TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war (theverge.com)

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TiVo exiting legacy DVR businesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511798

I remember finding a TiVo in the electronics trash in 2007. Score! Plugged it in and it powered up. But it does nothing without a subscription so I threw it back in the trash. That’s the moment I knew TiVo had become irrelevant.