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Friday, December 01, 2006 7:04 PM PT Posted by Harry McCracken
TiVo Tacks Ads Onto Shows
TiVo has a new, er, feature which involves adding ads to the screen you get after watching a recorded show. (Via Mark Evanier, who says "TiVo is like that friend you love even though he keeps doing things that you wish he didn't do." Ouch.)
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We buy TiVo because we do not want any advertising. If Tivo wants advertising there is no need to buy their product.
At least TiVo showed a small sense of propriety by placing the ad at the end of the recorded program and not embedding the ad within the program itself without any way to avoid it. I don't yet have a TiVo. If they encroach any further into what I consider a sort of virtual "personal space" (how I choose to view programs) then I may never buy one. Right now I use a computer as a DVR and have no real reason to get TiVo.