It has all been very quite to the TiVo front.. Beat testing almost finished? Anyone heard anything?

I was in the QANTAS club last week listening to a channel 10 exec yelling wanker style into his mobile phone. It seems Freeview is serious but stalled in legal negotiations - and I heard Tivo mentioned as well.

No comments from any 'friends' of beta testers?

It has been quiet eh?
I signed up for the beta program but wasn't accepted, months back.

There is some musing over in the "Extra channels" section
http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showforum=17
Mainly about the 2009 SD channel and Freeview.

I think March articles were saying Seven wanted Nine & Ten to partner with it for a TiVo rollout, but that 9 & 10 wanted to form Freeview instead. There were a couple of articles in the last 2 weeks saying that Seven had signed up to Freeview, but also that they had to choose between Freeview and TiVo.... I'm not sure why they weren't assuming that Seven's TiVo would simply be Freeview approved (... who is confused, Seven or the reporter?)

I also see that on the Australian TiVo website they now say
" Your TiVo® will also provide you with access to the best entertainment
from the web, via a wireless broadband connection."
That seems new.
I hope TiVo will let me use my existing Naked DSL connection rather than force me onto Unwired.

They would almost certainly be referring to WiFi, not direct wireless ISP access.

Didn't seven buy up a whole lot of spectrum for direct wireless ISP?

Regards

Peter Gillespie

They bought Unwired. With a plan to upgrade unwired to Wimax.

I think originally via Engin, Seven was going to sell a combo TiVo, Engin (VoIP), and Naked DSL (via Optus).

... Then they bought Unwired and they were talking about pushing a collection of movies every night over WiMax to the TiVo, so that when using VoD/PPV it would choose from a collection already downloaded.

The current TiVo website implies they're still on that later tack - but I hope they're still making a deal with a few of the ADSL2+ providers. Then again, I'm presuming that will give me greater variety and choice, perhaps seven are really more focussed on controlling the whole experience.

Oh, I didn't know that. I was going to add someting along the lines of 'unless they buy a WISP!' to my first post...

Double post.