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How would you change TiVo?

People spent the weekend answering the question "How would you change TiVo?" over on Engadget. Even TiVo loyalists will admit that there are imperfections with their PVR of choice. While the perennial favorites "Get rid of TiVoToGo DRM" (which is the root of the "Support x non-Windows platform" suggestions), "built in networking hardware," "dual tuners," "expandable storage" and "sell out to Apple" were all well represented, here are a few of the more interesting ones:

• The Jeremy : Viewer voting options. Actually voting on the quality of the show you just watched, and the ability to give feedback to "Thumbs Up" or "Thumbs Down" actual networks. I detest UPN and G4, so I'd like to actually have my TiVo upload my vote to TiVo to share with interested advertisers.
  Offer an option to get "free" service by agreeing to watch a certain amount of downloaded commercials tailored to your aggregate viewing habits.
• Haggis!: Exclusions in the wish lists so you could automatically record anything about say, Scotland, but not anything about golf that was played in Scotland.
• telstar: Ability to order the soundtrack to movies that are playing, and have it synced to my iPod
• Jen: The ability to download commercials via product line, category or client specific.
• Jim: Wishlist to select 4 star movies
• Grafix: detection on all channels of when a certain word is use to record that segment. such as program to seach "PSP" then using scientific mathematics to detect a similar sound our picture in a broadcast then recording the program [ed. I think what the commenter wants is some sort of closed captioning search]
• C9: Record by Folksonomy, make it social, allow for greater skinning.

There are also a lot of complaints in the comments, hopefully TiVo is listening to all this free market research.

by George Hotelling May 16, 2005 in TiVo

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