An Interesting Statement About TiVo In The UK

Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2008 by MegaZone

The UK’s Times Online has an article today mainly about the recently announced TiVo-Amazon Product Purchase feature. Ho-hum. But the very last sentence caught my notice:

And after a failed debut in 2000-3, TiVo is talking about relaunching in the UK.

There has certainly been speculation about TiVo relaunching in the UK, and I’ve said I personally expect them to do so, but I don’t think TiVo has been talking about doing so. If they have I’d love to know just what they’ve said. I don’t think they’d mentioned any specific plans to relaunch in the UK. I suppose I’ll put this down to the writer being perhaps overzealous in his phrasing, but it sure caught my eye. Maybe he knows something?

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  • http://www.zatznotfunny.com Dave Zatz

    The TV situation in the UK has changed since TiVo first launched there. So, it wouldn’t surprise me to see a “Freeview TiVo” at some point. Wish we had a freeview-type OTA ATSC movement here in the US. We may just be too large (physically) to pull it off.

  • http://media-itch.blogspot.com Bix Barton

    Currently running a a petition to try and drum up interest in TiVo bringing a version of the Australian TiVo to the UK.

    If you could plug it, that’d be cool…

    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/TiVo4UK