[mythtv-users] re:MythTV production run

[mythtvyahoomike at hotmail.com]

If we believe the DVR market would be huge , would it be big enough for a
few companies to survive, instead of just for Tivo ?   Look at DVD/VCR
products, there are about a dozen makers, with different price tags.  Would
all consumers pick up Tivo just  because it's $50 cheaper than other
products?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vladimir Shved" <vshved at logistic-systems.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] re:MythTV production run


> Well Tivo's hardware is only 150$ now, providing hacking service for free
> guide would be more profitable? I think it's going to be very hard to
> compete with 200$
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mike Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:46 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] re:MythTV production run
>
>
>
> The DVR market is growing rapidly.   Guys here are talking about selling
> 1000 units, which is really a small number.   How does the future look
like
> if a startup company could find big investment money, sell a product based
> on mythtv, design specialized hardware to reduce cost to around $200,
> provide reliable EPG data,  just compete with Tivo?   I expect the number
of
>
> sold units would be tens of  thousands a year, maybe millions a few years
> later.  The company could live without charging monthly fee to get more
> customers by charging more for hardware instead.
>
> The only difficulty seems to be writing drivers for specialized capture
> card/mpeg encoder/mpeg decoder, which should be done in about 1 man-year.
> For stability consideration, many  features could (should?) be removed
from
> mythtv.  Even so, an overhaul on mythtv would take about 5 man-year or
maybe
>
> less?   So the financial  requirement is not that high either.    Ok,
Cable
> companies would not allow you to advertise mythtv, like what happened to
> Tivo, but there are many other ways to advertise like
> newspapers/radio/mails/.... When the startup company is small, the big
> companies would not bother to sue you.
>   Any other major hurdles for a startup company?  Anyone interested in
this
> topic?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
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