TiVo may indeed one day exit the hardware business, but it's not this week as Wired declared. As far as I know the company held two rounds of layoffs in 2012 and have been telling investors for some time both R&D and legal spend would go down, so this isn't entirely unexpected. Guessing Wired spoke to a disgruntled former employee without filtering. They also excised a bit from the TiVo spokesperson's prepared comment specific to continued hardware innovation, presumably to support their dramatic premise. It's very possible Roamio is the last piece of hardware TiVo produces... or designs in-house. But six months after launch, they're not blowing it all up.
Journalism on the web is in short supply. That said, I also think this just might be the last generation of Tivo DVRs, but I just set up a new Roamio Pro yesterday and with the latest offer Tivo just emailed me, I just might order a Roamio Plus and/or Mini. I plan to always have a few DVRs for the rest of my life and the Tivo Roamio is the best option I've seen.
No we know why TIVO has been unable to bring a decent device for years -- 7 engineers? WTF are they spending the money on.
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TiVo may indeed one day exit the hardware business, but it's not this week as Wired declared. As far as I know the company held two rounds of layoffs in 2012 and have been telling investors for some time both R&D and legal spend would go down, so this isn't entirely unexpected. Guessing Wired spoke to a disgruntled former employee without filtering. They also excised a bit from the TiVo spokesperson's prepared comment specific to continued hardware innovation, presumably to support their dramatic premise. It's very possible Roamio is the last piece of hardware TiVo produces... or designs in-house. But six months after launch, they're not blowing it all up.
Journalism on the web is in short supply. That said, I also think this just might be the last generation of Tivo DVRs, but I just set up a new Roamio Pro yesterday and with the latest offer Tivo just emailed me, I just might order a Roamio Plus and/or Mini. I plan to always have a few DVRs for the rest of my life and the Tivo Roamio is the best option I've seen.
No we know why TIVO has been unable to bring a decent device for years -- 7 engineers? WTF are they spending the money on.