@arkweld You have not considered market capitalization:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TIVO
vs.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NFLX
In short, NetFlix's is 3x higher (as of today), so it is much to expensive for that buyout to be possible.

@BeingBoston Actually most CE set-top boxes (like Blu-ray players, etc) are MIPS-based, not ARM. Meanwhile, the mobile phone market has been mostly ARM for several years now.

@PGPProtector Honestly, it's a waste of your time to bother thinking about this. The data is anonymized (as described in the post). The servers that collect the data has no way of correlating it to your own account, and TiVo has been upfront with this for some time.

I would say it's not so much that he looks LIKE Kim Jong Il as much as that his shirt with the browns and reds gives him a decidedly communist look.

For the SDV issue, TiVo officially supports the use of "tuning resolvers" (basically a USB device that does the upstream end of channel changing the way the cable companies' units do) that solve this.

You can also get an eSATA expansion drive (WD "MyDVR" 500GB & 1TB) for S3 & TiVoHD for pretty cheap, to get more storage for your unit.

All men die. Not all men really live.

It's like a bad set piece out of Star Trek: The Next Generation !
Is it teh ugly, or is it the FUTURE? :)

While the snarkiness of the original post is notable, it's worth pointing out that "telling people to just turn off stuff when they aren't using it" is not of lasting value.

Without getting political about the costs of implementing this, the point is to draw attention to people's ACTUAL use by monitoring it, and doing appropriate things to /reduce/ one's own energy bills (as well as conserve energy in general). Without the reinforcement of units like these, a lot of people just do "whatever" and don't pay any attention to their actual energy use. I would go farther and say to people "Look at what you'll be able to do with the money you saved from energy efficiency". Kinda like the Geico "Money staring at you" commercials.

Uh, but they're completely different styles of games. If you have a specific budget for gaming, I understand. But the games are totally different experiences. New SMB Wii for me will probably be about the co-op.