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Posted by: in

How about the releasing these two products:

networkable Tivo's (with something like a fast ethernet port). This would allow many benefits:
* multiple Tivo's (say in different rooms) to share storage and allow playback of files stored on other Tivo's
* access updates through broadband internet connections (if people have them)
* allow expansion of storage
* allow Tivo to break into the movie on demand/pay per view via ADSL market (such as Home Choice in the UK)
* Tivo the internet appliance?

a Tivo expansion storage unit that would allow you to add multiple (say at least 4 or 8 or even 12 ATA100 drives)... The way I see it, hard drive storage costs (at the basic quality level) currently run at around $5/hour. Given that storage costs roughly half annually, hard drive storage of video will become competitive with video tape in a few years - that way we wouldn't have to waste our time recording to tape and would be able to access the programs we wanted without searching for the tape...

...naturally, Tivo would need better archiving software and a more powerful processor but come on - you guys at Tivo would be opening up whole new revenue streams doing this...

Posted by: HTH

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Originally posted by in:
How about the releasing these two products:

networkable Tivo's (with something like a fast ethernet port). This would allow many benefits:
* multiple Tivo's (say in different rooms) to share storage and allow playback of files stored on other Tivo's

The required bandwidth would be the bottleneck, as well as make content providers uncomfortable with the ease of copying.

What would be more feasible is to have storage management and conflict resolution handled automatically between multiple TiVos, have them all know what each other have, and have a way for them control which TiVo's output goes to your TV and AV system depending on where the program you chose to watch is actually stored. Possibly with a special Master TiVo device which interfaces with multiple TiVos, taking multiple inputs and connecting to the slave TiVos through their DSS ports.

Of course this is frequently requested, but as yet has garnered no comment.

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