Tivo catches a break
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, said yesterday that it would offer its customers a video recorder service from TiVo, news that helped send TiVo’s shares up nearly 75 percent.
Investors had soured on TiVo lately, on fears that its pioneering service for digitally recording and playing back television programs was being eclipsed by house brands offered by satellite and cable companies.
Negotiations with Comcast broke down last summer, and DirecTV, which has been TiVo’s largest source of new customers, has said it is building its own video recorder system.
I wouldn’t stop the Tivo deathwatch. The Comcast deal doesn’t pay as much as the DirectTV which DTV is going to let run out. Anyway I hope sombody buys them and continues to offer there service, at least long enough for me to get in on the action. 
