{"id":20,"date":"2004-11-27T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2004-11-27T20:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=20"},"modified":"2004-11-27T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2004-11-27T20:38:16","slug":"freevo-is-looking-better-and-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/27\/freevo-is-looking-better-and-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Freevo is looking better and better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, I was impressed by how well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tivo.com\/0.0.asp\">TiVo<\/a> was courting consumers by lowering their price and marketing to busy people rather than to couch potatoes.  But my opinion has changed greatly now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/ptech\/11\/26\/tivo.surrender.ap\/index.html\">TiVo is going to allow pop-up ads<\/a> while users are fast-forwarding through commercials.  This makes TiVo look like a shill for the television industry and advertisers, and will likely anger many of their subscribers.  It has certainly annoyed me.  I think tech-savvy people will increasingly look towards creating their own open source versions of DVRs, like <a href=\"http:\/\/freevo.sourceforge.net\/\">Freevo<\/a>, while potential consumers will be turned off from subscribing.  I hope TiVo remembers who it should be designing its services for and decides to rethink these popup ads.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, I was impressed by how well TiVo was courting consumers by lowering their price and marketing to busy people rather than to couch potatoes. But&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-our-digital-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}