There's an interesting post on Thomas Hawk's page about DirecTV's difficulty in putting together its TIVO replacement boxes.

DirecTV has selected LG Electronics to make the DirecTV branded PVRs and has hired another company to help support MPEG-4. We have no reliable idea when we'll see the HD PVR replacement. A lot of work just to be rid of TIVO. Plus, DirecTV risks losing some loyal TIVO customers who don't want to switch to the new box.

All in all, I'm not sure who is really benefitting from this mess. Obviously DirecTV thinks it can put the money it was paying TIVO into its own pocket- maybe so, but there's just not all that much money to be saved. And everyone other than DirecTV is certainly going to suffer.

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