The question that is always raised, when one or more TiVo owners are gathered together is — why doesn’t everyone have one? I know that I couldn’t live without mine. In fact I don’t watch live TV, unless there happens to be a war on. In-Stat/MDR latest report reveals that 83% of their respondents were either “Extremely satisfied” or “Very satisfied” with their PVR.

After a very slow uptake, annual shipments of units have finally reached 1m Worldwide and In-Stat predicted this will rise to 11m by 2005 as manufacturers include PVR function in their other products, as was signalled by Panasonic when they shipped the PV-SS2710, a 27″ TV with build-in PVR back in Feb.

This, tragically coming the business day after ReplayTV’s SonicBlue filing for Chapter 11, shows the innovators don’t always reap the rewards.

On this day, years gone by ...

• Nintendo Wii Fit Coming To UK. Get Queuing - 2008
• Google Android Phone Summer Launch Date? - 2008
• Intel's 2go PC Takes On Asus Eee And Elonex - 2008
• Lovebytes 2006. Environments - 2006
• Fraunhofer Institute Develops “Fair Use” DRM System ***Update*** - 2004
• 3 Announce Videotalk to PC - 2004
• NPD Group: Online Console Games Exceeded US$1 Billion Sales in 2003 - 2004
• Japan Agrees on Digital Terrestrial TV Standard... for Mobile Phones - 2004
• The Impact Of The DV Format On Current TV Production - 2004
• SonicBlue to sell via Amazon - 2002