TiVo's Loss Narrows on Subscriber Growth
[Reinvent TV] [Source: Reinvent TV] quoted: TiVo said it had a fiscal first-quarter loss of $857,000, or 1 cent per share, compared with a loss of $9.07 million, or 11 cents per share, in the same period of 2004. Revenue for the quarter was $46.9 million, up 36% fro... [Read More]
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[HDTV - hdtv.engadget.com] The Clicker -- Why are there 18 standards for HDTV?: Besides, I’m sure that you, as Engadget readers, can understand the Zen-like relationship that a man has with both his remote control and his TiVo. If you’re anything like me, you’ve learned to scan through the channels with the best of them. You too have developed a Jedi-like ability to quickly skip over Lifetime, Oxygen, and The Hallmark Channel while spending a little more time on ESPN and the Sci-Fi Channel.
[Personal Space Observer] Your Cellphone is a Homing Device: Early adopters of the TiVo digital video recorder knew that the box somehow uses the Internet, since it needs to be plugged into a telephone jack. But it wasn't until the Privacy Foundation attached a "sniffer" to a test unit that TiVo's true nature was revealed. Every night, the recorder transmits the day's viewing records back to the company's servers””which channels were viewed when, when the volume was turned up and down, even the device's internal temperature. (That's not to mention TiVo's habit of recommending shows to viewers based on their past viewing habits, a feature that has famously vexed homophobes, who worry that a peek at a Miss America pageant will convince their box to recommend "gay" fare.) None of this was revealed in TiVo's brochure, which contained only a vague privacy pledge that records are stripped of identification markers””and a statement that the company's privacy policy was subject to change.
[ Luxagraf] One Nation Under a Groove: Perhaps there is no problem with the iPod. No harm in headphones. No danger to run from save the desire to have a new danger to run from, a new evil to fight because the real one is just too big to tackle, a new threat to declare war on because the old one just bores us to death, a new something to rage against because the dying of the light seems inevitable and unvanquishable. Perhaps the new danger, same as the old, is our own failure, our own sentimentality that show us the world not as it is but as we wish to see it.
[Displays - displays.engadget.com] The Clicker -- Why are there 18 standards for HDTV?: Besides, I’m sure that you, as Engadget readers, can understand the Zen-like relationship that a man has with both his remote control and his TiVo. If you’re anything like me, you’ve learned to scan through the channels with the best of them. You too have developed a Jedi-like ability to quickly skip over Lifetime, Oxygen, and The Hallmark Channel while spending a little more time on ESPN and the Sci-Fi Channel.
[Weblog.foopee.org] Graham's weblog » TiVo Exceeds Estimates as Loss Narrows: “TiVo Inc., the maker of a digital video recorder that can pause and replay live television, said yesterday that its quarterly loss narrowed as sales more than doubled.” [Link]
[Finwin.com] Top Headlines: TiVo reported a first quarter net loss of $857 thousand or $0.01 per share compared to a loss of $9.1 million or $0.11 per share in the same quarter last year. On average, fifteen analysts surveyed by First Call / Thomson Financial had expected the company to report a loss of $0.11 per share.
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Posted at June 04, 2005 11:35 AM
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