New TiVo service to measure its ad-zapping fallout

[weisguy]

For those of you following Tivo with morbid curiosity as it bows to pressure and moves away from being a friendly device (like any GBPVR box!), you may be interested in the following article:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertisin...-ads_x.htm

Long live GBPVR.

-wg

[rowle1jt]

I saw that.... I think its only a matter of time before they let you skip commercials... and force you to watch a couple commericals an hour that TIVO sells to advertisers.

My brother in law has an 80 gig Tivo... and now wished he had gone the route I did with GB-PVR. He can record 80 hours... I can get roughly 165 hours on my current box. If I added my other 200 gig (spare) drive I would be well over 350.

[daphatty]

Even though I have invested over $1600 (US) in my GBPVR box since I started this hobby two years ago, I can honestly say being able to record what I want, when I want, AND skip the commercials has made this investment worth every penny.

[Spartan]

Even though I have invested over $1600 (US) in my GBPVR box since I started this hobby two years ago, I can honestly say being able to record what I want, when I want, AND skip the commercials has made this investment worth every penny.

Roger that -- same situation here.