I'm probably a bit late with this one, as I've noticed several reports on my travels, but TiVo has announced that it plans to enter the Chinese market later this year. 2. Yeah, the TGC box at CES physically looked like the older 2xx series US boxes - grey-black, not like the newer nightlight or S2DT boxes. I posted the photos. It is advertised as single-tuner, but it had the Ethernet port in the same location as the new S2DT. So the S2DT could be an evolution of that design, or it may just share some of the background work.
3. Considering that the asian market is heavily slanting towards IPTV and not the traditional RF distribution, it will be interesting to see if TIVo gets any traction.
they could make an IPTV stb...
Posted at 2:10AM on Jun 17th 2006 by michael
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1. TiVo partially owns/controls a company called TGC (for TiVo Greater China) which has been running for awhile now. Several months ago they launched a box and service in Taiwan. The recent news is about them expanding into mainland China. Not sure what their goals are, but you're right the Chinese consumer market seems to be growing quickly. A few of us have speculated on the TGC hardware being similar to and/or a precursor to the US DT box. Megazone saw it in person at CES.
Posted at 3:25PM on Jun 14th 2006 by Dave Zatz