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’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.
This isn’t too much of a surprise – DirecTV still supports UltimateTV boxes that haven’t been made for many years. But this will allay concerns that anyone should have in purchasing a TiVo over the home-grown R15 that DirecTV has released.
In any event, it’s nice to have a firm commitment in place, and some guarantee of a revenue stream for TiVo.
2 replies on “TiVo and DirecTV Commit for 3 More Years!”
So does this mean that Directv DVR customers are going to start getting some of the newer Tivo functionality? I’m tired of hearing about all the cool new stuff on Tivo and not getting on my Directv DVR!
Yeah! I just added 500 hours to my old DircTV tivo combo and was afraid I’d have to lose all those movies in order to continue to use tivo. Now I just have to pray my hard drive holds up.