Have a baby, get a TiVo

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Have a baby, get a TiVo

TiVo is giving away gifts in Dallas this Mother's Day:

Women who give birth at Parkland Memorial Hospital over Mother's Day weekend will each get a free TiVo digital video recorder – even if they don't know what it is. Company representatives were at the hospital Friday morning chatting up new moms and handing out certificates for the recorders along with free lifetime TiVo service, both valued at $498. While the women seemed grateful, several patients admitted later that they weren't sure at first what the devices were used for.

Link to Dallas Morning News article (complete with registration wall)

by Matt Haughey May 6, 2005 in News, TiVo

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Looks like you were a few days and a couple thousand miles off.

Posted by: Matt at May 6, 2005 7:56:51 PM

I live in Dallas. Parkland is the county hospital, where those without insurance or on 'assistance' go. Normal wait there is half a day or more, just to see a doctor. Most of the people who got these will probably end up selling/pawning them. Giving TiVo's to these mothers will not add any TiVo users via referrals, I'm guessing.
While it was a 'nice' thing to do, the HOW and WHY of Parkland being selected makes me wonder "what there they thinking?!?!"

Posted by: rustyvz at May 8, 2005 12:27:31 AM

Give a man a TV and he'll waste a few hours. Give a man a TiVo and he'll waste a lifetime.

Posted by: Matt at May 8, 2005 10:41:40 AM

rustyvz, Their thinking might have been -
Give out Tivo out in posh hospital = loss sales from people who would have bought otherwise.

Give out in Parkland = get some free publicity and not loose sales as these mothers would not have bought anyway.

Posted by: Paul at May 11, 2005 9:46:16 PM

Maybe they are just trying to broaden their demographics for adv.

Posted by: Tyson at May 12, 2005 10:34:26 AM

i am too young to have a baby, but i really want one. what can i do?
i am 15 years of age and i am desparate to have a baby.

Posted by: Judie (spikee_Luver) at Jun 9, 2005 5:34:53 AM

Dear Tyson.
Take a really deep breath.
I know what it feels like to want to have a baby even at a young age. I am now 26, married, in school and working and desperatly wanting a baby. Please I beg of you do not follow through on your wants. The best thought I can give you is... how fair is it to the child if him or her mom is 15. It's not. I have wanted a baby since I was 17. But, I did not know who I was at 17 and I am sure the same applies to you. You have so many hormones surging through your body and so much time to figure yourself out before bringing a kid in. I am trying to get into a medical program and after I am finished I am going to have a baby. Because.... I know that I will have done everything I can to make the childs life a good one (security, money, mommy at home to raise baby while daddy works, roof always over head)
_ Best wishes!
Tip.....PRAY about it.

Posted by: sara at Sep 5, 2006 7:13:12 PM

Have a baby, get a TiVo

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