For the second year in a row, TiVo's made Wired News's top 10 list of vaporware, or products that have been promised but have yet to arrive.Last year, TiVo made the list for its Series3 HD-capable unit. To be fair, TiVo had made it clear by the end of 2005 that the Series3 would be out in 2006, and while it's been widely panned for its high price, a number of retailers have offered decent sales bringing the price at times below $600. And it it one heck of a PVR.
This year's vaporware product: TiVoToGo for Mac. Sure, there's a third-party workaround for anyone trying to copy TiVo recordings to a Mac. But TiVo has been promising an official solution for ages. In fact, TiVoToGo for Mac was mentioned in last year's vaporware list as well.
Wired also gives an honorable mention to TiVo's partnership with Comcast, which has yet to yield a Comcast PVR unit running TiVo software, although there's reason to believe that this could actually be coming in 2007.
What PVR related vaporware have you been waiting for?
1. BeyondTV + Beyond Media integration.
I ended up finally biting the bullet this year by switching to SageTV last month. I was a BTV fan for 4 years.
Posted at 10:25PM on Dec 27th 2006 by Jeremy