Some PVR news

In the news today, DirecTV is trying to spur on their slow Directivo sales by offering NFL highlights every Monday morning from the previous day's games. You have to have both a DirecTivo and an NFL subscription, which seems to make the new feature almost pointless. If you already have a Directivo and the NFL package, wouldn't you already have caught the highlights when you recorded them? People are already paying a couple hundred bucks for the NFL option, I don't see throwing some highlight reels in as incentive enough to pickup the DVR for another two hundred bucks.

The hard drive manufacturer Maxtor posted their second quarter earnings, showing a nice profit. The money-quote from the CEO: "We were especially pleased with the growth in hard drives sold to consumer electronics OEM customers, primarily for PVR, DVR and set-top box applications." Nice to see other companies making cash off the largely profitless world of PVR sales.