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TiVo Has Threats Ahead

With the threat of IPTV comes opportunity, i.e. TIVO is already renaming the DVR to Digital Video Retriever. A new generation of set top boxes and smart TV's are fighting it out for control of your TV and TIVO is in the middle of it via YouTube access, Entertainment Weekly and Chicago Sun Times movie reviews. Think of google for IPTV video. If people have trouble with 100 cable channels and still have nothing to watch, how about 1000's of channels on the web. TIVO's thumb up/down peer ranking and search by Title, actor, etc is second to none. With the link to Amazon, you can also purchase what you see in a show. And while waiting for IPTV to take off, TIVO is licensed to Comcast, Cox, and DirectTV.