Definitive?
I started writing about the DVR concept about 6 years before TIVO was
introduced. I even worked with some of the folks who started TIVO.
The DVR was the OBVIOUS result of two technologies from the IT industry:
1. High capacity hard drives which are now giving way to solid state storage;
2. Digital video compression.
By 1995 we were editing broadcast quality video on our PC based Non-Linear
editing systems.
The reason that TiVo did not launch until 1999 was purely economic - the cost
of the drive and the MPEG-2 decoder. And the industry that drove this was cable
and DBS, not TiVo, which is why the company never really lived up to the hype...
The reality is that TiVo was an intellectual property play - they were able to
license some of the underlying technology to the industries that actually
deployed millions of DVRs.
Regards
Craig
On Apr 8, 2019, at 10:08 PM, Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://onezero.medium.com/they-thought-it-was-black-magic-an-oral-history-of-tivo-7503d0ada8e0
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