{"id":67,"date":"2006-04-12T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.222\/~wkblogco\/?p=67"},"modified":"2008-04-11T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:47:44","slug":"tivo-and-directv-commit-for-3-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2006\/04\/tivo-and-directv-commit-for-3-more-years\/","title":{"rendered":"TiVo and DirecTV Commit for 3 More Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announced this morning, DirecTV has completed an agreement with TiVo to continue to provide service to combo DirecTV\/TiVo DVRs for at least three years beyond the current agreement&#8217;s end date at the end of 2007. This means that DirecTV will continue to support (although not necessarily to sell) TiVo DVRs until 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/rb\/060412\/media_tivo_directv.html?.v=3\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo\/Reuters Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t too much of a surprise &#8211; DirecTV still supports UltimateTV boxes that haven&#8217;t been made for many years. But this will allay concerns that anyone should have in purchasing a TiVo over the home-grown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/2005\/12\/the_weaknees_r10_r15_compariso.html\">R15<\/a> that DirecTV has released.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, it&#8217;s nice to have a firm commitment in place, and some guarantee of a revenue stream for TiVo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced this morning, DirecTV has completed an agreement with TiVo to continue to provide service to combo DirecTV\/TiVo DVRs for at least three years beyond the current agreement&#8217;s end date at the end of 2007. This means that DirecTV will continue to support (although not necessarily to sell) TiVo DVRs until 2010. Yahoo\/Reuters Article This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}