn't entirely true anymore.

Meanwhile, there's this little diddy from engadget which reports that TIVO has been cutting deals with advertisers and is planning on placing BANNER ADS on the screen when you attempt to fast forward through commercials!

HELLO? REMEMBER THE IDEA BEHIND TIVO?!

And Congress is considering bills that would MAKE IT A CRIME TO FAST FORWARD through commercials! Yeah, that's going to get me to buy stuff.

I can see the ads now - use a remote, go to jail.

Meanwhile, pushers are still selling drugs to our kids.