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RE: The decline and fall of TiVo and Media Center

techiegz@... Updated - 9th Sep

@jrumor The decline of TiVo is another prediction of mine besides the bleak outlook I predicted for WebOS even before HP purchased it. The fact that it requires you to first invest an upfront cost in the hundreds of dollars to acquire a set top device before you can use the service is a huge problem especially when others let you use what you already have to stream and record shows. The same will happen to GoogleTV because they require you to dump your current TV and buy one with GoogleTV inbuilt. Its just not going anywhere. What will actually take off is Xbox, especially now with Kinect that brings you into the space age with voice and body gestures/controls of all your entertainment in your living room. 30 million people already have it and counting and it is already right next to everyone's set top boxes in the living room. Delivering IPTV to it just makes sense especially with all of that cloud storage that has been rumored. I will not be surprised to see a decline in cable TV subscriptions or at least a price drop as they will struggle to retain customers fleeing to Xbox TV service. Mark my words.