Comments on: TiVo’s Evan Young Discusses the Details of the new TiVoCast Service http://daledietrich.com/imedia/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/ on DaleDietrich.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:05:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Dale Dietrich http://daledietrich.com/imedia/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/comment-page-1/#comment-26715 Dale Dietrich Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:40:02 +0000 http://daledietrich.com/imedia/2006/12/05/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/#comment-26715 I don't believe TiVo is getting a "cut" of any fees from video podcasters. Though I do believe they, the podcasters, pay their own bandwidth costs for the mpeg2 stream that TiVo needs at the moment. Note that the S3 TiVo should in future be able to access h.264 feeds in the future - lowering dramatically the cost of feeding the podcast to TiVo units. ...Dale I don’t believe TiVo is getting a “cut” of any fees from video podcasters. Though I do believe they, the podcasters, pay their own bandwidth costs for the mpeg2 stream that TiVo needs at the moment. Note that the S3 TiVo should in future be able to access h.264 feeds in the future – lowering dramatically the cost of feeding the podcast to TiVo units.

…Dale

]]> By: dave http://daledietrich.com/imedia/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/comment-page-1/#comment-26541 dave Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:32:22 +0000 http://daledietrich.com/imedia/2006/12/05/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/#comment-26541 Does TiVo really get a cut from any of the TiVoCast shows? I have a hard time believing Rocketboom or Cranky Geeks or any of these TiVoCast shows are paying anything for the "privilege" of being on TiVo, esp. since they know that most TiVo users can and do use podcasts. TiVoCast is a convenience; it isn't something most people are going to be willing to pay for when free podcasts are available. Does TiVo really get a cut from any of the TiVoCast shows?

I have a hard time believing Rocketboom or Cranky Geeks or any of these TiVoCast shows are paying anything for the “privilege” of being on TiVo, esp. since they know that most TiVo users can and do use podcasts. TiVoCast is a convenience; it isn’t something most people are going to be willing to pay for when free podcasts are available.

]]> By: Nick Dynice http://daledietrich.com/imedia/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/comment-page-1/#comment-1328 Nick Dynice Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:15:52 +0000 http://daledietrich.com/imedia/2006/12/05/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/#comment-1328 If TiVo could change their business model into just making boxes (or at least just accept that as part of their model), this might work. I think the reason they want to cut deals with content makers is because they are used to some sort of revenue stream in the from of subscriptions to TV programming info. If they make you pay, they can be the gatekeeper to the content and give a cut to the content makers. If they let anyone subscribe to any feed and the same user does not care to record regular TV, all they really need to do is make a "dumb box." I think they may be better of just allowing users to use the TiVo as a dumb box since that is what some users may want. If they don't someone else will come along (Apple iTV) and make that happen. I don't really watch TV, but I do watch video podcasts. If TiVo allows me to download any video podcast I want, I'll buy one today (I may be in the minority). If TiVo could change their business model into just making boxes (or at least just accept that as part of their model), this might work. I think the reason they want to cut deals with content makers is because they are used to some sort of revenue stream in the from of subscriptions to TV programming info. If they make you pay, they can be the gatekeeper to the content and give a cut to the content makers. If they let anyone subscribe to any feed and the same user does not care to record regular TV, all they really need to do is make a “dumb box.”

I think they may be better of just allowing users to use the TiVo as a dumb box since that is what some users may want. If they don’t someone else will come along (Apple iTV) and make that happen. I don’t really watch TV, but I do watch video podcasts. If TiVo allows me to download any video podcast I want, I’ll buy one today (I may be in the minority).

]]> By: n.sputnik » Blog Archive » TiVo and Video Podcasts http://daledietrich.com/imedia/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/comment-page-1/#comment-1323 n.sputnik » Blog Archive » TiVo and Video Podcasts Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:24:14 +0000 http://daledietrich.com/imedia/2006/12/05/tivos-evan-young-discusses-the-details-of-the-new-tivocast-service/#comment-1323 [...] Update 1/4/2006 TiVoCast announced. [...] [...] Update 1/4/2006 TiVoCast announced. [...]

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