TIVO reviewed – part 2
While TIVO’s arrival on the New Zealand market sholud be wholeheartedly welcomed, MySky’s entrenched presence in the market has really stolen the thunder of the iconic US brand that made time-shifting and add-skipping standard TV watching behaviour.
Nevertheless, despite the lead Sky has with tens of thousands of paid up Sky subscribers shelling out extra each month to rent the MySky HDi box, TIVO has a few features that are very much new to New Zealand and could help secure TIVO a lucrative niche.
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TiVo has some seriously intelligent software built into the box which is designed to help you come across TV programming you are likely to enjoy watching. Every time you record a show on the TIVO box, the software tracks the type of show you are watching and offers up similar types of programmes based a series of criteria – genre, age demographic and the actors starring in the show included.
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Pity that TiVo couldn’t get permission to have it enabled to take a SKY HD card. Guess this is NZ and unlike the US TiVo will be crippled only to FreeView and SD movie downloads