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...each user. Yet the percentage of viewers signing up for the pricey $61-per-month premium service is in slow decline relative to those committing to the $19 basic service. BSkyB hopes to offset this in part by pushing its high end Sky+ service, in which it sells a TiVo-like "personal video recorder" for $322 to subscribers. But sales of Sky+ have crawled along. There are other threats, too. BSkyB lacks the technological goods to deliver what soothsayers believe to be the next big thing in television: video-on-demand (VOD), a service that allows viewers to select from...
...increasingly vulnerable as the only big network that wasn't aligned with a studio. NBC, for example, was bracing for a rumored $550 million demand from Universal this season for its Law & Order franchise. Meanwhile, advertising revenues were hobbled by a pallid economy and ad-zapping devices like TiVo, making sales of movies on DVDs and at the box office that much more attractive...
DIGITAL VIDEO PLAYERS Now that the digital music player has gained mainstream acceptance, daring manufacturers are trying their luck with digital video playback devices. Think of it as TiVo on the go. Plug it into a cable box or VCR to record shows, then watch them wherever. The 20GB Archos AV320 ($600) started the ball rolling, and the next heavy hitter could be RCA's RD2780 Lyra A/V Jukebox ($449), left, due in October. The heat is on as versions of a joint design by Intel and Microsoft, above, are slated to be produced and sold next year by Samsung...
...dying to find out about the next big thing (witness the special gatefold in this issue). After all, Americans like things, and Americans like big. But why, in this age of too little time and too many distractions, should we care so much about next? My nightstand, desktop, TiVo menu and mental to-do list are still full of last big things I never got around to--The Hulk, Friendster, hot yoga (or, for that matter, cold yoga)--and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff. For the average person with an actual productive job, keeping up with...
While it should nab its millionth customer by year-end, Tivo is not the market leader--EchoStar's Dish Network has more than 5 million customers. But like another consumer darling, Apple computer, TiVo has popular, sexy products. TiVo's best asset, though, is Ramsay. On the day of the "devil" panel, he proved he was unflappable and more than convincing: another panelist, then president of digital media for NBC, now works for him. --By Laura A. Locke/San Francisco