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08-27-2006, 02:58 PM
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formerly TiVoOpsMgr
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TiVoOpsMgr -> TiVoStephen
Hi folks,
After seven-and-a-half years in my role of Service Operations at TiVo (first manager, and later director), I have changed roles this week. I am still in Operations, and I still report to the VP of Operations, but my focus is now on expanding our TiVoCast operations.
TiVoCast (also known as CDS, or Content Download Service), as many of you may know, is our ability to let you download content directly to your TiVo DVR. Today you may be familiar with our Rocketboom and CNet offerings. In the past we've offered feature length movies (such as Red Trousers), and several sports events.
TiVo Inc. has big plans for the future of TiVoCast, and I'm proud and happy to be part of those plans.
I'm sad to give up my staff of hard-working program coordinators, program managers and data analysts who work on such operational areas as software releases, service availability, internal apps (including our financial systems and service monitoring systems), and external tools (such as TiVo Central Online, Manage My Account, and Rewards). But I'm very excited to work on this innovative service area that helps differentiate the TiVo service and will (I'm very sure) prove to be an extremely popular TiVo feature.
Because of my change of focus, I will unfortunately not have as much time to help out folks on the forums here. I've requested a user name change (thanks David) to help in that transition. After six years of being registered as TiVoOpsMgr, you now see me as TiVoStephen.
But don't worry, I love the forum and all you guys too much to disappear completely, so I'll still be around. If there are operational issues, I'll bring them to the attention of the new director of operations or other relevant folks. I'll still chime in where I can. But I have less time available to personally intervene on individual cases. (TiVoJerry is of course still available.  )
Thanks for your attention, and I look forward to six more years on the forums with you guys.
Best regards,
Stephen
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08-27-2006, 03:01 PM
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I think many here would agree that you focus all your time on the TiVoCast
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08-27-2006, 03:07 PM
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Howdy!
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Congratulations, Stephen! Best of luck with the new position!
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08-27-2006, 03:13 PM
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Congrats on the promotion!
... and why just six more years? 
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08-27-2006, 03:21 PM
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I figure six more years before I post again like this. At that time, I expect to post here saying that it's been 12 good years so far and I look forward to 12 more.
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08-27-2006, 03:27 PM
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a new avatar
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Originally Posted by TiVoStephen
After six years of being registered as TiVoOpsMgr, you now see me as TiVoStephen.
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here's a new avatar for you:
congratulations!
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08-27-2006, 03:30 PM
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Congratulations!
I'm glad they picked such a capable person to head up this stuff!
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08-27-2006, 03:33 PM
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Congrats Stephen!!
Go to Vegas and ride the Bigshot in celebration!
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08-27-2006, 03:34 PM
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Congrats!
So... you're the one to complain to about the "Heavy" downloads being about a month behind in any sort of relevance? The jokes would be funny... about a month ago. I've never visited their website but it's pretty clear the TiVo content is 'stale'.
Get to work!
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08-27-2006, 03:42 PM
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Congrats on the new gig.
But I've got to tell you Stephen, I have really high expectations for you in your new role. Heavy and Navy football haven't done it for me. Get us some Hollywood level VOD/PPV please and soon.
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08-27-2006, 03:57 PM
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I'm looking forward to new HDTV content -- delivered via the Internet--- on TivoCast for the Series3.
I almost never bother with the existing content because it looks so bad on my large screen.
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08-27-2006, 04:55 PM
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Congratulations, Stephen!
I'm sure you will excel at your new gig!
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08-27-2006, 05:34 PM
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Thanks for the kind words.
Please keep the comments and suggestions coming!
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08-27-2006, 05:46 PM
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well then I have always pictured the possible TiVo download content in a web page or HME app queue and I can order then around as needed and then there is some download mechanism like a season pass - the old keep until I delete or Keep until space needed and keep at most 5 etc..
that would add even to the limited content of rocketBoom and so forth in that I would see what was suppossed to download and have some control over it.
Then of course if we had a premium subscription to a load of movie content that used that queue would just be heaven
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08-27-2006, 06:31 PM
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Stephen - thank you for all the support in the past and for many many times "walking the extra mile" for users !!
TiVo has made a very good decision!!
Michael
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08-27-2006, 07:00 PM
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Best of luck Stephen! Thank you for your support in the past - I was very impressed.
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08-27-2006, 07:02 PM
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Congrats Stephen.
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08-27-2006, 07:14 PM
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Why don't they hire someone to be in charge of the S3 release? Slap a couple HD tuners in a box and ship the damn thing.
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08-27-2006, 07:31 PM
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Why don't they hire someone to be in charge of the S3 release? Slap a couple HD tuners in a box and ship the damn thing.
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08-27-2006, 07:40 PM
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Best wishes Stephen. TiVo is the only product I own in which I can identify the people who have made it. The next year should be very exciting with new services, cable companies licensing TiVo software and the S3.
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08-27-2006, 08:28 PM
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Congratulations, Stephen!
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08-27-2006, 08:33 PM
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Why don't they hire someone to be in charge of the S3 release? Slap a couple HD tuners in a box and ship the damn thing.
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How old are you?
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08-27-2006, 09:36 PM
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Congratulations, Stephen.
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08-27-2006, 09:55 PM
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Congratulations Stephen!
You need to indocrinate your replacement to jump in here. :-)
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08-27-2006, 10:13 PM
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Congrats Stephen ... your participation here has been greatly appreciated. I hope you'll continue to participate here and keep us up to date on TivoCast, which I hope will be the next big thing for Tivo.
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08-27-2006, 10:17 PM
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Old enough to reply to this:
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Seriously, who cares about downloaded videos in SD? What is so hard about releasing an HD TiVo? Is anyone in charge of that project? It took 5 years to make an SD box with two tuners. At this rate, the Series 3 will come out just in time for HDTV phase-out.
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08-27-2006, 10:26 PM
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Seriously, who cares about downloaded videos in SD? What is so hard about releasing an HD TiVo? Is anyone in charge of that project? It took 5 years to make an SD box with two tuners. At this rate, the Series 3 will come out just in time for HDTV phase-out.
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Septembet 17th, going by other threads. ;-)
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08-27-2006, 10:40 PM
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Way to go, dude. Don't be a stranger
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08-27-2006, 10:58 PM
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Will the TivoCast be primarily aimed at the Series 3 units, with their mpeg4 capability?
The few attempts at longer content shows that Tivo did make for the Series 2's, seemed to result in not much activity there after. Not sure if that was because content partnerships fell through or the determination that mpeg2 is just to large to fit down those darn tubes.
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08-27-2006, 11:53 PM
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The few attempts at longer content shows that Tivo did make for the Series 2's, seemed to result in not much activity there after. Not sure if that was because content partnerships fell through or the determination that mpeg2 is just to large to fit down those darn tubes.
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Well, the good news is that the 'tubes' keep getting fatter with cable modem speeds getting bumps, FIOS, faster DSL, and fixed wireless in some areas - with WiMax on the horizon. And downloadable MPEG-2 files can have higher compression for a given quality because they can use multi-pass, professional encoders.
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