I especially do not like this line:
If TiVo's Net strategy takes off, the company still has a chance as a stand-alone player. That's a sobering thought for the TV giants and studios. In fact, given the disruptive potential of TiVo, maybe one of the titans will spend a few hundred million to buy it after all -- if only to kill it.
I have a DirecTV TiVo, it's a watered down version of the real TiVo but I sure do love it. It definately changes the way you watch televsion, at our house, we ended up watching less. Fast Forwarding through commercials is fantastic.