I dont think this really matters because they losing plenty of customers were i live because they cost to damn much for half the channels Directv offers. It dont make any sense to up your premium channels every 3-6 months and remove half of them in the process. The tivo feature is nice but wouldnt make go back to being a customer when Directv offers more channels with the same features if not more. The only bonus for them is On-demand but still not enough to switch back.

You can keep direct tv I am happy in my area with Comcast and I already have Tivo which I got a unit from them just for the cost of shipping. Noway would I go get it from the cable company I rather own my own equipment and hope soon we will be able to own our cable boxes as well. Its all a racket for any of these types of companies.

I've got a Comcast DVR right now. It's pretty good, especially the dual-tuner model, but I'd go for the TIVO-based one if it has more features. This is a big plus for TIVO, as I don't see how they could stay in business without making deals with cable or optic fiber phone companies. (Satellite TV will never be a major player, because it can't compete with cable/FIOS Internet upload speeds, which so many people need for P2P file sharing, lol.)

Well whatever works for them.