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Two days post launch and the dust has begun to settle. At the risk of having to rename the site The Incomplete TiVo (TM Pending) , we’re posting another TiVo item for your reading pleasure.

Now the TiVo critics would argue that TiVo and Seven barely raised any dust when they launched the TiVo on Monday. Certainly tech blog Gizmodo didn’t bother hiding its lack of excitement when it posted it’s coverage: TiVo Gets Announced… Does Anybody Care? Apparently not if the Gizmodo readership (or more accurately the ones willing to post) are any indication, however as one dissenting pro-TiVo poster, Ben Anderson noted “TiVo was never intended for the tech-minded on a gadget website”.

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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Tivo is readying to launch in Oz with a keenly-priced subscription deal. How keenly priced? How does free sound? Sure, there’s no such thing as a free HD PVR, and the price of the recorder is likely to be a little higher than it might have been, had the Tivo/Channel Seven/Unwired consortium been able to sign you up to an on-going monthly subscription to access the Electronic Program Guide.

Now, the epg is the life blood of the Tivo (and any other DVR for that matter). Without it, it’s only slightly more useful than a doorstop. Sure, you’ll have great picture quality, but you’ll be managing your recordings as effectively as your old VCR could manage, which is to say not at all. The epg was something any Tivo buyer would have had to pony up for no matter how reluctantly. Without it, the whole purchase would be a little pointless. Yet it was always going to be a hard sell. Sure Foxtel charge an on-going subscription, but you do however get additional programming above and beyond the offerings of the free to air broadcasters.

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